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Top Apps for Your Memorial Day Road Trip
With Memorial Day approaching faster than you can say “barbecue!” and surveys indicating this year is going to be a busy one on the roads, now’s the time to take stock of your necessary road trip supplies. Roadside emergency kit? Check. Plenty of snacks and drinks? Check. Spare tire pumped up to max? Hmmm… better […]
Tesla Motors Electrifies, Disrupts the Auto Industry
More than 70 years after the death of Nikola Tesla, that name is still scaring the pants off of the establishment. Maybe even more so today, as leagues of traditional auto dealerships and service shops are cringing at the possibility that Tesla Motors could someday put them out of business. New Jersey Effectively Banned Tesla […]
IIHS Ranks the Safest Cars on the Road 2014
Each year, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) gives out awards for the safest cars on the road. Far from being a crash test dummy survival contest, the criteria for ranking among the safest cars available takes into account a lot more than just which car fared better in accidents. The IIHS also considers […]
Top 5 Ways to Avoid Car Theft
In the great big book of Things To Never Do, there’s an entire chapter dedicated to habits to avoid if you want to keep your car safe from theft. Okay, there really isn’t such a book or chapter – but if there were, these would be the top five things on that list. You can […]
Google Ventures’ Rich Miner Talks Openbay
Google Ventures partner, and co-founder of Android, Rich Miner, appeared today on Bloomberg TV to talk about his investments. When asked which companies, within his portfolio, he was excited about, he talked Openbay (1:36-2:10)! “We have a seed investment in a promising company called Openbay, which is looking at the 200 million cars on the […]
Do It Yourself Car Wash Best Practices
A lot of people think washing your car regularly is a vanity thing. Nothing could be further from the truth. Washing your car is a basic maintenance issue that can serve to protect your valuable purchase and keep your car’s paint job from fading or rusting prematurely. The good news is: it’s easy to do. […]
Secrets of an Invisible Driver
If you’re a parent, you know how difficult it can be to get your kids to open up to you. Especially when they reach those tender tween-to-teen years when suddenly anyone above or below their immediate age group becomes the subject of suspicion and mistrust. We’ve all been here. Even the most beleaguered parent understands […]
What to Do if Your Check Engine Light is On
We’ve all been there – driving along believing that everything is well in the world, and suddenly the check-engine light pops on. Boy does this light get us angry and frustrated. What does it mean? How much is this going to cost? How long will the problem take to fix this time? Assuming your check […]
Press Release — Openbay Recognized as Cool Vendor in Gartner’s Global Analysts’ Report!
Openbay Selected By Gartner as a ‘Cool Vendor’ Annual Analyst Report Recognizes Global Automotive Innovators CAMBRIDGE, MA, April 16, 2014 – Openbay – an online and mobile marketplace for consumers to find, book and pay for local auto repair and maintenance services – was evaluated, among three other companies, in Gartner’s April 9, 2014 Cool […]
Roadfly Covers Openbay
Charlie Romero, Roadfly’s founder and president, writes a wonderful consumer product review of Openbay. The title, “Openbay and their auto repair service app. Yes please!” says it all.
Openbay
Openbay, an award-winning online e-commerce marketplace for automotive repair and services and a provider of SaaS-based solutions for the automotive care industry, is transforming the experience for automotive repair and service for consumers and the way that automotive care businesses acquire and service customers.