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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A Web Of Apps
December 30, 2011 – 6:15 pm | No Comment
A Web Of Apps It is remarkable to think that we’re in the early days of the app era, when there are already close to 600,000 iOS applications and nearly 400,000 on Android (source: Distimo ). The growth of these app ecosystems has been rapid, exponential and shows no signs of slowing down. As well it shouldn’t: the untapped, addressable market for mobile apps involves hundreds of millions of users. And yet, app discovery remains a challenge. Whether in an app store, on the device itself , or via a third-party service. ...
The Gizmon iCA Might Be The Ultimate iPhone Camera Case
December 30, 2011 – 12:09 am | No Comment
The Gizmon iCA Might Be The Ultimate iPhone Camera Case There are iPhone cases and then there are…more iPhone cases. There are probably close to a gazillion different iPhone cases available now. But none are as elaborate as the Gizmon iCA — at least none I have seen. The case — if you call it just a case — is made of 32 different polycarbonate parts, it features a conversion lens mount with additional optional lenses, and adds a working shutter button and optical viewfinder. There is even an optional faux pancake lens for additional street cred ...
‘Twas The Night Before Christmas (Revisited)
December 26, 2011 – 5:27 am | No Comment
‘Twas The Night Before Christmas (Revisited) ‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not an ultrabook was whirring, not a touchpad nor mouse . The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, With hopes they were stuffed with Thunderbolt MacBook Airs . The children were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of Galaxy Tabs danced in their heads. And ma in her ‘kerchief, and I with my apps , Had settled our texting thumbs for a long winter’s nap. When out on the lawn there arose such ...
Swype gets a new beta, adopts Dragon Dictation for speech to text (video)
December 25, 2011 – 1:07 pm | No Comment
Swype gets a new beta, adopts Dragon Dictation for speech to text (video) Look, either you love or hate Swype -- there's just no two ways about it. Those that can't imagine life without the gesture-based virtual keyboard will probably only fall deeper in amour with it when greeted with the latest beta. Eagle-eyed observers might notice the microphone key in that image above has been replaced with a tiny flame logo that should be familiar to any fan of Nuance's voice-to-text apps. Swype now has Dragon Dictation baked ...
Last-Minute Gift Guide 2011: iOS Apps
December 24, 2011 – 9:03 am | No Comment
Last-Minute Gift Guide 2011: iOS Apps Looking for a quick last-minute gift? Not feeling up to fighting the holiday traffic, crowds and checkout lines? Just too lazy busy to shop? Then you may want to consider giving the gift of an iOS app. You can gift any paid app from iTunes on your computer or from the app’s description page on your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. Just scroll down past the screenshot and look for the “gift this app” button. All you’ll need is the recipient’s email address to complete the transaction. This ...
Siri, What Were Your Top 5 Hacks And Mods Of 2011?
December 24, 2011 – 9:03 am | No Comment
Siri, What Were Your Top 5 Hacks And Mods Of 2011? 2011 saw the rise and fall of Siri. What was initially hailed as something just short of the savior of mankind turned out to be a limited voice control system . Apple insists Siri is still a beta product. They say it will get better. But some out there couldn’t wait for Apple. And so, with a little imagineering, people made Siri do all sorts of unconventional tasks in 2011. These hacks led to her opening beer, playing the piano, and even warning owners about what’s on ...
SigFig Shows Its iOS-Owning Investors Big on AAPL, Its Android-Owning Ones Not So Big On GOOG
December 15, 2011 – 11:48 pm | No Comment
SigFig Shows Its iOS-Owning Investors Big on AAPL, Its Android-Owning Ones Not So Big On GOOG A study by investment analysis startup SigFig suggests that iPhone-owning investors are 20% more likely than the average investor to also own Apple stock, while investors with Androids are 25% less likely to own Google than average. This is just one startup’s limited data, so don’t get all excited and assume that this is the case worldwide. But still, it makes for an entertaining look at just how loyal those Apple fans are. SigFig gets the data from its Wikinvest site, which tracks $20 billion in investments. ...
Google Zeitgeist goes live, reminds the world of Rebecca Black’s existence
December 15, 2011 – 1:12 pm | No Comment
Google Zeitgeist goes live, reminds the world of Rebecca Black’s existence How will people remember 2011? As the year of Rebecca Black, if the results of Google's Zeitgeist list are to be believed. The momentarily famous "Friday" singer topped Google's annual year-end list of hot search terms, followed by the software giant's own Google+ social network and deceased Jackass star, Ryan Dunn. The top five is rounded out by the acquitted Casey Anthony and the ultra-hot FPS, Battlefield 3. Apple made three appearances in the top ten, courtesy of ...
Microsoft And Nokia Team Up To Take Back The Low End
December 14, 2011 – 11:55 am | No Comment
Microsoft And Nokia Team Up To Take Back The Low End Say a prayer for Android. Nokia’s new Lumia 710 Windows Phone, a $49 smartphone aimed at the feature-phone set, is about to change the way carriers sell – and customers see – cellphones. Forget LTE, dual cores, and all that flummery. Microsoft and Nokia are essentially buying a few million people stuck in the 20th century a new cellphone and they’re doing it in a way only the world’s two finest proprietors of technology to the masses could. On the surface, the Lumia 710 is redolent of ...
Hitachi outs a pair of 4TB HDDs for your storing pleasure
December 13, 2011 – 1:16 am | No Comment
Hitachi outs a pair of 4TB HDDs for your storing pleasure We here at Engadget believe that, while keeping data in the cloud is certainly convenient, one can never have too much local storage space. Hitachi shares our enthusiasm for commodious HDDs, and has rolled out a pair of 4TB drives to keep all your movies, music, and photos close to home. For those wanting to up the ante in their desktop machine, the Deskstar 5K4000 should do the trick with a SATA 6Gb/s connection and 32MB buffer. Its ...