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…

Read the full story »
Apple

Latest Apple products news, iPod, iPhone, iTunes, Mac …

Digital Cameras

Digital camcorders, cameras, news and reviews

Gaming

Video games news, reviews, rumors, PS3, Xbox360, Wii, PC, DSi and PSP

Home Entertainment

Latest entertainment technology news, HDTVs, media, audio and video …

PCs

Desktops, data storage, softwares and networking …

Home » Gadgets, Mobile, News

World’s first foldable R/C cars are super-tiny

Submitted by admin on February 1, 2010 – 4:08 pmNo Comment

6bd291240733084.jpg Worlds first foldable R/C cars are super tiny

Finally, Mattel makes foldable R/C cars, just what we’ve always wanted. These Stealth Rides, barely the size of a USB key, come nestled inside a credit card sized remote control. Set to roll out at the Toy Fair in New York next month, the $25 minicars will make their debut on the market in August.

Pushed a button and the tiny flat car unfolds itself from its credit card moorings, turning into something that looks more like a minuscule boat. Mattel plans to roll out five different models of this pocket-sized trinket, and one of them will be the Batmobile Tumbler.

The most remarkable spec: 30 minutes of running time on a charge. We’ll believe that when we see it.

CNN Money, via Autoblog

Related Posts:

  1. EFO rolls out credit card-sized iPazzPort mini Bluetooth keyboard
  2. Accept credit card payments on your iPhone? Then there were two
  3. Ford Adds Google Maps to Sync System [Cars]
  4. Mini Digital Microscope For iPhone 4 Review–Big Zoom, Tiny Package
  5. Kickstarter seeks funds for many Lego bricks to make Super Mario Bros. world 1-1

Leave a comment!

Add your comment below, or trackback from your own site. You can also subscribe to these comments via RSS.

Be nice. Keep it clean. Stay on topic. No spam.

You can use these tags:
<a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>

This is a Gravatar-enabled weblog. To get your own globally-recognized-avatar, please register at Gravatar.