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Spammers Beware - Iowa Judge Awards ISP $1 Billion

Spammers Beware - Iowa Judge Awards ISP $1 Billion

DAVENPORT, Iowa December 18, 2004; The AP reported that a federal judge has awarded an Internet service provider more than $1 billion in what is believed to be the largest judgment ever against spammers. Robert Kramer, whose company provides e-mail service for about 5,000 subscribers in eastern Iowa, filed suit against ... Continue reading

Autobytel Offers Video Ad Program

Autobytel Offers Video Ad Program

Industry-Leading Program Upgraded With State-of-the-Art Video Player; Company Streams Nearly 3,500 Hours of Automotive Commercials in November Alone IRVINE, Calif., Dec. 14 -- Autobytel's video production division, CarTV, has announced it is rolling out its streaming advertising program across the Autobytel network of ... Continue reading

NeoSynergy Introduces First Web-Based Automobile Dealership Management System; Revolutionizes Industry by Adding eCommerce Capability

NeoSynergy Introduces First Web-Based Automobile Dealership Management System; Revolutionizes Industry by Adding eCommerce Capability

WELLINGTON, Fla., Dec. 14 -- With the North American automotive industry struggling to best use the limited capabilities of legacy dealership management systems, NeoSynergy today introduced its much anticipated 100 percent Web-based enterprise technology platform that fully integrates and optimizes dealer inventory, sa ... Continue reading

Shopping for a Shiny New Motorcycle?

Shopping for a Shiny New Motorcycle?

COSTA MESA, Calif., Dec. 14 -- NADAguides.com, a leading vehicle information website, today announced the launch of a new motorcycle building and pricing tool at its website, NADAguides.com (www.NADAguides.com) -- an essential tool for new motorcycle shoppers. The tool, powered by Consumer Research Solutions, Inc. (CRS ... Continue reading

ChannelNet Expands Relationship With Autobytel's AVV to Provide Lead Management Tools to Automotive Retailers

ChannelNet Expands Relationship With Autobytel's AVV to Provide Lead Management Tools to Automotive Retailers

MILL VALLEY, Calif., Dec. 14 -- ChannelNet (www.channelnet.com), the premier builder of multichannel marketplace solutions, has expanded its relationship with Autobytel's AVV, Inc. subsidiary (www.avv.com), a leader in dealership management tools and services, to provide lead management capabilities to automotive retai ... Continue reading

Law Firm Announces Filing Of Class Action Suit Against Autobytel On Behalf of Investors

Law Firm Announces Filing Of Class Action Suit Against Autobytel On Behalf of Investors

NEW YORK--Dec. 9, 2004--The law firm of Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman LLP announces that a class action lawsuit was filed today on behalf of all persons who purchased or otherwise acquired the securities of Autobytel, Inc. ("Autobytel" or the "Company") between July 24, 2003 and October 21, 2004, inclusive (the "Cla ... Continue reading

AutoTrader.com and Ant Farm Partner on Interactive Advertising

AutoTrader.com and Ant Farm Partner on Interactive Advertising

Online marketplace and agency will produce nationwide brand marketing and advertising ATLANTA, Dec. 8 -- AutoTrader.com, the world's largest automotive marketplace, today announces that it has partnered with Ant Farm Interactive, a full-service interactive marketing firm, on all interactive marketing communications pro ... Continue reading

E-LOAN and Edmunds.com Announce Partnership

E-LOAN and Edmunds.com Announce Partnership

E-LOAN Partners With the Premier Online Automotive Information Resource for Consumers; Edmunds.com Named the 'Most Useful Web Site' According to Every J.D. Power and Associates New Autoshopper.com Study(SM) PLEASANTON, Calif., Dec. 7 -- E-LOAN(R) , an online consumer direct lender, today announced that it has been name ... Continue reading

Dollar Rent A Car Revs Up Award-Winning Dollar.com Web Site, Customers Benefit From Easy Two-Click Reservation Process

Dollar Rent A Car Revs Up Award-Winning Dollar.com Web Site, Customers Benefit From Easy Two-Click Reservation Process

TULSA, Okla., Dec. 1 -- Dollar Rent A Car, a subsidiary of Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group, Inc. , has made the company's award-winning Web site, dollar.com, easier than ever for customers to book a DOLLAR(R) rental car. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20020418/DRCLOGO ) With just two clicks of the mouse fro ... Continue reading

2005 Showroom Makeovers: Retailers Need Reality Check to Combat Web Threat, Says S.H. Brown Research

2005 Showroom Makeovers: Retailers Need Reality Check to Combat Web Threat, Says S.H. Brown Research

ROCHESTER, Mich.--Dec. 1, 2004--With U.S. web sales on a $65 billion pace this year, according to government figures, what's a storefront operator to do in 2005 to protect their slice of the action? Get real about the condition of your showroom, says an expert who's witnessed retailing's good, bad and ugly. "You have t ... Continue reading

The End of TV as We Know It

The End of TV as We Know It

will target this population with adult education programs, and this will provide new jobs as a result. The boomer generation has been the major driver of economic growth since the '80s and will continue to be in the coming years. ... Continue reading

The Cobalt Group Acquires Dealix Corporation

The Cobalt Group Acquires Dealix Corporation

Combined Company Provides Integrated, Seamless Retailing Solution to Benefit Dealers, OEMs and Lead Suppliers Cobalt Secures $38 Million in Additional Financing from Warburg Pincus, ABS Capital Partners, Oak Investment Partners and Silicon Valley Bank SEATTLE and REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Nov. 22 -- The Cobalt Group, a lea ... Continue reading

Autobytel's Car.com Triples Number of Finance Leads Customers for Dealers

Autobytel's Car.com Triples Number of Finance Leads Customers for Dealers

Dealers Benefit from Direct Channel of 'Ready to Buy' Customers Who May Have Experienced Difficulty Securing Loans IRVINE, Calif., Nov. 21 -- Car.com, Inc., a subsidiary of Autobytel Inc. , reports that it tripled the number of Finance Leads customers channeled to its nationwide network of dealers in the first nine mon ... Continue reading

Dealix Corporation Announces New Car Lead Referral Agreement With America Online

Dealix Corporation Announces New Car Lead Referral Agreement With America Online

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Nov. 10 -- Dealix Corporation, the market expert and leader in automotive Internet marketing services, today announced an agreement with America Online, Inc., the world's leading interactive services company, that will connect millions of auto consumers across the AOL properties with Dealix's netw ... Continue reading

Lerach Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins LLP Files Class Action Suit Against Autobytel Inc.

Lerach Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins LLP Files Class Action Suit Against Autobytel Inc.

SAN DIEGO--Nov. 8, 2004--Lerach Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins LLP ("Lerach Coughlin") (http://www.lerachlaw.com/cases/autobytel/) today announced that a class action has been commenced in the United States District Court for the Central District of California on behalf of purchasers of Autobytel Inc. ("Autobyt ... Continue reading

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