Strategic Sharing: Zipcar Leads $13.7M Investment In Campus Car-Sharing Startup Wheelz
February 22, 2012 – 8:25 am | No Comment

Well, you have to hand it to the strategy team over at Zipcar . Arguably the largest on-demand car-sharing network, Zipcar went public last year and not long after saw its market cap cross $1 billion . It’s since fallen back, and with collaborative consumption and the market for car-sharing heating up, the big players have to make moves. Zipcar has since forged a partnership with Ford, making it the largest provider of cars for Zipcar’s University program , and, in December, the company took a controlling stake in Spain’s largest car-sharing network, Avancar . Today finds Zipcar making another strategic move to get its mitts in fellow car-sharing companies, again with a focus on universities, whose students are among the most eager adopters of car-sharing models. What do I mean? The company today announced that it is a lead investor in the $13.7 million series A financing of Wheelz , a junior, university-focused version of itself. The Detroit-based Fontinalis…

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New One Laptop Per Child uses John Lennon

Submitted by admin on February 1, 2010 – 8:13 amNo Comment

I saw this ad for One Laptop for Child, and I couldn’t help but wonder how appropriate it is to use a deceased person’s image to advertise, even if it is for a charity.

Does anyone think that it is odd that One Laptop per Child is using John Lennon, who died a decade before the Internet was even brought to the public? I wonder what Paul and Ringo are thinking about this. I also wonder if Yoko had any say in this.

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