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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NVIDIA considers external graphics accelerators

Submitted by admin on February 8, 2010 – 6:42 pmNo Comment

80cebbff75al gpu.jpg NVIDIA considers external graphics accelerators

For years, NVIDIA has kept eye on the potential of external graphics accelerators, although nothing concrete is mentioned just yet. Many questions still need to be answered including whether the size of its target market is large enough to make such a venture feasible. While there are many scenarios to be considered, we think that the market is effectively very small. The Future of portable computing is definitely not adding stuff via an external PCI-E bus. If NVIDIA sees an market opportunity, it can deliver a product very quickly, after all external GPUs are just like PCI-E based ones. Would you get one and at what price?

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