A US Rail Strike Was Averted—but the Crisis Is Far From Over
In the early hours of Thursday morning, major US freight railroad companies reached a tentative agreement with unions, narrowly averting a nationwide rail…
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HyperTrack launches real-time, last-mile logistics API package
HyperTrack, which provides standard logistics application programming interfaces (APIs) for enterprise last-mile delivery and fulfillment operations, today…
Lyft Creates Media Division to Expand Its Advertising Services
Lyft Inc.
has formed Lyft Media, a new business unit consolidating and expanding the advertising offerings at the ride-hailing…
The Speedy Downfall of Rapid Delivery Startups
It took only eight months for Jokr, the superfast delivery startup, to become a unicorn, and just six months more for its strategy to start coming apart.…
Freight forwarding and logistics firm gains extra mileage through CallSwitch UCaaS
As it attempted to reconfigure after discovering during lockdown that the shortfalls of its legacy comms system were actually affecting business in…
Amazon’s ‘Safe’ New Robot Won’t Fix its Worker Injury Problem
The introduction of Proteus comes 10 years after Amazon’s acquisition of Kiva Systems, which became Amazon Robotics. Kiva robots carry up to 1,000 pounds of…
This Warehouse Robot Reads Human Body Language
Sales of workplace robots worldwide are growing steadily after a recent slowdown in growth due to the pandemic, according to data from the International…
LG Electronics to Enter Next-Gen Logistics Market, Set to Sign MoU Agreement With CJ Logistics
LG Electronics and CJ Logistics will enter the next-generation logistics robot market.LG Electronics said it will sign an MOU agreement with CJ Logistics to…
The World Has Too Much Stuff
After the famine, the flood. The past two years have been blighted by supply shortages—with just-in-time retailers struggling to ship their goods,…