With growing awareness and popularity, the car sharing market has recently witnessed the arrival of several P2P services like RelayRides, Getaround and Sprideshare and Jolly Wheels.

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His rationale: since BT is spyware-free, relatively easy to use and decentralized, it avoids most of the problems that plagued the original Napster, Kazaa and other P2P services.

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In fact, we believe these new P2P services could be more complementary and encourage more people to consider car sharing programs over car ownership in dense urban population, which in the end could help Zipcar.

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However, the membership-based car-sharing company now faces new competitors from up and coming low-cost, P2P car sharing services like RelayRides, GetAround, Sprideshare and Jolly Wheels.

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Despite its initial success, Zipcar, the membership-based car sharing company now faces new competitors from up and coming low-cost, peer-to-peer (P2P) car sharing services like RelayRides and GetAround.

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Over one-third of Americans are now registered as self-employed, becoming small businesses in a P2P economy of professional services and retail, or sub-contractors in growing sectors such as healthcare and data collection and analysis.

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With this in mind, experts say, banks would be crazy not to start offering their own peer-to-peer payments services as soon as possible to grab a slice of the P2P pie.

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Stephanie Point, CEO of Point 2 Point Global Security, (P2P) prides herself on her highly trained teams who provide customized security services to protect people and assets for both private companies and government agencies.

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