Ever bought or sold a car to CarMax? Then you know the process is pretty easy. Well, easy just got easier in the Triangle. CarMax has been in Raleigh for more than a decade now. Recently the company launched new online functionality, but only in the Raleigh/Durham and Fayetteville areas. Now customers in these areas can hold a vehicle, schedule a test drive, apply for financing, initiate and pay for a transfer, select a MaxCare extended...

It’s been just about 2 years since the Triangle startup community came together for the first Triangle Startup Weekend, where four ideas out of 21 pitched – for startups ranging from a mobile app for guys to team up with “wing women” to assist with real-life dating, to a community-based online bartering network – were developed over the course of the weekend by make-shift groups of hackers, founders and...

It must be Springtime. It’s tweetup time. Bronto is hosting the first Triangle Tweetup of the year at their offices in the American Tobacco complex in downtown Durham. This is now an annual tradition with our friends at Bronto and we are looking for ways to celebrate local creativity through social networking at the tweetup. Give your ideas in the comments on twitter hashtagged #triangletweetup. We’ll share more event details...

We had so much fun getting to meet our tweeps in-person during last year’s Deep Fried Triangle Tweetup at the N.C. State Fair that we decided to do it all again. This time, we’re moving the celebration to the very first day of the Fair to offer you a first glimpse at the rides, food and entertainment you can expect at the Fair. The Deep Fried Triangle Tweetup, co-hosted with OurHashtag, will be held on Preview Day,...

Tweetups and location-based services go hand and hand. Attendees can check-in at a Tweetup and share with their soical graph about the experience and even use location-based services to say they’re own the way to a tweetup. Part of the #TriangleTweetup team is a little bias when it comes to location based apps and would love for everyone to check-in with TriOut but we know there are a few more location-bases apps that the community...

If you’re new to #TriangleTweetup then you may not be aware of the face that there’s a King and Queen crowned at each big event. It started off with @ToAsTySnAcKs – Queen 2007 and @InstantTaylor – King 2007 then @Mammalpants – King 2008 and @Ginnyskal – Queen 2008. The current King and Queen are @jazzychad and @lruettimann, crowned in 2009. Want to see the prior Royal Triangle Tweeple Courts? Gaze upon the magnificent...