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Photos: Motor Show showcases the future of car tech
Photo This shows the four wheel steering system Renault has fitted to its new Laguna Coupé. This is the new Ford Fiesta ECOnetic - due to be launched in the UK in October - which uses a small capacity engine and aerodynamic refinements to produce a... [25 Jul 2008]
Betting an E-Business on Documentum
White Paper Covisint LLC is an independent and global e-business trading exchange focused on automotive manufacturers and supported by General Motors, Ford, DaimlerChrysler, and Renault-Nissan, and others. Covisint needed to provide added value, not just the... [20 May 2005]
Covisint e-hub acquired by FreeMarkets
News While Covisint was founded by DaimlerChrysler, Ford and General Motors many other car giants were quick to join in, notably Renault/Nissan, Toyota and even eventually Volkswagen. Covisint, set up by the Big Three US auto manufacturers at the height... [02 Jan 2004]
Ford's change of gear signals boost for B2B
News The 4,200 suppliers and 42,000 end users on the private Ford Supplier Network (FSN) will now conduct business with the motor giant over the public exchange it co-founded with General Motors, Daimler Chrysler, Renault and Nissan in 1999. [31 Aug 2001]
Why Ford won't break the bank with B2B
Comment It helped co-found Covisint along with rivals General Motors, Daimler Chrysler, Nissan and Renault a year and a half ago. Ford has just given a $90m stamp of approval to auto industry exchange Covisint.m is the estimated annual worth of... [31 Aug 2001]
VW gives Covisint the cold shoulder
News The company also managed to entice Renault and Nissan to join up. The move is a blow for Covisint, which was founded by Ford, General Motors and DaimlerChrysler. Ford's boasts not all they appear http://www.silicon.com/a45484 [12 Jul 2001]
Ford's boasts not all they appear
News Covisint members also include Daimler Chrysler, General Motors, Nissan, Peugeot and Renault. Ford's multi million dollar B2B savings bonanza has been slammed as 'insignificant' by industry pundits who claim Covisint customers are cashing in by... [03 Jul 2001]
Covisint drives a hard bargain for Ford
News General Motors, DaimlerChrysler and Renault are the other partners in the exchange. Ford claims that its investment in B2B exchange Covisint has already been paid back. Savings to date have come from lowered process costs and supplier prices rather... [03 Jul 2001]
End of the road for car makers' inhouse IT
News Covisint has been live since September 2000 and counts Ford, General Motors, Nissan and Renault among its founding members. Analysts say that failure to reduce expenditure at this stage could have prompted buyout bids from founding members such as... [22 May 2001]
Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes-Benz (online)
Comment In a reverse auction that took place last week, this founding member of Covisint, the online exchange for the car industry jointly established with Ford, GM, Renault and others, made orders worth E3.5bn for two of its future product lines. [16 May 2001]
Europe's motor trade shuns own online exchanges
News Covisint set up European operations in March, backed by major car manufacturers such as Daimler Chrysler, Ford, General Motors, Nissan and Renault. Only 27 per cent of suppliers were familiar with Covisint - the auto industry's biggest exchange. [08 May 2001]
Oracle lashes out at Commerce One
News The exchange, which trades car parts online, is a collaboration between Daimler-Chrysler, Ford, General Motors and Renault, and predicts it will have $240bn of trade going over it annually. However, the situation is made more complex by the fact... [14 Dec 2000]
E-marketplaces 2001: size will still matter
Comment That was why the EC sniffed around MyAircraft.com earlier this year and the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) investigated Covisint, which has DaimlerChrysler, Ford, GM, Renault/Nissan and Toyota behind it. [18 Oct 2000]
FTC requests Covisint clarification
News Yesterday, neither Covisint's backers - which include DaimlerChrysler, Ford, General Motors and Renault - nor the FTC would comment on Commerce One's remarks. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which rules over anti-trust issues in the US, has... [27 Jul 2000]
Can e-marketplaces demand the supply?
Comment The automotive industry's Covisint (DaimlerChrysler, Ford, GM and Renault) is a case in point, quickly followed by aerospace leviathans BAE Systems, Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Raytheon. Just two days ago we wrote about e-marketplaces - the... [05 Jul 2000]
