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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

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New ideas like Tesloop keep popping up. Lyft Lyft offers rides on two wheels or four and tells you transit options as well If there was any question about the changing landscape, General Motors’ $500 million investment in the ride sharing company Lyft. Investors in RelayRides included Google Ventures and GM Ventures.

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Car Companies Standardize Plug for Electric Vehicles : Gas 2.0

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Car Companies Standardize Plug for Electric Vehicles Written by Jerry James Stone Published on April 19th, 2009 34 Comments Posted in Electric Cars (EVs) , Plug-in hybrid EVs Just a few hours after General Motors called for a standardized EV plug , one has been created! by RSS or sign up by email. About Gas 2.0 on It’s On!

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IBM’s Fall From World Dominance

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Similarly, GE sold off GE Capital for $26 billion after the 2008 finance and banking collapse, which is a far cry from a decade earlier, when it was worth ten times that. And we knew from prior experience that just being generic like that wasn't going to work because your mother and my mother could show up and say, I want cloud computing.

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