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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Bobby Kotick talks Guitar and DJ Hero, the fall and the coming rise
July 23, 2011 – 3:20 pm | No Comment
Bobby Kotick talks Guitar and DJ Hero, the fall and the coming rise Bobby Kotick earned more than $4.4 billion through Activision Blizzard last year, which means his business success is obvious -- but so are his failures. In an interview with Forbes, Kotick described the downfall of the Guitar Hero and DJ Hero franchises with the kind of detail that can only come from lying awake every night for four years straight, obsessing over what went wrong. "So we bought the company, and after a few iterations ...
Tony Hawk: New game coming next year
April 11, 2011 – 6:26 pm | No Comment
Tony Hawk: New game coming next year We fear that there may be no end in sight for Tony Hawk's long-troubled skateboarding series. Though Activision CEOs announced that 2011 would be the first year without a Tony Hawk game since the dawn of time, Hawk himself told PixelatedGeek in an impromptu interview that "We're actually right in the middle of making a whole new plan right now," when asked whether more Hawk-branded games were in the pipeline. "We're going to do something probably for ...
Guitar Hero and DJ Hero discontinued, your pile of plastic instruments weep
February 10, 2011 – 8:35 am | No Comment
Guitar Hero and DJ Hero discontinued, your pile of plastic instruments weep The era of shredding on fake plastic guitar and spinning a fake vinyl disc with colorful buttons are over. Activision has officially ceased development of future Guitar Hero and DJ Hero games.
New Transformers, Spider-Man and more next year, Activision doing ‘large-scale’ Call of Duty
November 6, 2010 – 1:58 pm | No Comment
New Transformers, Spider-Man and more next year, Activision doing ‘large-scale’ Call of Duty Activision's recent conference call wasn't all facts and figures, you know. The company also outlined the future of some of its biggest franchises over the course of the next calendar year. According to CEO Eric Hirshberg, the publisher will launch titles from "proven franchises including the Hero brand, Spider-Man, X-Men and Transformers, which will be supported by what is expected to be another major blockbuster movie from Michael Bay." ...
Daily Crunch: Facility Edition
June 16, 2010 – 2:21 am | No Comment
Daily Crunch: Facility Edition The CHOBI CAM WP is a cute, waterproof, and (very) small camera Infectious presents community-designed iPad skins that you’ll actually like Nintendo and Activision bring back Goldeneye~! Belkin Conserve let’s you know if you left the refrigerator running, tells you to go catch it Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword announced along with vastly improved Wii interaction Read more crunchgear
Call of Duty: Black Ops set for Nov. 9, 2010
April 30, 2010 – 7:00 am | No Comment
Call of Duty: Black Ops set for Nov. 9, 2010 Your ability to recognize insanely popular brands has likely meshed with your ability to recognize dates, rendering the text in this post rather superfluous. Unfortunately for you, we all get paid extra for using lots and lots of words -- especially ones like "superfluous." Activision has unveiled the official website for Call of Duty: Black Ops, the latest entry from the franchise's alternate developer, Treyarch (they're the ones you haven't ...
Activision exec Thomas Tippl speaks out on current Infinity Ward conditions
April 18, 2010 – 2:31 pm | No Comment
Activision exec Thomas Tippl speaks out on current Infinity Ward conditions Ever since the private relationship between the ex-Infinity Ward heads and Activision management broke down and became a publicly debated matter (through two lawsuits), the state of affairs at IW have been up in the air. Various reports from "sources close to the studio" have arisen at Kotaku, with one alleged insider calling the studio "dead" and another giving a far less grim report. Activision execs, however, ...