Latest Sharing Stories
Industry and Sharing Economy Leader Accelerates Growth and Fuels Continued Momentum with New Talent, Technology and Resources by Acquiring Wheelz Inc. SAN FRANCISCO, May 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, RelayRides, the nation's largest peer-to-peer car sharing marketplace, announced the acquisition of peer-to-peer car sharing platform Wheelz. Following several months of record growth for RelayRides, the acquisition represents a major consolidation of car sharing marketplaces,...
CHICAGO, Aug. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- New research in the Journal of Marketing published by the American Marketing Association suggests that sharing systems like Zipcar and cell phone minute pools may offer a welcome ownership alternative to cash-strapped consumers. Importantly, results show that consumers evaluate sharing options intelligently, taking into account factors that would change their sharing experience and savings. As a result, sharing offers hope for...
CHARLOTTE, N.C., Feb. 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- AddShoppers launches new social commerce platform that tracks the ROI of social media traffic and significantly increases product sharing, free. Now retailers can put a dollar amount to all types of social sharing. It's simple to identify which social networks are driving the most sales. In addition you can analyze demographics at a product level. For example, Product A might be more popular among males aged 25-34 on Twitter while...
Shared ownership of assets such as planes, boats or homes on the rise; ShareZen provides a streamlined way to manage the details. Bellingham, WA (PRWEB) October 20, 2010 Company founders today announced the launch of ShareZen, an online application that makes it easy for people to manage shared assets by offering them a simple system for scheduling use, tracking shared expenses, keeping up on maintenance and fostering owner communication. The application is currently geared toward shared...
AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- For OEM software developer Blue Peach, sales of its flagship CIFS software stack has been bucking the trends in this tough economic time. To take advantage of some of that growth and to make an even larger impact in the market, Blue Peach will be offering its full featured CIFS network file sharing stack at no charge for a limited time. Blue Peach's Blue Share(TM) CIFS stack is a high performing, small footprint stack designed for embedded platforms...
NEW YORK, June 8 /PRNewswire/ -- TurnTo Networks, a leader in onsite social shopping, today introduced the TurnTo Social Commerce Suite, providing online sellers with next-generation social shopping tools that leverage social networks and customer transaction data to drive sales while protecting shopper privacy. The Social Commerce Suite includes TurnTo Social Merchandising, now coming out of beta and adding a broad range of new features, and TurnTo Social Purchase Sharing, a newly...
From giving directions to a stranger to cooking a meal for loved ones, sharing is an essential part of the human experience. A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research unravels the complexities of sharing and examines how changes in our culture affect sharing."Sharing is a fundamental consumer behavior that we have either tended to overlook or to confuse with commodity exchange and gift giving," writes author Russell Belk (York University, Toronto). In his study, Belk explores...
