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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. As part of the buy, Edmunds.com said it would make the CarCode service free to all of its franchise partners. READ MORE>>.

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Edmunds.com Battling Escrow Scammers

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Santa Monica-based Edmunds.com is again warning people about a continuing scam where criminals are using official sounding--but fake--escrow services to swindle people out of money. Escrow services are online services which hold money until a transaction successfully occurs, and are heavily used for online automotive purchases.

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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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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. How long has the site been around, and when did it start?

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Curating The Web Using PublishThis, with Matt Kumin

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Right now, it's a manual process--unless you're using the tools from Los Angeles-based PublishThis (www.publishthis.com). We're a content curation platform, software-as-a-service for content, and we are focused on helping companies engage their customer more directly using content. How did you figure out people needed and wanted this?

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