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Edmunds.com Buys Hackathon Winner CarCodeSMS

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Los Angeles-based Edmunds.com said Tuesday that it has acquired CarCodeSMS , a developer of mobile service to allow car shoppers to engage in one-on-one text messaging with dealers. CarCodeSMS had won won Edmunds'' second annual Hackomotive challenge last February. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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Edmunds.com Battling Escrow Scammers

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Edmunds.com has been warning of the scams since before April of last year, as scammers began asking victims to use a fake Edmunds escrow service to complete car purchases. Edmunds does not provide any escrow services to users. The fraudulent use of Edmunds.com's name was highlighted in an article from the Los Angeles Times last week.

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Edmunds.com Opens Texting Tool For Free To Car Dealers

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Los Angeles-based Edmunds.com announced Thursday that it will be offering up a free, texting tool available to car dealers, to help those dealers communicate with customers via text messaging. communications dealer automobile sales texting edmunds' READ MORE>>.

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Ten Of The Top Tech Companies For Employees In LA

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Who are the top tech companies to work for in Los Angeles? popped up consistently in an informal (and highly non-scientific poll) of a number of readers, executive recruiters, and others in the Los Angeles area, who cited growth, brand, profitability, and other factors in their suggestions to us of the top companies. Rubicon Project.

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Razorgator Names Technology VP

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Los Angeles-based Razorgator , which provides secondary sports and entertainment tickets online, said today that it has named Ismail Elshareef as the firm's new Vice President of Technology. According to the firm, he was most recently at Edmunds, where he was Director of Front-End Engineering.

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Gina Callari Of RelayCars: Using VR And AR In Automotive Sales

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We also work closely with manufacturers like Kia and Suburu, and work with research sites like Kelly Blue Book and Edmunds, who both utilize our imagery as well. If you've looked for a car, you've come across one of our images. We are across many platforms, and have a whole array of enterprise customers.

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Interview with Tara Weingarten, VroomGirls

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That's something which Los Angeles-based VroomGirls (www.vroomgirls.com) is looking to change--with the backing of sponsors like Toyota, Ferrari, and Lamborghini. We also pass over those things relatively quickly, much quicker than someone at Motor Trend or even Edmunds might.

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