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Amazon.com, Inc.'s (NASDAQ: AMZN) need for personnel to staff its package delivery network is so acute that it is looking inside its four walls to recruit them. The Seattle-based e-taling giant announced on May 13 that it will pay each qualified employee up to $10,000 in start-up costs to...

Convey, the six-year-old company trying to reinvent supply chains, has announced a partnership with MercuryGate that it said will improve the last-mile delivery experience for shippers and end customers. Convey's Delivery Experience Management (DEM) software will be integrated into MercuryGate...

Domino's Pizza Inc. (NYSE: DPZ) operations in Malaysia and Singapore have partnered with SingularityNET, a platform for artificial intelligence (AI) services, to use decentralized AI to improve its last-mile delivery process. Though retail businesses working within the food niche like...

Dolly, an on-demand precision delivery startup, has raised $7.5 million in its Series B investment round led by Unlock Venture Partners, with original investors Maveron and Jeff Wilke, CEO of Amazon Worldwide Consumer division, joining in the new financing targeted at scaling up Dolly's same-...

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) will now be delivering to the trunks of Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F) automobiles. Ford said yesterday that owners of eligible vehicles can now receive packages ordered through Amazon's "Prime" service delivered to their cars' locations. The so-called...

FreightWaves is providing a forum – Market Voices – for a number of market experts. Cathy Morrow Roberson is a market analyst with a research and economics background. Roberson began her career as a librarian; she was then an analyst at an e-commerce start-up; and was an analyst at...

Retail giant Walmart Inc (NYSE: WMT) responded to Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN)'s one-day shipping announcement with an offer of its own— a similar one-day shipping offer without an annual membership fee. What Happened Amazon last week said it will invest $800 million to offer paying...

What makes Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) such a formidable competitor, and sometimes a ruthless partner, is that just when the rest of American retailing and logistics thinks they have caught up with its strategy and execution, it has already moved miles down the road. The 800-pound gorilla of...

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) reported a notable beat on the profit line in its first-quarter results, although management's operating profit outlook for the second quarter fell short of expectations. Here is a summary of how some of the Street's top analysts reacted to the print. The...

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The garage is about to become the largest parcel locker in America. E-tailer Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Chamberlain Group, the maker of garage door openers and remote control devices, announced a joint venture to give Amazon delivery drivers access to residences by opening the garage...

  Good Day, Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is ceasing operations in China after a decade long struggle for market dominance with the local ecommerce incumbents. Amazon.cn, Amazon's Chinese site, will shut doors on July 18 this year, after which domestic sellers on the platform...

  Since the advent of e-commerce, the last-mile delivery segment has come under considerable scrutiny, as rising consumer expectations have forced businesses to expedite delivery. Companies look to do this in several ways like automating warehouses, setting up inventories close to cities,...

  The introduction of electronic logging devices (ELD) to the freight industry has led to many other companies creating complementary products using the data these devices collect. Bolt System is one of those companies. Bolt, a fleet management and freight tracking software company with an...