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Better than Buying: Barter Economy Matures from Niche to Trendtoday. For instance, it seemed logical that the rental car company Avis acquired America's largest car-sharing company, Zipcar , for $550 million last week. Another example is Obi, a German chain of home improvement markets. Under the name MietProfi
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Music Icon Patti Page Dies; Avis Buys Zipcarup in the air. (Photo Credit: sea turtle/Flickr) Avis Buys Zipcar Rental car company Avis is buying Zipcar for $491.2 million. Access to Avis' vehicles would help Zipcar reach high demands on the weekends and car sharing will give Avis
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Markets Surge After Fiscal Cliff Deal
have doubled. Avis Budget Group (Nasdaq:CAR) is buying Zipcar (Nasdaq:ZIP) , the world's leading car sharing network Monday's closing price. The transaction is subject to approval by Zipcar shareholders and is expected to be completed in the spring of
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Election Day 2012 Discounts and Freebies
Facebook page and vote for you favorite fry. You'll get a free coupon for a small fry with any purchase redeemable for today. Zipcar : The company is offering half off hourly rates between 5am and 9pm in their "Zip to the Polls" promotion.
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Election Day 2012 Discounts and Freebies
Facebook page and vote for you favorite fry. You'll get a free coupon for a small fry with any purchase redeemable for today. Zipcar : The company is offering half off hourly rates between 5am and 9pm in their "Zip to the Polls" promotion.
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RelayRides: Rent Your Own Car to Others by Smartphonewhen an hourly car rental is necessary or a last-minute weekend trip beckons. It is reminiscent of the car-sharing service Zipcar , which supplies its own fleet of cars at set locations, but Clark says RelayRides is differentiated by its elements of community
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Renter Nation: Tips for Owners and RentersThere's a new American Dream, and although it may include a white picket fence, it's not homeownership. In the wake of the housing bubble and the recession, more and more Americans are abandoning this traditional goal in favor of renting. The digital age has ushered in a new mentality of
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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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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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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
