VehicleXchange LLC announced Monday that it has added automated GM Financial pre-qualification capabilities to its service lane lead solution. The tool, launched by Pearl Technology Holdings in January and otherwise known as “VX,” now allows dealers to pre-qualify customers through GM Financial within seconds. The VX system utilizes pre-screening technology from Experian to allow dealers […] [Read More]

CDK Global chief executive officer Steven Anenen will step down from his leadership post on June 30, the company announced, and taking on the CEO role will be Brian MacDonald, a current member of CDK’s board of directors. The company laid out its leadership transition plan in a news release on Friday, explaining that MacDonald will […] [Read More]

A new online vehicle broker service has recently hit the Web, and the inspiration for the new company stemmed from frustration with the current car-buying process. KosLo’s chief executive officer and founder Devin Koskan may not have a background in the auto industry — but he has, of course, purchased vehicles before, which helped spark […] [Read More]

Fans of piloting the Mercedes-Benz GLA in Nintendo’s “Mario Kart 8” can now continue dodging shells in another of Nintendo’s titles, “Super Mario Maker.” This free addition to “Super Mario Maker,” in the form of a special costume (Mario driving a GLA) and a custom-designed special event course in the game, is the latest in […] [Read More]

Cox Automotive’s Dealer.com announced Wednesday it has joined with Yahoo and Bing for their respective partner programs. Dealer.com today joins the new Bing Ads Elite SMB Partner Program, which the company says is for Bing business partners who have proven and trusted expertise in driving growth to both small- and medium-sized businesses via the Bing […] [Read More]

Analytics company CarStory has notched a patent for its CarStory Market Reports’ technology. CarStory parent company Vast.com Inc. has been awarded U.S. Letters Patent no. 9,104,718, titled, Systems, Methods and Devices for Measuring Similarity of and Generating Recommendations for Unique Items. The newly patented technology works to automatically compute similar alternative choices from a pool […] [Read More]

As announced last week, automotive companies will soon have three more domain extensions to choose from when crafting their Web presence: .cars, .car and .auto. The domains are being launched by Cars Registry — a joint venture between domain companies XYZ and Unregistry. To get some insight into what this means for dealers, Auto Remarketing reached […] [Read More]

Cox Automotive sees all kinds of customers pouring into its online portals — from dealers in the auction lanes to potential buyers considering a vehicle purchase. Open source technology solutions provider Red Hat highlighted on Tuesday how Cox Automotive deployed three major tools — Red Hat CloudForms, Red Hat Gluster Storage and Red Hat Enterprise […] [Read More]

Less than two months after being purchased by Raycom Media, there’s more news coming out of PureCars. This time around, the automotive digital advertising platform unveiled an Inventory Targeting feature that lets dealers take their daily inventory data and use it to allocate digital advertising spend. Through this solution, which is within PureCars’ SmartAdvertising platform, […] [Read More]

Auto Auction Services Corp.’s AutoIMS has announced a new Sale Calendar module that  allows the consignor users of AutoIMS.com a quick-glance view of recent and upcoming auction sales. It also allows for AutoIMS users to utilize the new tool's “Sale Snapshot” feature, which shows the run-versus-sold percentage for each recent auction. “The feedback on this […] [Read More]