Sharon Hill | September 15, 2014 | Automotive
While he won't be an executive there, former AutoTrader.com and Kelley Blue Book president and CEO Chip Perry has joined the board of AutoTrader UK, according to...
Sharon Hill | September 15, 2014 | Automotive, Marketplaces
A little over a month after contracting with the National Education Association, vehicle marketplace TrueCar has signed an agreement that keeps the 30 million...
Sharon Hill | September 13, 2014 | Automotive
OpenBay, the auto-service marketplace platform for Boston.com, was just honored by the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council as the year's top innovator in...
AIM Group | September 11, 2014 | Automotive, Real Estate
Dave Shefferman, who was Director of Product Management, Data Operations and Development at Trulia for nearly four years, has returned to the auto industry. He's...
Sharon Hill | September 11, 2014 | Automotive
Edmunds.com's Lot Buddy and Build & Compare mobile tools, rolling out September 17, were announced at the grand opening of the listing giant's Detroit, Mich....
AIM Group | September 10, 2014 | Automotive, Real Estate, Marketplaces
Berlin-based e-commerce and classified startup incubator Rocket Internet hopes to raise €750 million ($970 million U.S.) in an initial public offering by the...
Emmy Abdul Alim | September 09, 2014 | Automotive
Malaysian company Advertising.MY will launch a new auto classifieds site auto.com.my in October. The URL is currently a news and info site on all things...
Cila Warncke | September 06, 2014 | Automotive
Auto classified Coches.com is using big data to promote new car sales during the traditional late-summer slump. The Spanish site gathers proprietary information...
Sharon Hill | September 06, 2014 | Automotive, Marketplaces
Venture-capital-funded Beepi auto marketplace, a Bitcoin merchant, has expanded beyond the San Francisco Bay area to offer online auto sales in Los Angeles as...
Sharon Hill | September 05, 2014 | Automotive
A study of car shoppers commissioned by Cars.com determined that consumers want to be in total control of their shopping experience. Half of the participants said...
Sharon Hill | September 04, 2014 | Automotive, Marketplaces
Internet Brands, publisher of CarsDirect, RacingJunk.com, ApartmentRatings, WikiTravel, DentalFind.com and many others, has added yet more automotive sites by...
AIM Group | September 04, 2014 | Automotive
The A.H. Belo Corp., McClatchy Co., Tribune and Graham Holdings will all have good financial results during Q4 of this year, if all goes according to plan with...
Sharon Hill | September 03, 2014 | Automotive
VinSolutions, part of the dealer-software division of the new Cox Automotive has promoted two key executives. Here's the announcement: Cox Automotive Announces Key...
Sean Hargrave | September 02, 2014 | Automotive
The Daily Telegraph is to rebrand its print motoring section Cars to keep it inline with its digital section. The move, reported in The Drum, will take place on...
Sharon Hill | September 02, 2014 | Automotive, Marketplaces
Carvana, the online marketplace that lets consumers purchase a vehicle start to finish on the Web, has just added Charlotte, No. Carolina to its Atlanta and...
Sharon Hill | August 28, 2014 | Automotive, Marketplaces
AutoTrader Group has been one of the most acquisitive of automotive service providers, with the flagship AutoTrader.com enhancing its own consumer search and...
Don Gasper | August 27, 2014 | Automotive
In a footnote to the earlier report of a new joint venture involving BitAuto Holdings Ltd, Youxinpai (Beijing) Information Technology Co. (UXIN) and Lentuo...
Sharon Hill | August 25, 2014 | Automotive, Marketplaces
Autobytel just announced its collaboration with DriveItNow, to enable a consumer payment conversion tool for prospective buyers. The tool not only helps the...
Sharon Hill | August 22, 2014 | Automotive
On one online automotive community, a dealer posted this notice: "ATTENTION CARS.COM CUSTOMERS: If you received an email asking you to update your account...
Sharon Hill | August 22, 2014 | Automotive, Real Estate, Recruitment, Marketplaces
Each year Inc. Magazine announces its Inc 5000 list of the 5,000 fastest-growing companies. They are determined by three-year revenue growth. Several classified...
Emre Dalkilic | August 21, 2014 | Automotive, Real Estate, Marketplaces
Sahibinden.com, one of the biggest e-commerce platforms in Turkey, is the country's most admired brand in the categories real estate and automotive, according to...
Sharon Hill | August 21, 2014 | Automotive
Vehicle-valuation marketplace TrueCar poses a real threat to automotive listing platforms such as Cars.com. TrueCar seems to realize that, should Gannett take...
Talal Abu Issa | August 21, 2014 | Automotive
Saudi Arabia's auto market is huge, with annual growth in demand of 30 percent, according to a study conducted by the Council of Saudi Trade Chambers. The market...
Talal Abu Issa | August 19, 2014 | Automotive
Back in 2010 job site Bayt.com launched a general classifieds platform for goods and services on its website under the name Zedeal (at Zedeal.com), to widen the...
Sharon Hill | August 19, 2014 | Automotive, Recruitment, Marketplaces
The 2014 ASBPE [American Society of Business Publication Editors] Awards of Excellence Azbee awards were just announced, with several winners from the world of...
Sharon Hill | August 18, 2014 | Automotive
In its 2014 Automotive Buyer Influence Study, AutoTrader.com researchers determined that social media has little impact on auto sales, and traditional media as a...
Don Gasper | August 18, 2014 | Automotive
Hot on the heels of the launch of a joint-venture e-commerce platform for used cars involving BitAuto Holdings Ltd. and two other Chinese companies, Alibaba Group,...
Christo Volschenk | August 18, 2014 | Automotive
Not many sites around the world start out from day one as “global sites”. More often sites start out with a country, or even a regional focus, and then slowly...
Sharon Hill | August 15, 2014 | Automotive, Marketplaces
Scott Painter, CEO and founder of haggle-free vehicle-purchase facilitator TrueCar, recently told a J.P.Morgan Auto Conference audience that auto dealers are...
Sharon Hill | August 14, 2014 | Automotive, Marketplaces
As the latest of 300 publisher clients of Orlando, Fla. -based Exponent Media Group, The Charlotte (NC) Observer has signed on to grow its automotive listings...
