GasBuddy.com
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| Privately held company | |
| Founded | 2000 |
| Founder | Dustin Coupal and Jason Toews |
| Headquarters | Boston, MA |
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Area served
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United States, Canada, Australia |
| Parent | United Communications Group (UCG) |
| Website | www |
GasBuddy is a tech company based in Boston, MA that operates apps and websites based around finding cheap gas in an area. They also offer software solutions to convenience store owners via their B2B initiatives (formerly known as OpenStore).
The GasBuddy app is a GPS-based application program for smartphones and tablets which provides prices of nearby gas stations from user-submitted data, as well as through partnerships with other companies and directly from station operators. The app supports Android, iPhone, iPad, BlackBerry, and Windows Phone.
Childhood friends Dustin Coupal (an eye doctor) and Jason Toews (a computer programmer) founded GasBuddy in April 2000 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Jason is from Saskatchewan Canada In June 2000, Toews and Coupal launched the collection of GasBuddy websites as a way to serve the public with everything needed for consumers to easily and freely share gas-pricing information. They filed as a Minnesota for-profit corporation in April 2004 as GasBuddy Organization Inc.
In 2009, GasBuddy launched OpenStore with its first convenience store partner, Rutter's, by building the Rutter's app and supporting digital marketing efforts through its custom platform.
Towards the end of 2010, GasBuddy launched its own set of apps that allowed users to input prices via their smartphones.
In March 2013, UCG, a privately held, business-to-business company headquartered in Rockville, Maryland, announced that Oil Price Information Service (OPIS) had acquired GasBuddy. OPIS is a UCG subsidiary established in 1977 as the Oil Express Newsletter and specializing in worldwide petroleum pricing and news for businesses.
On February 10, 2016, IHS acquired OPIS, separating from GasBuddy, which remained with UCG as a subsidiary company.
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