- 1. Taxis are Returning to Combat Ridesharing Price Hikes
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- Taxi cabs are seeing an influx of business due to rising costs of ride sharing apps such as Uber and Lyft. Cities like San Francisco, Chicago, and New York has seen an increase in demand for taxis and ...
- 2. GrubHub, DoorDash, UberEats Sues NYC Over Capped Fees
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- Major food delivery services like UberEats, DoorDash and GrubHub are suing New York City after the city voted to cap delivery fees in August. The companies are suing for monetary damages, a jury trial, ...
- 3. Ridesharing Apps Offer Incentives to Drivers Amid Driver Shortages
- (Logistics)
- ... you’re running late and don’t have a car – who you gonna call? An Uber or Lyft Driver. Unless you have a ghost in your home – then you’re better off calling the Ghostbusters. You’re not going to want ...
- 4. Richpanel brings Amazon-style customer service experience to all ecommerce businesses around the world
- (News)
- ... other scenario which would otherwise result in a support ticket. While tech giants like Amazon and Uber have made massive investments to automate their purchase & post purchase flows like “where is my ...
- 5. How Robotics Factor in the Supply Chain Industry
- (Logistics)
- ... have employed robots to help with sorting and packaging; ride-sharing giant Uber has started exploring self-driving cars; and even bars have started exploring ways that AI can reduce their overhead while ...
- 6. Chowbus Enters Food Delivery Arena
- (Logistics)
- ... to not only the restaurants who were supplying the food but to the customers who were ordering it. To compete with the likes of Uber Eats, Postmates, and Grubhub – Chowbus takes a smaller commission ...
- 7. Amazon Founder Invests in New Startup
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- Amazon’s Jeff Bezos has invested in the UK startup Beacon, reports Transport & Logistics. Beacon was founded in 2018 by CEO Fraser Robinson and COO Dmitri Izmailov, both former Uber executives. Read ...
- 8. Supply Chain & Covid-19
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- According to Transport Topics, a new survey finds that the global supply chain is starting to feel the effects of Covid-19. The coronavirus is having a growing impact on supply chains, according to a ...
- 9. Supply Chain Industry on Edge as Coronavirus Continues to Spread
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- When the coronavirus (COVID-19) began; experts theorized how a potential pandemic would affect the supply chain industry. Months later as the coronavirus continues to spread with no indication of stopping ...
- 10. Making Shipping More Collaborative
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- ... will allow it to transform the supply chain – not by “uberizing” it, but by creating a single TMS that will allow true visibility and collaboration between shippers, carriers, and intermediaries Read ...
- 11. Dark Kitchens Test Supply Chain Limits
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- ... services like Uber Eats and Doordash have capitalized on what customers want most: convenience. The rise in popularity of food delivery has born a concept—dark kitchens. Read article on Restaurant ...
- 12. Ladingo's Uber-ized container sharing shipping solution makes it possible to ship anything, anywhere in the worl
- (News)
- ... brokerage for shipments of all sizes – all regulation, taxation, and documentation are automated, hassle-free. “Uber-ized” shipping: Container-sharing of large and bulk items, for multiple shoppers from ...
- 13. How FedEx and UPS are helping victims of Hurricane Dorian
- (Logistics)
- ... homeless. In a statement Prime Minister of the Bahamas Hubert Minnis called Dorian “the greatest national crisis in our country’s history” stated, "Our urgent task will be to provide food, water, shelter, ...
- 14. Turvo Gains Key Uber Freight Staff
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- According to Freight Waves, three key members of Uber Freight have left there to join Turvo, a supply chain software startup. Read the article onFreight Waves
- 15. Blockchain Will Help Keep Data Safe
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- As the number of vendors in the supply chain increases, along with the use of digital technology it will become even more important to keep the data safe, reports the Currency Analytics. That will be possible ...
- 16. Autonomous Trucks are Coming
- (News)
- According to Forbes, Amazon and other large retailers will push the uses of autonomous trucks as a way to keep their supply chain moving. Read the article onForbes
- 17. Amazon's Trucking Move
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- Amazon created a lot of buzz (pun intended) with its testing of drones for customer order delivery. But Wired magazine's Davey Alba thinks their real logistics future is elsewhere: in self-driving trucks.Lots ...
- 18. The Future for Supply Chains is Now
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- The future for supply chains is now, at least for those who can adapt to change. Vishal Patel is looking at how automation, robotics, and artificial intelligence (AI) are affecting the work we do.What ...
- 19. Uber and Supply Chains
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- What can car-ride service Uber teach us about supply chains? Quite a lot, actually, according to Dr. Madhave Durbha.In his recent article on the 21st Century Supply Chain site, he uses Uber as an example ...
- 20. Is Amazon Getting Into the Logistics Game?
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- The major parcel carriers and Amazon itself dismiss the idea that the ecommerce giant is building its own parcel delivery network. Actions, though, speak louder than words and it looks suspiciously like ...
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