The Peer-2-Peer View on IT and the Sharing Economy - Sustainable Brands


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The Peer-2-Peer View on IT and the Sharing Economy
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Getaround, which enables people to rent cars from people nearby, allows users to grant and gain access to idle cars through mobile phones - letting users share assets regardless of geographic location. This intersection of sharing and technology has ...

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Book Your Perfect Escape With GBP 25 Off Car Hire on the Last Day of Holiday ... - SYS-CON Media (press release)

Book Your Perfect Escape With GBP 25 Off Car Hire on the Last Day of Holiday ...
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WOKING, UNITED KINGDOM -- (Marketwire) -- 05/24/12 -- To mark its 25th anniversary, Holiday Autos is offering all customers GBP 25 off car hire in all destinations for an exclusive 24 hour period. Concluding a bumper 25th anniversary sale that has run ...

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Moody's upgrades DTAG rating on news of new rental car locations - Tulsa World

Moody's upgrades DTAG rating on news of new rental car locations
Tulsa World
Dollar Thrifty's openings of three new airport rental car locations help prompt an upgrade from research firm Moody's. Courtesy By DR STEWART World Staff Writer Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group Inc. recently received a ratings boost from Moody's ...

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Renting Your Car To Total Strangers Could Be Quite Lucrative - Business Insider


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Renting Your Car To Total Strangers Could Be Quite Lucrative
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The way peer-to-peer car sharing works is simple—owners with a vehicle that is not being used at times can register their car in an online marketplace, where approved drivers can rent them at hourly, daily and even weekly rates.

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Who's liable in the share economy? - GigaOM

Who's liable in the share economy?
GigaOM
8, 2012, 11:45am PT 3 Comments Updated: The tragic story, reported by The New York Times's Ron Lieber last month, 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 ...

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Somebody Likes Zipcar - DailyFinance

Somebody Likes Zipcar
DailyFinance
Fans of the auto-sharing service would normally object to being lumped into the same group as traditional car rental agencies, but there's no point in looking a gift horse in the mouth. Besides, Hertz and Avis have been making inroads into Zipcar's ...

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How to rent out your life - MSN Money

How to rent out your life
MSN Money
Rentalic, SnapGoods, Rentabilities and Zilok are among the sites that connect people who want to rent stuff with people who have stuff for rent. RelayRides and Getaround, which are peer-to-peer car rental sites. Unlike Zipcar, a car-sharing service ...

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Has Facebook Ruined Silicon Valley? - Slate Magazine

Has Facebook Ruined Silicon Valley?
Slate Magazine
For instance, the fact that you can now look up real folks online is essential for startups that want us to share resources—services like Airbnb, which allows you to rent out your apartment to strangers, or the peer-to-peer car-sharing site RelayRides.

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Up-and-Comers - Forbes


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Up-and-Comers
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Instead of easy car rentals, her San Francisco-based startup,Getaround, allows peer-to-peer car sharing. She'd noted that the average driver only used his or her car 8% of the time, leavingit idle—often in pricey parking. Now, with a smartphone app, ...

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Discounts on Car Hire Still to Be Had as Holiday Autos Silver Anniversary Sale ... - SYS-CON Media (press release)

Discounts on Car Hire Still to Be Had as Holiday Autos Silver Anniversary Sale ...
SYS-CON Media (press release)
WOKING, UNITED KINGDOM -- (Marketwire) -- 05/22/12 -- One in four (26%) family holidays get off to a bad start because of arguments about the amount of luggage parents take, according to research from the UK's leading leisure car hire broker, ...

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