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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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 ...
Wacom Intuos 5 tablet
March 2, 2012 – 8:53 am | No Comment
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TechCrunch Giveaway: Samsung Galaxy S II, Case, And Gift Card #TechCrunch
March 1, 2012 – 2:37 pm | No Comment
TechCrunch Giveaway: Samsung Galaxy S II, Case, And Gift Card #TechCrunch We have another exciting giveaway for all of you this week. Earlier this morning, Jordan wrote about our friends over at Picksie and the launch of their new Android app. For those who don’t know, Picksie is a location-based app that helps you figure out what fun things there are to do around you. However, you won’t be able to enjoy it without a solid Android phone. With a huge thank you to Picksie, we have a brand new Samsung Galaxy S II to give away, along ...
Windows 8: The Road Ahead
February 29, 2012 – 8:51 am | No Comment
Windows 8: The Road Ahead If Windows Vista was Microsoft’s folly – a mish-mash of ideas not fully baked and aimed at multiple constituencies – Windows 8 is Microsoft’s rebirth. To get to ecstatic about it isn’t quite the direction I’d like to take this mini-review, but let’s just say that Microsoft is on the cusp of getting things right. As we said before, Windows 8 will ruffle a lot of feathers. The first and most obvious comparison is with the new Windows Phone interface. The “Start” menu is gone, replaced by ...
ReportGrid Launches Precog To Help You Turn Big Data Into Smarter Apps
February 29, 2012 – 3:38 am | No Comment
ReportGrid Launches Precog To Help You Turn Big Data Into Smarter Apps Back in October, ReportGrid closed a $750K seed round with investors like Launch Capital, David Cohen, Walt Winshall, Doug Derwin, and Ed Roman — not long after it graduated from TechStars’ summer program in Boulder. The interest in ReportGrid was due to the fact that the company offers data analytics as a service (or DAaaS, if you prefer), providing companies with nifty scalable cloud database and visualization engine. In this way, it’s meant to be a turnkey, hosted alternative for developers to save them from having to ...
A closer look at the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 (video)
February 28, 2012 – 6:29 pm | No Comment
A closer look at the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 (video) The last time we showed you the Galaxy Note 10.1, we had time for a few hands-on shots, but not quite enough to get to know the tablet, to warm up to the idea of interacting with one of our favorite 10-inchers using a stylus pen. Now that we've had a chance to park ourselves at Samsung's Mobile World Congress and get acclimated to the various S Pen apps, we wanted to hit back with one more hands-on, this time ...
Nokia Lumia 610 announced
February 28, 2012 – 2:57 pm | No Comment
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Asus Rebrands Its Tablet Line To “Transformer Pads”, Launches The TF Pad Infinity & TF Pad 300
February 27, 2012 – 9:12 am | No Comment
Asus Rebrands Its Tablet Line To “Transformer Pads”, Launches The TF Pad Infinity & TF Pad 300 Once upon a time the Asus Eee brand held some weight. The Eee name debuted with Asus’ netbook line, which nearly instantly set the bar for low-cost, but still quality, computing devices. That’s why the Eee brand was used for Asus’ first tablets. But now, in 2012, with netbooks quickly fading into irrelevance, Asus wisely decided it was time to retire the name. From here on out Asus tablets will be known as Transformer Pads. Along with the rebranding, Asus also used the Mobile World Congress stage ...