Urban Mobility
ATLANTA — Asbury Automotive Group Inc. is trying a low-cost approach to selling vehicles online. It has worked so well in the venture’s early months that executives are spreading it to more stores. In March, Asbury, the nation’s seventh-largest dealership group, began experimenting with online selling software supplied by San Francisco startup Drive Motors. The software was being used in
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China’s biggest iPhone maker, largest e-commerce company and leading internet-video producer are all in the hunt to build electric cars — and to grab the small pool of available talent to build them. More than 200 Chinese companies — with backers including Terry Gou, Ma Huateng, Jack Ma and Jia Yueting — are developing 4,000 models of new-energy vehicles and
Read moreUber Technologies Inc. has developed new technology to track when drivers of the ride-hailing app go too fast, cut corners or brake harshly by monitoring the sensors in their smartphones. The software, part of an updated version of Uber’s app for drivers that is rolling out to dozens of cities during a test phase this week, could help the company’s
Read moreTHAILAND is beckoning Chinese start-up companies to invest in the Kingdom in such high-tech industries as information and communications technology, automobiles, aviation and electronics. Deputy Prime Minister Somkid Jatusripitak took representatives of the private sector to China to seek more investment. The delegation will be there until Thursday, visiting Beijing and Shanghai. He will talk with eight to 10 start-ups
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