Or how about Ruby Lu of DCM, who funded three Chinese companies that went public in the U.S.: Amazon-plus Dangdang, car web site BitAuto and outsourcing firm VanceInfo.
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Car Care Web: Through the UVO eServices owner's portal, known as "Car Care Web, " owners can check vehicle diagnostics, vehicle status, maintenance schedules, driving behavior, and schedule appointments with their preferred or nearby dealer via their home computer or mobile device.
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Upon completion, any issues found are automatically forwarded to Car Care Web.
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Owners also can earn awards for safe and eco-friendly driving viewable on Car Care Web should they rank high enough among their fellow UVO eServices owners.
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In addition, all destinations sent from Google Maps will be copied to the owner's Car Care Web. (My POI is only available with UVO eServices vehicles equipped with navigation).
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Gartner's Koswolski says that current online car-buying web sites are at the mercy of the dealers that work with them.
The source of its excitement was not a cool car but a Web trailer for an upcoming movie called Transformers.
To this end, Sales Spider has relevant member discounts for things like hotel rooms, car rentals, web hosting and even business loans.
But I wondered if shopping for a new car on the web is really as easy and as satisfying as General Motor's television commercials, replete with grinning, laptop-toting twentysomethings, make it out to be.
Dutch thinks the real selling point is Networkcar's global positioning system, which allows owners to locate a stolen vehicle or even monitor the location and performance of the family car using a Web site.
In fact, car industry experts at Kelly Blue Book actually recommend that car shoppers start with the web.
Hyperparallel can distinguish regular people from doctors by how they use a medical Web site, or car buyers from car fans.
Earlier this year, Maxthon announced a deal with Pioneer Electronics to enable users to browse the Web from an in-car touch-screen device.
The other option, and the most convenient, is to go to Cars.com (link below, a Web site associated with the Car Talk guys from National Public Radio).
Some of Cerrone's customers walk in with the stock number of the used car they want to buy printed from her Web site.
BankRate provides information on mortgage, car loans and insurance on a variety of Web sites, generating revenue by selling advertising and generating customer leads.
Added to which MINI enables the use of web-based social networks in the car.
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The company delivers free and subscription-based access to millions of songs and hundreds of expert-programmed stations, plus news, sports and talk, on the web, mobile devices, in-car infotainment systems and consumer electronics platforms.
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Numerous videos of the fireball were taken with camera phones, CCTV and car-dashboard cameras and subsequently shared widely on the web.
Build a digital music collection that's available everywhere - on the web, in-home or in-car, on tablets or mobile phones, and even offline.
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Example: If General Motors wants to slap down Web juggernauts like AOL, Yahoo, Microsoft, Amazon.com, RealNetworks and MP3.com in the race to own the car portal, it will have to do what a Web company does: price for market share, not margin, and then try hard as heck to scale up rapidly.
The effort attracted proud car owners and drove 8, 000 visitors to an Allstate Web site--a small crowd, but a keenly interested one.
The scriptless films, which first hit the Web in June, sometimes take on the look of a car wreck in slow motion.
Next, make a list of the phone numbers and Web addresses for your travel agent, airline, hotel, rental car company, and any other travel related contacts.
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If you're not watching the car duke it out in person, you can even tune in over the web and watch a live video stream from one of its onboard cams.
Do not ever provide a service over the web that controls something critical (house lights, surveillance cameras, bank accounts, car lock-out devices, street signs, traffic lights, bank accounts, stock trading accounts, etc.) without having at least rudimentary controls in place.
"I've got a good feeling in the car -- it's probably the best feeling I've had in the car around this circuit, " the 25-year-old Briton told the official Formula One Web site.
Although car enthusiasts might snicker, the challenge for a car company at any show is to break through the automotive press and onto television news casts, capture mainstream Web sites, and get people to write Tweets and Facebook posts.
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