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Uber Eats will now deliver your waffles across the country
This week, customers can order specialty food to be delivered nationwide from 15 merchants in New York, Los Angeles and Miami.
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Aurora expands autonomous freight pilot with FedEx in Texas
Aurora Innovation, an autonomous vehicle technology company, has expanded its self-driving freight pilot with FedEx to include a new lane from Fort...
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Aurora’s Sterling Anderson and FedEx’s Rebecca Yeung discuss the future of autonomous trucking at TC Sessions: Mobility 2022
When the CEO of FedEx, the global leader in logistics, promises “an enormous effort towards autonomous trucks” this summer, wisdom —...
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3 predictions for GM’s Q1 earnings
Per data from Yahoo Finance, analysts expect that GM generated Q1 2022 earnings of $1.68 per share off revenues of $37.33 billion.
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FedEx app’s test appears to show the ability to track deliveries from other services
FedEx has been working on a new feature for its consumer mobile app that would seemingly allow it to better compete with the popular Shop app by...
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99minutos clocks in fresh capital for logistics infrastructure in Latin America
99minutos, a logistics service company for e-commerce vendors across Latin America, is making fast work out of attracting funding. It announced today...
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Scandit snaps up $150M at a $1B+ valuation for its computer vision-based data capture technology
Consumers and businesses are forever demanding faster and easier ways to get things done, and today a startup that is building tech to make that a...
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Senegalese logistics and delivery company PAPS raises $4.5M led by 4DX Ventures and Orange
Multinationals like Amazon and Alibaba have leveraged logistics infrastructure such as UPS and FedEx to create large businesses. It’s not the same...
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GM’s BrightDrop brings on Walmart as new EV customer as FedEx ups existing order
General Motors’ commercial electric vehicle unit BrightDrop has scored Walmart as a customer with a reservation of 5,000 e-delivery vans to...
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FedEx receives its first fully-electric GM Brightdrop delivery vans
FedEx has received its first five GM-built electric delivery vans out of 500 total. The move represents an important landmark for FedEx in its goal...
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Jobandtalent raises $500M Series E to keep scaling its ‘workforce as a service’ marketplace
Spain’s Jobandtalent — a “workforce marketplace” and digital temping agency that uses AI to match workers to casual labor...
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FedEx to test Aurora’s self-driving trucks on Dallas-to-Houston route
FedEx has started to use self-driving trucks to haul goods between Dallas and Houston as part of a pilot program with autonomous vehicle startup...
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Sendcloud nabs $177M led by SoftBank to double down on SaaS — shipping as a service
E-commerce has undoubtedly seen a huge boost in growth in the last year and a half of COVID-19 living, with people turning to the web and apps to...
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Sustainable e-commerce startup Olive now ships beauty products, in addition to apparel
Earlier this year, a startup called Olive launched its new shopping site and app with the goal of making e-commerce more efficient, convenient and...
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Suing your way to the stars
Hello friends, and welcome back to Week in Review! I’m back from a very fun and rehabilitative couple weeks away from my phone, my Twitter...
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The Nuro EC-1
Six years ago, I sat in the Google self-driving project's Firefly vehicle — which I described, at the time, as a "little gumdrop on...
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A DNS outage just took down a large chunk of the internet
Akamai said it's fixed the issue and returning to normal operations.
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India’s Delhivery bags $100 million from FedEx
FedEx Express, a subsidiary of delivery services giant FedEx, is investing $100 million in Indian startup Delhivery as the global firm looks to...
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GM’s newest startup aims squarely at the commercial EV market
In the next few years, you'll more likely see an electric delivery van dropping off your packages than an electric car in your neighbor's...
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Autonomous delivery startup Nuro moves into logistics with FedEx
Nuro, the autonomous delivery startup founded in 2016 by former Google engineers Dave Ferguson and Jiajun Zhu, is expanding into parcel logistics...
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