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Carriers Feel Strain Of Delivering Packages In Short Holiday Season
Carriers Feel Strain Of Delivering Packages In Short Holiday Season
December 02, 2019  |  Delivery

Due to a shorter holiday season, delivery companies like Amazon, UPS and FedEx are facing pressure to get packages to customers in a shorter time...

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Waymo Gains Speed With Self-Driving Taxis And Deliveries
Waymo Gains Speed With Self-Driving Taxis And Deliveries
October 29, 2019  |  Delivery

The self-driving future is not exactly here yet, but it’s coming quickly, at least based on some of the most recent moves in this space...

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Inside The Race For Flying-Taxi Liftoff
Inside The Race For Flying-Taxi Liftoff
September 12, 2019  |  Innovation

This might still sound like science fiction to many people, but the race for flying-taxi dominance is on and is gaining fresh fuel as the...

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Amazon Patents ‘Surveillance-as-a-Service’ Via Drone
Amazon Patents ‘Surveillance-as-a-Service’ Via Drone
June 20, 2019  |  Amazon

To offer “surveillance as a service,” Amazon earned a U.S. patent for an “unmanned aerial vehicle.” It was granted on June 4 after its filing...

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Gatik Partners With Walmart, Scores $4.5M In Funding
Gatik Partners With Walmart, Scores $4.5M In Funding
June 06, 2019  |  Delivery

A two-year-old self driving startup called Gatik has raised $4.5 million in seed funding, and also announced a commercial partnership with Walmart for deliveries, according...

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Arizona Autonomous Vehicle Tests Build On World’s Fair Legacy
Arizona Autonomous Vehicle Tests Build On World’s Fair Legacy
December 06, 2018  |  Retail

Moonshot ideas don’t go from a dream to a business overnight: Take self-driving cars, a concept that took decades to come to commercial fruition. General...

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Last Mile Sputters Amid Amazon’s eCommerce Haul, Delivery Driver Shortage
Last Mile Sputters Amid Amazon’s eCommerce Haul, Delivery Driver Shortage
June 20, 2018  |  Delivery

The trend is your friend, goes a saying in the stock market. The trend toward a driver shortage, though, is no one’s friend along the...

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Bpost Inks Cross-Border Delivery Deal With DHL
Bpost Inks Cross-Border Delivery Deal With DHL
May 30, 2018  |  Partnerships / Acquisitions

Belgian Post Group (Bpost), the Belgian postal operator, announced Wednesday (May 30) that it is joining forces with DHL to provide eCommerce deliveries in the...

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Toyota Enters Delivery Biz With Amazon, Uber Partnership
Toyota Enters Delivery Biz With Amazon, Uber Partnership
January 09, 2018  |  Delivery

Toyota has moved one step closer to making its self-driving cars a reality, partnering with several companies – including Amazon – to develop the vehicles...

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