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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ZTE’s Smooth takes a hint from Palm

Submitted by admin on February 19, 2010 – 10:17 amNo Comment

f1551a93d9ockoff.jpg ZTE’s Smooth takes a hint from Palm

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, whenever a popular consumer handset comes out, it’s not long after until an Asian company rips it off, producing their own handset. Well, the ZTE Smooth, is no different. As you can see its design closely resembles the Palm Pre but this one is actually running Android 1.6.

In addition to that it features a 2.8-inch touchscreen, GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth and a price tag of about $146.

It just makes me wonder, what do companies like Palm think when they see products like this?

via engadget

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