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Why That Flat Facebook IPO Isn't So Bad After All
rose by an average 6.6 percent on their debut days. But then came a raft of Internet IPOs last year. In April 2011, Zipcar Inc ., an online car rental firm, rose by more than half on its first day. In July, Zillow Inc., a real estate website
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Driver in NY Bus Crash May Have Been Fatigued
Three days before the accident, Williams rented an SUV from Zipcar , which accumulated 228 miles during his off-duty hours Williams, whom he identified from a picture, and that he drove a Zipcar . Williams also talked frequently on his cellphone while driving
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JetBlue's website is fastest of travel sites, survey finds
Group had the lowest-ranked site, with an average time of 9.728 seconds. •Among car-sharing and rental-car sites, Zipcar had the highest-ranked site, with an average response time of 7.039 seconds. Avis had the lowest-ranked with a response
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City Car: Hiriko Electric Fold-Up Car for Crowded CitiesCityCar Larson said that while the Hiriko may be bought by people who want one, it may be better for the cars to be shared. ( ZipCar , which offers shared cars in major U.S. cities, has been successful, and there are similar programs in Europe.) The
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Peer-to-peer car sharing gains investors, users
Peer-to-peer car sharing differs from Zipcar , the most popular car-sharing company has been around for more than a decade. Zipcar boasts a fleet of cars in 170 cities and fee, and rentals are about on par with Zipcar , which starts at $7.25 hourly. There are
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Gas Prices: Before You Hit the Road for Memorial Day, Check Out These Tips for Saving Cash at the Pumppeople have paid to use their cars, those vehicles are sitting idle, she said. That's where car sharing services such as zipcar come in, she added. The companies allow people in their service area to pay for only the times that they actually need to use
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Ford and Zipcar court college kids with high-tech Focus
Money-losing car-share company Zipcar is putting 1,000 Ford Focus compacts a Ford otherwise. The move also lets Zipcar piggyback onto Ford's growing reputation more like an android or iPhone," says Zipcar CEO Scott Griffith. Zipcar members, called
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Startup Turns Anyone's Car Into Part Of A Zipcar -Like FleetCompanies like Zipcar and Hertz's Connect have proven there price point and needs. In many markets, Zipcar charges an $82-per-day rate in addition available rentals has the potential to make Zipcar 's 8,500 cars look diminunitive. And
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Can Zipcar's stock success continue?
Q: Do you think Zipcar is a good investment? A: Zipcar TICKER:zip investors have piled into the new stock almost brothers can storm into one of the company's rental cars. Zipcar , a leading renter of just-in-time cars for consumers
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Will GameFly ever get out of deep freeze and eventually go public?
eventually go public? That’s a fair question. There have been many IPOs filed after GameFly, which have already gone public. Zipcar TICKER:zip , a car rental service, went public on April 13, 2011 after filing plans for its IPO on June 1, 2010. Given how
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Investors bid up IPOs, such as Zipcar , despite companies' losses
profit. Case in point: Car rental company Zipcar TICKER:zip , which surged 56% Thursday to expect another net loss this year. Zipcar ’s success — it was the second-best IPO Francis Gaskins of IPOdesktop.com. Zipcar ’s gains are extreme even amid a recovery
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An iPhone gets Zipcar drivers on their way
Mass.-based car-sharing service Zipcar this week launched an app that lets you our members," says Luke Schneider, Zipcar 's chief technology officer. "This traffic, roadside assistance and games. Zipcar 's app is the first to control the operation
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Apple unveils iPhone 3GS
said at a presentation kicking off the company's annual conference for software developers. A similar offering came from Zipcar , a company which offers short-term car rentals in metro areas. Can't find your car after it's been parked? Use the iPhone
