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Founder and CEO Bill Catania on solving for capacity, price discovery and visibility OneRail, the last-mile software-as-a-service platform that connects point-of-sale order information directly to a network of 7.5 million couriers, announced Tuesday morning that it had raised a $9 million Series A...

DoorDash Inc. (NYSE: DASH) has been hit with a lawsuit in Chicago for defrauding customers into paying higher prices for delivery services. The case could give justification for other cities to do the same. What Happened: In the pandemic, food delivery services became one of the most convenient...

They say every company is now a technology company. That modern adage of the business world has proved profitable for its followers as e-commerce has swept the globe over the past few years. But that increased order volume has contributed to the sister trend of supply chain backups, a contemporary...

The gig economy is slowly but steadily becoming a nationwide battleground. Uber and Lyft, two of the industry's power players, made headlines last month when a number of their drivers across the country took to the streets in protest, bringing national attention to what the protesters consider low...

Same-day delivery firm Point Pickup Technologies has acquired GrocerKey, a white label e-commerce technology platform. Point Pickup expects the acquisition to provide it an end-to-end e-commerce platform, from pick-and-pack to last-mile delivery. Terms were not disclosed. "With almost 68 million...

A2Z Drone Delivery is already seeing success with its Rapid Delivery System (RDS1) tether drop system, and now it is adding a dual-drop commercial drone to complete the package. The company on Wednesday announced the commercial launch of the RDSX for drone delivery applications. The RDSX was...

Pilot Freight Services, a logistics provider backed by private equity, announced Monday it has acquired expedited less-than-truckload carrier American Linehaul to provide intercity capacity for its growing e-commerce business. American Linehaul runs a scheduled airport-to-airport, LTL linehaul...

The New York Shipping Exchange (NYSHEX) is supporting the transformation of container shipping by solving inefficiencies associated with booking downfalls and shipment rollings. To learn more visit nyshex.com Mike Baudendistel is getting his fill of food on this episode of The Stockout. He...

An annual rite of passage is upon us: peak season surcharges. UPS (NYSE: UPS), FedEx (NYSE: FDX), and the U.S. Postal Service have all announced their peak season surcharges in the past month. The surcharges are designed to provide additional revenue during peak shipping times, such as the holiday...

FedEx Corp. will again attempt to whack its big customers with hefty delivery surcharges this holiday season. But the carrier is going about things a little differently than its competition. FedEx (NYSE: FDX) has set two cycles in the calendar to apply residential delivery surcharges: The first...

For all the triumphs and successes that the logistics field has seen this year, there's one area where it needs to make up some ground: sustainability. Freight and other modes of logistics transportation are a big driver of pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, accounting for over half of the...

E-commerce is continuing its strong performance in 2021, but the companies responsible for getting those packages to consumer doorsteps continue to be plagued by challenges, including a lack of drivers. The Bureau of Labor Statistics said courier jobs climbed to 1,006,400 on a seasonal basis in...

While Dana von der Heide and Arne Jeroschewski were working to improve e-commerce logistics within Asia Pacific at DHL, the pair realized advancing the experience for retailers could not be done with just one carrier.  This inspired them to step away from DHL and co-found Parcel Perform, a...

If you look up while walking on a college campus, you'll most likely see a flurry of activity – students riding to class on bikes, athletes zipping around on scooters, Subway sandwiches and Frappuccinos cruising around on miniature delivery robots — hold on, what? You read that correctly. There's...

In 2004 in the city of Chicago, two hungry web developers were working on the next multibillion-dollar concept. Matt Maloney and Mike Evans are better known today as the founders of Grubhub, the app that got the ball rolling for the world of online food delivery platforms. A decade later, Doordash...