Greg Spencer | October 18, 2019 | Automotive, People on the Move
Twelve-year Cox Automotive veteran Chris Benvie (LinkedIn profile) has joined automotive marketing firm Octane as senior vice-president of sales. Benvie is tasked with bringing Octane new clients and building up the company’s sales team across the U.S. At Cox,...
Greg Spencer | October 18, 2019 | Recruitment
LinkedIn has filed for a review of a landmark appeals court decision last month that sided with a company that’s been scraping user information from LinkedIn against its wishes. A three-judge panel on the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals made the decision in favor of...
Ben Salisbury | October 18, 2019 | Automotive
British auto search site Carsnip has launched a market update report, which is now available to all dealers. The free report, called “Mind The Gap,” compares the top 10 customer searches for used cars, as measured by advert clicks, with adverts listed on...
Ben Salisbury | October 18, 2019 | Automotive
British vehicle remarketing company BCA has introduced live bidding for cars on its buyer app. The app is used by over 50 percent of BCA’s dealers to manage stock and to purchase new cars. The changes mean that dealers can now buy cars immediately at e-auctions by...
Ben Salisbury | October 18, 2019 | Real Estate
eXp, a U.S.-based real estate brand, is launching in the U.K. as an agency-owned, cloud-based platform. The new outpost will be led by Adam Day, the founder of Hatched, an online real estate agency that shut down in Sep. 2018. In June, eXp announced that it would...
Luigi Serenelli | October 18, 2019 | Real Estate
Swiss real estate portal Homegate.ch has ended its business agreement with fellow real estate portal RaiffeisenCasa. Homegate, which is owned by Tamedia, is undergoing a strategic reorientation of its business. RaiffeisenCasa has continued to offer to customers real...
Tariq Ahmed Saeedi | October 18, 2019 | Recruitment, People on the Move
Leading Japanese crowdsourcing company Crowd Works Inc. (TSE: 3900) has appointed four executive officers. The new hires will focus on designing products that eliminate human resource mismatches. Founded in 2011, Tokyo-based Crowd Works owns and operates a freelancer...
Nicole Iman | October 18, 2019 | Automotive
Drivehub, a Thailand-based car rental marketplace, has announced its intention to expand into other Southeast Asian markets after growing its presence across 33 locations in Thailand. The company broke even this year after receiving a cash injection of $1 million U.S....
Nicole Iman | October 18, 2019 | Automotive
ICar Asia, a leading auto marketplace that operates in Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia, announced strong financial performance in the third quarter of this year. The company is on track to break even on earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization...
Tariq Ahmed Saeedi | October 18, 2019 | Automotive
Leading Japanese autos marketplace Goo-Net.com has upgraded its car repair shop finder to allow vehicle owners to take quotes for repair work, book an appointment and purchase spare parts online. The smart reservation service is an extended feature of GooPit, a car...
Andrzej Sowula | October 18, 2019 | Recruitment, People on the Move
Tadeusz Kuropatwiński has joined Agora’s recruitment site GoldenLine as its new CEO. The company also appointed several other staff for various management positions. Kuropatwiński (LinkedIn profile) takes over from Maciej Nowak (LinkedIn profile), who has left the...
Ben Salisbury | October 17, 2019 | Automotive
Automotive software company Reynolds U.K. Automotive will team up with CarGurus to provide an improved lead management system for dealers. The new service allows customers to register their interest in a vehicle for sale on the CarGurus website. This automatically...
Nicole Iman | October 17, 2019 | Marketplaces
Leading Southeast Asian marketplace, Carousell, has announced William Ip as its managing director for Hong Kong. This marks the seventh senior hire for the Singapore-based company this year, following the hire of a head of cars in the Philippines, a new CTO and a...
Ben Salisbury | October 17, 2019 | Automotive, Marketplaces
“Go to a dealer and trade in your old car and lose on average 30 percent of its value or go to a marketplace and take care of the transaction yourself, with associated risks,” said Fabio Pinto, co-founder and CEO of CarFlix.com.br. “You don’t have another option. That...
Prabhu | October 17, 2019 | Marketplaces
General marketplace Quikr has posted $65 million U.S. in revenues for H1 of this year. The Bengaluru-based company is currently valued at INR 10,832.15 crores ($1.5 billion US), according to LiveMint. The company’s valuation is based on an independent report...
Ben Salisbury | October 17, 2019 | Automotive
Santander Consumer Finance (SCF) has released an end-to-end online loan application product for car dealers. The company’s new ‘Apply Online’ feature has been in development for nine months and recently finished a pilot launch with retailers. The product is now...
Tariq Ahmed Saeedi | October 17, 2019 | Real Estate
AtHome.co.jp, the No. 3 real estate marketplace in Japan in terms of traffic, has launched a new property vertical, Kokuyuzaisan.Akiya-AtHome.jp. The new vertical will sell state-owned properties and vacant homes through a bidding process. AtHome was established in...
Tariq Ahmed Saeedi | October 17, 2019 | Marketplaces
Yahoo Japan Group (Yahoo.co.jp), a joint venture between Yahoo in the United States and Japanese telecom operator SoftBank, has launched a new generalist marketplace app, PayPay. The app will allow users to buy and sell a wide range of second-hand stuff. Since its...
Cila Warncke | October 17, 2019 | Real Estate, People on the Move
Spanish real estate rental portal SpotAHome.com has hired Alan Burns as its chief financial officer, starting in January 2020. Prior to joining the rental portal, Burns (LinkedIn profile) was CFO of PhotoBox for eight years. His previous experience includes Expedia...
Angela Hawksford | October 16, 2019 | Recruitment
Professional networking site LinkedIn has launched a new “LinkedIn Events” feature that allows members to create, share and discover networking events in their local area. LinkedIn said it developed the feature after its own data showed people were 2.5 times more...
