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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What is this mysterious Motorola Android device?
January 28, 2010 – 1:17 am | No Comment
What is this mysterious Motorola Android device? Hello, gorgeous. Big ups to whoever convinced Mr. Blurrycam to take a leave of absence so the gadget loving world could get a decent spy shot of this unannounced Motorola Android device. The guys at mobile.cz somehow managed to scrounge up this shot, and they’re calling it the Motorola “Zeppelin”. I’ll make a hat out of thumbtacks and eat it if that ends up being the name Motorola sells it under, but at least we’ve got something to call it in the mean time. According to the ...
Google to Developers: “Have an Android phone, please make games”
January 22, 2010 – 6:12 pm | No Comment
Google to Developers: “Have an Android phone, please make games” The iPhone is indisputably on top of the mobile gaming heap, and even relative small fries like Palm are getting serious about it, but Google’s plan for this year’s Game Developers Conference marks one of their first steps towards making Android the next big platform for games on the go. Sure, they’ve committed to offering a number of sessions on Android game development, and members of the Android team will be on hand to answer questions, but we both know that’s not why you’re reading this. You ...
Lumpy Motorola MOTOROI Will Be Released Worldwide In March [Phones]
January 19, 2010 – 5:28 am | No Comment
That lumpy Android MOTOROI phone from Motorola that was only supposed to launch in Korea WILL actually be released worldwide, according to executives. And very soon too, we hear, with March being the proposed month. [Korea Herald - Thanks Cliff_Dangers!]
Resistive screens are dead: HTC now selling a stylus for capacitive screens
January 17, 2010 – 9:39 pm | No Comment
Resistive screens are dead: HTC now selling a stylus for capacitive screens When it comes to touchscreens, you just can’t beat the feeling of a nice, high-quality capacitive screen. If you’ve been using an iPhone, Motorola Droid, or any one of many capacitive smartphones made in the past few years, try to hunt down one with a resistive screen; the difference is almost shocking. Touches to a capacitive touchscreen are registered with the lightest tap, while moving things around on a resistive screen requires you to press down so hard that people probably think you’re angry at it. Of ...
Sprint Nextel drops Motorola Brute on unsuspecting public
January 12, 2010 – 1:24 am | No Comment
Sprint Nextel drops Motorola Brute on unsuspecting public Oh Nextel. The insults continue. First, your service continues to hemorrhage users, and now you get subjected to phones that look like the Motorola Brute. It’s almost enough to make me feel a little sorry for you. The Brute i680 is an iDEN compatible, Mil-Spec phone, which explains its striking appearance. It’s actually designed to be resistant to dust, shock, vibration, moisture, solar radiation, and pretty much anything else you can think of to throw at it. Unlike most Nextel phones, it’s also got a few newer ...
Analysis: iPhone’s touchscreen slightly better than Droid, Nexus One and Droid Eris
January 9, 2010 – 9:54 am | No Comment
Analysis: iPhone’s touchscreen slightly better than Droid, Nexus One and Droid Eris To be honest, I don't really care which is the better smartphone (or super-duper phone ): the iPhone 3GS , the Motorola Droid , HTC's Droid Eris , Google's Nexus One , Nokia's N900 or the Palm Pre . It's just great to witness this seemingly never-ending advancements in mobile technology, both on a hardware and software level, and to see increased competition drive innovation at such rapid pace. Just compare the market today to five years ago, and you can't help but be amazed by how ...
Leaked: The Motorola Mirage might just be the best Android phone yet
January 2, 2010 – 7:54 pm | No Comment
Leaked: The Motorola Mirage might just be the best Android phone yet Oh, Android – how good you have been for Motorola. It was only months ago that they were teetering on the edge of obscurity; one 350-person Android task force later , they’ve got the most popular Android handset in the lands and are being name dropped on a nearly daily basis around the rumor mill . A Chinese leakster managed to get his mitts on this (confusingly obscured) shot of an unreleased Motorola handset, and was nice enough to share it with the world. According to the ...
Six New Years Resolutions For Apple And The iPhone In 2010
January 1, 2010 – 9:13 pm | One Comment
Six New Years Resolutions For Apple And The iPhone In 2010 Last night, as we waited for Carson Daily to tell us that it was time to make a lot of noise, I found myself laying on my buddy’s lawn with glass number one-too-many of something toxic in my hand. As I stared up at the stars, I pondered something I’d imagine most of the country was pondering as well: Does Steve Jobs make New Years Resolutions? I mean, really; outside of continuing to kick cancer’s ass and perhaps expanding his wardrobe, there’s probably not much that needs resolving in El Jobso’s ...
Motorola to launch 2 Android handsets at CES, says some dude
December 30, 2009 – 2:01 pm | No Comment
Motorola to launch 2 Android handsets at CES, says some dude I usually avoid posting rumors started by analysts, because it seems like most have the batting average of a dizzy, blindfolded toddler. Alas, with CES just days away, everything worth writing about is being kept under tight lock and key; at this point, any big leaks would be like somebody ruining a surprise party by shouting “THERE’S A SURPRISE PARTY IN THERE” as the special guest walks up the driveway. Global Equities Research analyst Trip Chowdhry,who at least has some sort of ...
Motorola to show “whats next” at CES
December 24, 2009 – 2:46 pm | No Comment
Motorola to show “whats next” at CES The rumor mill has been cranking way too hard over Motorola as of late for us to feel confident in taking a stab at what they may launch, but Motorola has just more or less confirmed that they’ll be launching something at CES. Got any guesses as to what it is? Drop it in the comments. We’ll come back on January 7th, run through all of them, and pick someone at random from those who got it right and send them a ...