Twiistup 5  founder  Mike Macadaan  recently invited a few of us to his Santa Monica apartment. This year, all drinks are included with your ticket price , this even applies to  those who occasionally have too many . Tags: Events twiistup santa monica techzulu twiistup The occasion (other than greatly extending our lunch breaks) was a preview of what to expect at the much anticipated Twiistup event. TechZulu has an interview and more info to follow, for now there’s really just 4 things you need to know:  -

Santa Monica-based TrueCar , the automotive pricing startup headed by Scott Painter, said yesterday that it has rolled out a new, monthly consumer price report. Tags: truecar automotive pricing shoppin The firm said that the monthly report will help consumers identify which cars have the most negotiating room, best deals, and other information. TrueCar is a spinout of Zag Automotive, and gathers its data from actual sales information from local dealerships.

Santa Monica-based TrueCar has officially launched its new car pricing site today, saying that it is now providing consumers with details on the prices paid for people on cars in their area. The firm--which is a spinout of automotive configuration software firm Zag--said it will provide consumers with a "Price Report" showing the full distribution of prices paid by other people, for the exact same vehicle, in a consumer's local area. The new service is free, and is based on automotive transactions within the last four weeks. TrueCar is venture backed

Santa Monica-based TrueCar , the new car pricing data startup headed by Scott Painter, said Monday that it has inked a deal with automotive publisher High Gear Media , where High Gear will include TrueCar's data on its network of web sites. TrueCar said that High Gear will include its search and pricing services through sites like TheCarConnection.com , MotorAuthority.com and GreenCarReports.com , part of High Gear's network of web sites. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. TrueCar provides new car pricing data derived from actual automobile dealership

Santa Monica-based TrueCar , the online car pricing spinout of Zag Automotive, is expanding the depth of its vehicle data today, saying that it is licensing information on new vehicles from Chrome Systems, which is a part of DealerTrack Holdings. TrueCar said it will license Chrome's new vehicle data to provide details on vehicles down to the option level, and that the deal also include an ability to distribute that data to third party web sites in conjunction with TrueCar's pricing estimates. Financial details of the license deal were not disclosed. READ MORE>>

Santa Monica-based TrueCar , the automotive pricing spinout of Zag Automotive, annoucned today that it has hired the Chief Evangelist from Edmunds. TrueCar is using real-world sales data from automotive dealesr to power its service, which allows both consumers and dealers to research recent pricing trends and actual pricing data from local markets. Tags: truecar executive edmunds automotive The firm said that Jesse Toprak will serve as the firm's Vice President of Industry (Tresnds & Insights) at the company, and will analyze and report on automotive related topics, trends and insights.

Santa Monica-based TrueCar , the online automobile pricing firm headed by Scott Painter, has rolled out a new tool that the firm says gives the actual dealer cost structure for new automobiles. Tags: truecar auto pricing automobile cos The firm said its new TrueCost service allows consumers to see the actual cost structure for new vehicles, and get an exact breakdown of the cost to dealers for those vehicles. The firm claims the tool will help prevent unrealistic low offers from consumers, and back-and-forth tactics by dealers.

For example, his order process is always split into two parts: the first page asks potential customers for their names, email addresses, etc, and the second page tells them the price and asks for the order. If she abandons after the second page, Wil knows he needs to adjust his price. Was it because of price? When my friend Wil Schroter builds web sites, he's more concerned with attracting revenue than eyeballs. When we get together in person, I like talking to him about how he builds revenue-generating sites like goBIGnetwork.com , because he's so methodical about it.

Santa Monica-based TrueCar , the auto pricing data firm headed by Scott Painter, announced Friday that it is looking to measure the ratings of the "hottest" vehicles from its data, with a new web service called TrueBuzz . The firm said the new vehicle pricing prediction service will offer prediction in consumer interest in new vehicles, based on site traffic, automotive media coverage, blog postings, dealership pre-orders, and other data. The firm said it will only offer the ratings for production, and not concept cars, with predictions for six months after full retail distribution of the new vehicles.

Santa Monica-based TrueCar , the automotive pricing spinout of Zag Automotive, disclosed Wednesday that the firm has inked distribution deals with five automotive websites. According to TrueCar, it will provide its price reports on Pricequotes.com , Carbuyingtips.com , Carzen.com , Carpricesecrets.com , and Cardevotion.com . TrueCar is using pricing data, derived from Financial details of the distribution deals were not disclosed. The firm provides that data to users to get realistic pricing data before shopping for a car.