People my age are driving less than they ever have before. Sometimes I want a car, but that's partly because car-sharing startups haven't yet taken off in my neighborhood.…
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The web sharing economy is booming in the crowded streets of Paris
The web sharing economy is thriving in the heart of Paris due to the crowded streets, and perhaps something a little more intangible in the Parisian culture.…
Read MoreHow car/ride-sharing companies stack up against each other (chart)
As our growing population competes for resources and space, car sharing may become more prevalent. We looked at how some of the biggest car- and ride-sharing companies that operate in the U.S. compare with each other.…
Read MoreHow RelayRides is making money from long-term car sharing
Peer-to-peer car sharing startup RelayRides tells us that long-term sharing -- over days, weeks and months -- makes up the bulk of their sales. Is this an emerging trend for this nascent service?…
Read MoreRelayRides buys up car sharing startup Wheelz for the tech
Peer-to-peer car sharing company RelayRides has bought up startup Wheelz, partly for its automated system that lets users easily unlock and drive away in a car without having to get a key from the owner.…
Read MoreUpdate: Google expands venture fund to $300 million
Google has expanded the size of Google Ventures's annual fund from $200 million to $300 million annually, which will allow the firm to expand the scope of its deals and increase its presence as a major venture capital firm since its founding in 2009.…
Read MoreGM opens up OnStar with peer-to-peer car sharing service
The around 6 million subscribers to GM's OnStar connected car service can now rent out their cars to other drivers via a deal between the auto giant and peer-to-peer car sharing startup RelayRides. The partnership was announced back in October of last year.…
Read MoreWho’s liable in the share economy?
The tragic story in which a man rented a car in Boston via peer-to-peer car sharing company RelayRides and wound up seriously injuring four people while losing his life, raised a familiar question for the share economy: Who’s responsible?…
Read MoreZipcar backs peer-to-peer car sharing startup Wheelz
Will car sharing pioneer Zipcar move into the emerging industry of peer-to-peer car sharing, or enabling neighbors to rent out other neighbors' vehicles? Well, Zipcar hasn't launched such a service, but it's invested in one of the new peer-to-peer car sharing startups Wheelz.…
Read MoreWhy Google ditching its clean power research isn’t a big deal
Despite Google shutting down its clean power philanthropic initiative, Google still remains committed to clean power in several ways far more important, which have represented the bulk of Google's work with energy.…
Read MoreThe economics of peer-to-peer car sharing
Peer-to-peer car sharing has emerged in select cities as a way for car owners to rent their vehicles to people in their neighborhood. But are car owners, drivers or the companies making money? The key will be that the economics pan out for everyone.…
Read MoreToday in Green IT: The Q3 Numbers
The third quarter's numbers are out from the Green IT section of GigaOM's research subscription service GigaOM Pro. Solar is struggling, while IT-based systems like car sharing are soaring. Dig into the details with us.…
Read MoreA cheat sheet of peer-to-peer car sharing players
Two peer-to-peer car sharing startups have launched in the Bay Area in recent months (there's at least five here now), and there's four peer-to-peer car sharing companies in France. Here's my cheat sheet of a dozen companies offering websites to facilitate car sharing among neighbors.…
Read MoreGM partners with RelayRides for car sharing
Auto giant GM is making its first move into car sharing by partnering with San Francisco-based peer-to-peer car sharing startup RelayRides, using its communications system OnStar. RelayRides also says it is in advanced discussions with GM about an investment.…
Read MoreWheelz: Car sharing for campuses
The peer-to-peer car sharing space is getting crowded. On Wednesday a startup called Wheelz launched at Stanford University with the idea to bring student-to-student car sharing to campuses.…
Read MoreIt’s official: Car sharing reduces vehicle ownership
While many of you know this to be anecdotally true, here's an official study on the trend: According to the University of California Transportation Center, car sharing leads to the reduction of personal vehicles owned.…
Read MoreTake our poll & share your views on AirBnB, other web-sharing startups
There's been an explosion of interest in web-sharing services, a growing movement of lending and bartering services that create economical and sustainable consumption methods. Take a few minutes to tell us how you feel about this movement in our new survey, and maybe even win prizes.…
Read MoreThe web-sharing economy and its biggest risk
The Airbnb horror stories that have emerged in recent days expose the biggest pain point for the economy that has built up around using the web to share "stuff," from apartments to cars to tools: security.…
Read MoreThe collaborative home: an infographic of web sharing
Ownership is old-school. The folks at Collaborative Lab have put together this infographic and startup list to highlight all the innovation that is happening around using the web to share "stuff."…
Read MoreHow the web and mobile can help with the full planet problem
The problem of feeding and providing energy to 9 billion people by 2050 will require many technology solutions. But in a unique way, the web and mobile can act as a sort of operating system for physical stuff, leading to more efficient use of resources.…
Read MoreGoogle Has Now Invested Over $400M in Clean Power
Mark down yet another clean power project that Google plans to back. This morning, Google announced that it's providing $55 million for part of the construction of a 1.5 GW wind farm being built by Terra-Gen Power in Southern California's Mojave Desert.…
Read MoreVIDEO: How Zipcar’s IPO Will Affect P2P Car Sharing
Zipcar's stock is still flying high after the car sharing company debuted on the Nasdaq last month. To the CEO of neighbor-to-neighbor car sharing startup RelayRides, Shelby Clark, Zipcar's IPO has shown investors that there's real money to be made in car sharing.…
Read MoreStartups Take Sharing Beyond the Sandbox
As kids, we were all taught to share our favorite toys. At Green:Net Shelby Clark from RelayRides and Joe Gebbia from Airbnb talked about how their companies are leveraging the power of social media to take sharing into the grown-up world.…
Read MoreZipcar Soars in Nasdaq Debut
Combine a year in which IPOs are back and car sharing is hot and what do you get? A smash hit success. Zipcar's stock debuted on the Nasdaq Thursday at an eye-opening $30 per share, up over 60 percent from its offering price of $18.…
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