On Thursday, which was Data Privacy Day,  Privacy4Cars founder Andrea Amico joined the Auto Remarketing Podcast to discuss the top data privacy concerns in automotive, including how dealers and auto auctions may be impacted. Amico shared his advice for the industry and how his company is helping auto auctions scrub personal data from vehicles set to be remarketed.  […] [Read More]

Wall Street news updates recently are filled with discussions about how social media triggered significant spikes in a couple of particular stocks. However, investment in the automotive industry continues to chug along with two developments involving a luxury OEM and a start-up in the vehicle-transport space. On Friday, Porsche Ventures announced that it has completed […] [Read More]

Carsharing marketplace HyreCar said its new and expanded strategic partnerships announced Thursday can provide infrastructure and capital that will allow the company to enter the next level of growth and scalability. The formal partnerships are with automotive mobility fleet manager, AmeriDrive Holdings, and Cogent Bank’s specialty lending unit. HyreCar, a carsharing marketplace for ridesharing, food, […] [Read More]

Electronic vehicle title and registration technology firm DDI Technology has expanded its electronic title and registration product offering into Indiana as an authorized partial service provider of electronic title & registration and salvage title processing services. DDI said that through Premier EVR, it will provide a secure, web-based software system allowing Indiana dealers to electronically submit vehicle […] [Read More]

CDK Global has introduced an open, intelligent data platform that can turn high volumes of industry information into easy-to-understand, actionable insights for dealers, OEMs and third-party software developers. Called Neuron, the platform is connected to the Fortellis Automotive Commerce Exchange, which connects software developers, OEMs and dealers. Using an analytics engine powered by artificial intelligence and […] [Read More]

Georg Bauer and Scott Painter worked together at Fair. And now Bauer and Painter are collaborating again with NextCar Holding Co. (NXCR). The fintech firm, which has a mission to create a platform that enables vehicle subscriptions to scale profitably, announced on Wednesday that Bauer joined NXCR as co-founder, president and vice chairman of the board […] [Read More]

A new player has emerged in the competitive landscape of automotive research and classifieds sites. CarEdge.com has completed Phase I of its vehicle research and listings website, saying that the new version of the site features vehicle cost analysis on more than 250 vehicle models from more than 30 vehicle manufacturers. The analysis includes resale values, […] [Read More]

Lexus has chosen connected car platform Dealerware to join a group of software vendors to power its newly reimagined Lexus Customer Convenience System. Lexus’ approval of the Dealerware platform follows a nine-month pilot program in which multiple Lexus dealerships increased fleet utilization rates by as much as 18%. In the pilot program, those dealerships also […] [Read More]

Jessica Stafford, senior vice president of consumer solutions at Cox Automotive, is back on the Auto Remarketing Podcast  to discuss the company's new Complete Retail solution that launched Monday. It's a new end-to-end digital retail experience today that Cox Automotive says can “bring every step of the car-buying journey and every part of the deal […] [Read More]

Making another marquee move to begin 2021, Cox Automotive has launched a new end-to-end digital retail experience today that it says can “bring every step of the car-buying journey and every part of the deal process together — start, flow, sign and close.” Complete Retail, which is the first Cox Automotive-branded end-to-end retail solution, implements […] [Read More]