Driving force.Two years ago, a Los Angeles-based group of entrepreneurs from the automotive, technology and finance worlds got together to build a business that would enable consumers to buy cars more easily. Led by Scott Painter painter, animal: see puma. A full-featured paint program for Macintosh and Windows from Corel. Part of Corel's illustration and design line of products, Painter is the most sophisticated paint program on the market with an array of tool palettes that is , former chief executive for CarsDirect.com, the Zag group designed a technology platform that provided customizable online car search information. It included a price-guaranteed certificate that customers can simply present to a dealer to buy their cars. Now Zag.com Inc. has used $40 million in outside financing to build a software platform to power Capital One's new Drive One program and has acquired Autoland In aviation, autoland describes a system that fully automates the landing phase of an aircraft's flight, with the human crew merely supervising the process. Description , the nation's largest credit union auto-buying service. Zag separately picked up Automotive Invitational in·vi·ta·tion·al adj. Restricted to invited participants: an invitational golf tournament. n. An event, especially a sports tournament, restricted to invited participants. Adj. 1. Services, an auto-buying program that serves more than 6 million members of 12 American Automobile Association American Automobile Association (AAA), federation of American automobile clubs, est. 1902. AAA provides a number of benefits to its members, including emergency road service; national and international travel assistance, e.g. clubs. Staff reporter Dan Cox can be reached at dcox@labusinessjournal.com or at (323) 549-5225, ext. 230. |
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