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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Samsung Smart TVs arrive in the US
March 7, 2012 – 10:26 am | No Comment
Samsung Smart TVs arrive in the US Samsung Electronics has just announced that their range of 2012 Smart TVs will start to ship from March onwards Stateside, starting with the LED 6-series and above, in addition to the company of the Plasma 6-series and above. This would make them the fifth generation of Smart TVs from South Korean conglomerate Samsung, where among the features that can be found across the board include improved picture quality with Micro Dimming Ultimate and Black Pro, a dual-core processor (yes, TVs now ...
Samsung VP Eric Anderson On The Future Of Smart TVs [TCTV]
March 7, 2012 – 6:07 am | No Comment
Samsung VP Eric Anderson On The Future Of Smart TVs [TCTV] Today at Samsung’s media event in NYC , I got the chance to chat with VP of Content and Product Solutions, Eric Anderson, on the future of Smart TVs. The company just recently released a number of new Smart TV offerings equipped with what Samsung is calling Smart Interaction — the ability to control the TV through voice and gestures. And while this is sure to wow consumers, Samsung is far more concerned with what it will mean for the company once these Smart TVs infiltrate the ...
Dear Aunt TUAW: Help me de-install Pogoplug
March 6, 2012 – 1:09 pm | No Comment
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Apple prepares Yerba Buena for the iPad 3 launch
March 4, 2012 – 6:30 pm | No Comment
Apple prepares Yerba Buena for the iPad 3 launch The iPad 3 launch event might be a few days away, but it looks like Apple isn’t wasting any time in getting the venue ready for the long-awaited occasion. According to a report from Macstories.net, Apple has already started dressing up the exterior of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. The décor doesn’t provide any direct clues to what the next iPad will be like, but the Apple logo over ...
Three Free Healthcare Apps That Empower Patients
March 4, 2012 – 10:46 am | No Comment
Three Free Healthcare Apps That Empower Patients Editor’s Note: Iltifat Husain is the founder and Editor-in-chief of iMedicalApps.com , a physician-operated technology review publication and is currently an Emergency Medicine resident physician at Wake Forest University’s School of Medicine. The significant adoption of smartphones among physicians has not only led to an explosion of medical apps aimed at healthcare providers, but it has also cultivated an emerging trend of health and wellness apps aimed at empowering patients. While great innovation is happening in the health and wellness mobile ecosystem, it’s difficult for patients and ...
Five apps to entertain and educate your toddlers
March 4, 2012 – 10:46 am | No Comment
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Smartphones spread out: Pew says 46 percent of US adults now own one
March 3, 2012 – 9:19 am | No Comment
Smartphones spread out: Pew says 46 percent of US adults now own one Our master plan is slowly working, and soon every man and woman in our great nation will own a smartphone. Pew Research Center reports that just under half of adult Americans, or 46 percent, own smartphones currently, meaning that smartphone owners now outnumber their feature phone counterparts by five percent. Pew polled multiple demographics to get its numbers, and there was growth across the board over ...
Apple Inc., Made In America
March 3, 2012 – 5:42 am | No Comment
Apple Inc., Made In America There are two sayings on the back of every Apple product: Designed By Apple in California and Assembled in China. These statements attempt to say that even though the products might be assembled in a different country, Apple is an American company — a fact Apple proclaimed loudly today with a new web page titled Creating jobs through innovation. Apple has been under fire lately regarding its overseas manufacturing partners. Apple hired the Fair Labor Association to conduct voluntary audits of the final assembly partners, including Foxconn’s ...