Move over Facebook, YouTube and Instagram — there’s an upstart fixed-ops marketing tool in town with a goofy name that belies its serious promotional potential: TikTok. Once the primary province of home videos showing preteens and teens bustin’ a move or lip-syncing to the hit song du jour in their bedrooms and basement rec rooms,
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Once flush with easy money, investors have soured on investing in electric vehicles and other mobility startups amid uncertain economic conditions. The total amount invested in the moblity tech sector dropped by 79 percent year-over-year in the third quarter of 2022, according to the latest figures from financial services firm PitchBook. Going forward, investors expect
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Elon Musk reinstated the Twitter accounts of several journalists that were suspended for a day over a controversy on publishing public data about the billionaire’s plane. The reinstatements came after the unprecedented suspensions evoked stinging criticism from government officials, advocacy groups and journalism organizations from several parts of the globe on Friday, with some saying
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Tesla owners love over-the-air software updates, which add features to enhance performance, convenience and safety. But the updates can also make the Tesla experience more fun around Christmas time. This year’s big “holiday update” brings a top feature that Tesla fans have been clamoring for: Apple Music on the infotainment screen. Also added was Zoom
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Reda Riddle-Bigler heard about the autonomous vehicles deployed throughout the metro Phoenix area years ago. Sometimes she’d see the cars, with elaborate sensors affixed to their roofs, driving along the road. But it wasn’t until May, when she received a promotion to central district commander with the Phoenix Fire Department, that she understood self-driving technology
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Auto exports from China have surged this year as domestic automakers look to establish themselves beyond their home market. Through September, a total of 2.2 million passenger cars, trucks, buses and other vehicles were exported from China. That is up 54 percent from the same period last year and already more than double the average
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Building a website through which consumers can quickly get their vehicles appraised and then sell them to Performance Automotive Network has helped the Cincinnati-based dealership group supplement its inventory of used cars and trucks and cut costs tied to visiting wholesale auctions. Even before the coronavirus pandemic and resulting new-vehicle supply constraints, Performance Automotive Network
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In this article GM Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A Cruise vehicle in San Francisco, California, on Wednesday Feb. 2, 2022. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images U.S. automotive safety officials have opened a formal probe into the autonomous driving system used by General Motors’ self-driving vehicle unit Cruise. The National Highway
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On this episode of The Downshift, we head to Norway to see what Formula Drift driver Fredric Aasbo does in the offseason in the cold Scandinavian winters. Feel free to follow Fredric at http://www.facebook.com/OfficialFredricAasbo The Downshift appears every other Tuesday on the new Motor Trend channel. http://www.youtube.com/motortrend Subscribe now to make sure you’re in on
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