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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Facebook arms up: buys over 750 patents from IBM
March 23, 2012 – 8:15 am | No Comment
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Home Is Where The Mobile Game Is: 96% Play Games In The House, 53% In Bed
March 22, 2012 – 8:39 am | No Comment
Home Is Where The Mobile Game Is: 96% Play Games In The House, 53% In Bed The magic of mobile games is that they can be played anywhere, but it turns out that quite a lot of us are more than happy to play them when not on the move, according to a new survey from mobile entertainment portal MocoSpace . Taking in responses from some 15,000 U.S. consumers, the company found that 96 percent of them said that they play mobile games at home at least once a day, and among those, 53 percent said they played them in bed — with ...
iPad Sales May Reach 66 Million In 2012
March 20, 2012 – 12:36 pm | No Comment
iPad Sales May Reach 66 Million In 2012 Following Apple’s announcement yesterday of the new iPad’s record weekend, which saw 3 million devices sold in three days, analysts are upping their predictions for the tablet’s market share growth over the course of the year. In a note to investors, Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray says the firm is now forecasting as many as 66 million sales of the new device in 2012, up from the earlier prediction of 60 million. Meanwhile, Shaw Wu of Sterne Agee is now predicting 60 million, up from 55 million. Regardless ...
FreedomPop’s New iPhone Case Promises Users Free Wireless Data
March 20, 2012 – 12:36 pm | No Comment
FreedomPop’s New iPhone Case Promises Users Free Wireless Data Skype founder Niklas Zennstrom’s new FreedomPop project was initially shrouded in secrecy, but they’ve recently become a bit more talkative about how the company plans to offer “free wireless broadband” to their customers. FreedomPop CMO Tony Miller spilled the beans about the company’s WiMax-based freemium wireless data service to Forbes , but left yet another question unanswered — what’s the “innovative” new wireless device they’ve got in the works? Well, according to a high-level source inside FreedomPop, it’s an iPhone 4/4S case… with an integrated WiMax radio. ...
Windows 8 on Track for October 2012 Release
March 20, 2012 – 3:21 am | No Comment
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6waves Lolapps Sheds Most Of Its Development Team To Focus on Publishing Games
March 19, 2012 – 7:28 pm | No Comment
6waves Lolapps Sheds Most Of Its Development Team To Focus on Publishing Games 6waves Lolapps , the social gaming company that was formed out of a merger just half a year ago, shed most of its employees on the development side today to focus on publishing other studios’ titles. The decision today seems to undo some of what that merger agreement created last July and we hear it had to do with a limited runway of cash. Last summer, social gaming company Lolapps merged with game publisher 6waves to form a new entity that was a dual producer and publisher. They ...
Apple Will Tell Us Monday How It Plans To Use Its $100B In Cash
March 18, 2012 – 8:54 pm | No Comment
Apple Will Tell Us Monday How It Plans To Use Its $100B In Cash Everyone has been wondering what Apple will do with its outsized cash reserves — currently at just under $100 billion. Tomorrow the company will hold a conference call to tell the world what that will be. “Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO, and Peter Oppenheimer, Apple’s CFO, will host a conference call to announce the outcome of the Company’s discussions concerning its cash balance. Apple will not be providing an update on the current quarter nor will any topics be discussed other than cash,” read a release from the ...
Samsung Galaxy S III Press Shot Leaked
March 18, 2012 – 4:02 pm | No Comment
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Uber Giveaway: TWO Asus Transformer Primes to Win!
March 18, 2012 – 4:01 pm | No Comment
Uber Giveaway: TWO Asus Transformer Primes to Win! There’s nothing like a great giveaway to conclude a week and we’ve partnered with NVIDIA to give away Asus Transformer Prime tablets to TWO lucky winners. Each Transformer Prime will come with a keyboard-dock that not only turn this device into a small laptop, but it nearly doubles the battery life as well. At its core, the Asus Transformer Prime is powered by NVIDIA’s Tegra 3, the world’s first mobile quad-core chip, ...