Thursday, September 20, 2018 - 1:04pm

AuSM Staff

Carvana has entered the Big Apple, its largest market to date. The online used-car retailer announced Thursday that it has launched as-soon-as-next-day vehicle delivery in New York City, and car shoppers in the city can now shop Carvana.com's over 10,000 vehicles and schedule free vehicle delivery, all... Read More

Wednesday, September 19, 2018 - 12:10pm

AuSM Staff

Podium has been named to Forbes’ 2018 Cloud 100 list, which is made up of a group of 100 private cloud companies from across the globe that lead their industries in revenue, sales growth, valuation and culture. In its third year, the list of top 100 private companies in cloud computing in the world is published by... Read More

Tuesday, September 18, 2018 - 1:56pm

AuSM Staff

With dealer groups in mind, Spireon has made updates to its Kahu connected car solution that are aimed at helping multi-store dealers improve inventory management, facilitate trades and increase visibility concerning activity outside of the lot. Spireon announced Tuesday that it has made enhancements to Kahu to... Read More

Tuesday, September 18, 2018 - 10:55am

AuSM Staff

Another startup launched this summer now has a tool designed to give both potential buyers and dealers insight about how retail prices are behaving up and down car rows and beyond in California. On Tuesday, newcomer CarlStreet announced the general beta availability of its CarlStreet Real-time Market Value (RMV)... Read More

Tuesday, September 18, 2018 - 10:34am

AuSM Staff

Faraday Future (FF) has appointed a new vice president of product, technology and intellectual property (IP) strategy who has previously spent time at both Tesla and Apple. The company announced Monday that it has chosen to bring aboard Jeff Risher to lead FF's IP strategy and patent portfolio efforts. He... Read More

Monday, September 17, 2018 - 5:18pm

Joe Overby, Senior Editor

In an early meeting between the companies, the management at Lithia Motors posed this question to the co-CEOs of Shift, an online automotive marketplace: “Since all this stuff is so good and it works so well, what’s preventing you from scaling this thing quicker?” The answer Lithia got back... Read More

Monday, September 17, 2018 - 11:20am

AuSM Staff

An acquisition that first came to light back in July came to fruition late last week. CDK Global announced that it has received all customary regulatory approvals and has completed the acquisition of ELEAD1ONE, a leading provider of fully integrated customer relationship management software solutions for automotive... Read More

Monday, September 17, 2018 - 11:14am

AuSM Staff

Dealership inventory managers who are interested in honing their car-buying, car-pricing and car-merchandising skills can look forward to two days of training hosted by Lotpop and co-sponsor Strong Automotive Merchandising next month.  Lotpop announced Monday that it will host its first Dealer Workshop on Oct.... Read More