Plenty of big names are set to report their earnings in August, including the country's largest cable and satellite television providers, several of China's leading dot-coms, radio giant Sirius XM, car rental companies Zipcar and Avis, and the two biggest video game developers.
Zipcar members in San Francisco, Portland and Boston can try out Toyota's Prius plug-in hybrid, providing valuable info to Toyota before rolling the cars out to consumers in 2012. And Zipcar gets another way to make its greenhouse-gas- conscious customers happy.
Zipcar's 400,000 customers -- its "zipsters" -- have earned it $131 million over the past decade. That sounds like a nice success story, and its upcoming IPO seem like a good buy. But under the hood, that hip Zipcar stock looks a little more like a lemon.
Car-sharing company Zipcar has filed for an initial public offering worth as much as $75 million.
