Despite Ride-Sharing Regulatory Trouble, SideCar Gets VCs to Invest $10M

At least two investors weren’t fazed by the whole ignoring-a-cease-and-desist-order thing.
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California Sent Lyft, SideCar and Tickengo Cease-and-Desists, but They Continue to Operate

“Our view is we are not offering a transportation charter service, so there’s nothing to cease-and-desist,” said SideCar CEO Sunil Paul.
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Sunil Paul’s SideCar Ride-Sharing App Will Flag a Stranger’s Car for You

After my last meeting on Friday in downtown San Francisco, a stranger pulled up to the curb driving a blue Lexus.
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Forget Cleantech — It’s Cleanweb at SXSW

Can smartphones help save the planet?
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Exclusive: Zynga’s Van Natta Moves to Strategic Adviser; Feld Off Board, Paul In

Big changes at the online social gaming phenom as it gets ready to go public.

Games People Play: Zynga's Mark Pincus Speaks!

Since I posted an interview with Social Gaming Network’s Shervin Pishevar today on the announcement of his $15 million funding, it seems only sporting to post this lively video interview I also did with his main competitor, Mark Pincus of Zynga, recently too. Zynga, named after Pincus’s dog, is one of the two main social-gaming networks that are competing for audience by offering highly interactive games of all kinds. Its aim is to be more engaging and create a series of addictive games that users will return to again and again.
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