8 Articles match "CarsDirect","Technology"

The Latest from the Southern California Tech Central Community

Wednesday, March 17, 2010
And we’re left with a city with idyllic weather, major commerce, the media center of the world, and a great emerging technology scene.  We But we have a great city for building technology companies. You can find very talented technology executives.  But Los Angeles.  People People either love it our hate it.  All
 
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
association with some of the region’s top trade associations/social networking groups and industry hosts, DFR ‘09 promises to be the largest holiday party of the season and help weave our various communities of interest into the larger collective family of professionals working in and around the technology industry. Scott Painter, Founder of CarsDirect and Entrepreneur. Dear readers: We’ve got offers for three different events today — a discount to tomorrow’s Digital Family Reunion , a chance to win a ticket to digiday:APPS next week, and a 50% discount to the new Schmoozd Social Media Mixer .
 
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
association with some of the region�s top trade associations/social networking groups and industry hosts, DFR '09 promises to be the largest holiday party of the season and help weave our various communities of interest into the larger collective family of professionals working in and around the technology industry. Join Scott Painter, Founder of CarsDirect and Entrepreneur. Tell Dear readers: We've got offers for two different event -- a discount to tomorrow's Digital Family Reunion , and a chance to win a ticket to digiday:APPS next week. Read more below for details.
 

The Best from the Southern California Tech Central Community

And we’re left with a city with idyllic weather, major commerce, the media center of the world, and a great emerging technology scene.  We But we have a great city for building technology companies. You can find very talented technology executives.  But Los Angeles.  People People either love it our hate it.  All
SharesPost, headed by Greg Brogger and incubated by Brighthouse, is looking to create a Web 2.0-enabled secondary marketplace for shares in private companies, and particularly venture-backed, technology firms. Brighthouse is a technology incubator headed by both Brogger and Scott Painter, who also co-founded Zag and CarsDirect. Santa Monica-based SharesPost , which has created on online marketplace for sellers and buyers of private company stock, reported to its users late Friday that the firm now has sales of LinkedIn, Linden Lab, Tesla Motors, and SugarCRM going into escrow.
Los Angeles-based Zag , the online car buying software firm headed by former CarsDirect CEO Scott Painter, has scored an investment from financial services firm USAA , USAA disclosed Thursday. Zag develops technology which allows members of groups like USAA to fully configure and purchase cars, through car buying programs. USAA did not provide financial details behind the investment. According to USAA, it is taking an equity position in Zag, which is also providing the firm with its car buying services.
Zag has now signed up 14 AAA motor clubs, and also provides its technology to Capital One Auto Finance, Overstock.com, and other sites. Zag is headed by former CarsDirect CEO Scott Painter, and is venture backed by Anthem Venture Partners, Capital One Auto Finance, GRP Partners, Arcturus Capital, Callaway Cars and the Skoll Fund. Santa Monica-based Zag, which is developing software for auto buying programs, has signed on another AAA group as a customer. According to Zag, AAA Mid-Atlantic has just unveiled a auto buying program which is powered by the firm's software.
association with some of the region�s top trade associations/social networking groups and industry hosts, DFR '09 promises to be the largest holiday party of the season and help weave our various communities of interest into the larger collective family of professionals working in and around the technology industry. Join Scott Painter, Founder of CarsDirect and Entrepreneur. Tell Dear readers: We've got offers for two different event -- a discount to tomorrow's Digital Family Reunion , and a chance to win a ticket to digiday:APPS next week. Read more below for details.
association with some of the region’s top trade associations/social networking groups and industry hosts, DFR ‘09 promises to be the largest holiday party of the season and help weave our various communities of interest into the larger collective family of professionals working in and around the technology industry. Scott Painter, Founder of CarsDirect and Entrepreneur. Dear readers: We’ve got offers for three different events today — a discount to tomorrow’s Digital Family Reunion , a chance to win a ticket to digiday:APPS next week, and a 50% discount to the new Schmoozd Social Media Mixer .
We co-founded Zag together, and I was the COO of CarsDirect. If you look at any other financial market in the world, no other market has been less impacted by communications technology, or the Internet. Given the advances in communications technology, and the Web 2.0 Yesterday, Santa Monica-based SharesPost (www.sharespost.com) launched a new service of particular interest to the venture capital and high tech startup market, a new, online service which facilitates the buying and selling of private company stock. We caught up with Greg Brogger , the firm's CEO, to understand the
The underpinning of the technology is much more complex than that, of course, and we've been building this for awhile. started as a tester, but in six months, I had risen to assistant project manager at CarsDirect. in architectural technology. Los Angeles-based KlickSports (www.klicksports.com) recently rolled out the firm's live sports prediction web site and game, looking to harness the enthusiasm of sports fans for their favorite sports and teams. We spoke with Jose daVeiga , the firm's CEO and co-founder, to learn more about the company. What's