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Amazon is planning to offer internet service to areas with poor coverage globally by the end of the year, a move that could bring in billions of dollars in new ...

eCommerce logistics platform HIVED has raised $42 million in new funding. The U.K.-based company said its Series B round, announced Monday (July 7), will allow it to scale nationwide as it ...

Freightos and Seko Logistics are expanding their partnership to improve the speed and accuracy of multimodal shipments worldwide. Seko is scaling its use of Freightos’ 7LFreight and WebCargo forwarder solutions, ...

The wheels of commerce in the trucking and transportation industry are increasingly turning on the speed of payments, a shift driven by operational needs and drivers themselves. The “Money Mobility Tracker” ...

Jeff Bezos is getting married this weekend. The Amazon founder has spared no expense, reportedly buying out much of the luxury accommodations in Venice, Italy, for his wedding to Lauren ...

Schneider Electric is doubling down on artificial intelligence (AI), automation and digital transformation as it pushes beyond Industry 4.0 into the era of Industry 5.0 — a vision that places ...

It’s easy to assume that every corporate problem has an AI-first solution just waiting in the wings. But as geopolitical unrest, tariff turbulence and continued volatility disrupt global logistics, many CFOs ...

FedEx found that its data and its digital platform-based solutions helped the company and its customers navigate the challenges of tariffs and changing trade policies during the most recent quarter. The ...

The everything consumer requires an everything retailer, and that’s the pole position that retail giants Amazon and Walmart have been battling for over the past two decades. The rivalry between Amazon ...

Many innovations have a crucial graduation date: when they move from speculative R&D to real-world deployment and utility. One of the more significant transitions underway is the rise of “autonomy as ...

If you thought the future of eCommerce delivery was all about electric vans and AI-powered routing, think again. The sky — quite literally — is the new frontier for last-mile ...

Think consumers are worried about how much more they’ll pay this summer for a new sofa or barbecue grill thanks to the President Donald Trump administration’s global trade war? Consider the ...

Artificial intelligence logistics software startup Pallet raised $27 million in a Series B funding round led by General Catalyst, according to a Tuesday (May 27) press release. Logistics is an $11 ...

Walmart said Thursday (May 22) that it opened its largest centralized prescription fulfillment facility and plans to add two more. The new Central Fill pharmacy location is in Frederick, Maryland, and ...

In the not-so-distant past, the B2B world ran on manual processes, spreadsheets and trust built over handshakes. Supply chains were static, finance departments reactive, and technological disruption was mostly a ...

Not long ago, supply chain management was viewed as the silent, dusty backbone of commerce. Essential, yes, but hardly worthy of mainstream attention. Then came the pandemic, and suddenly, everyone from ...

Uber reportedly plans to launch a B2B logistics service in India. The company will do so “soon” in partnership with an Indian government-backed nonprofit, the Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC), ...

Stord said Monday (May 19) that it completed its acquisition of Ware2Go, a subsidiary of UPS, expanding the volume and reach of Stord’s fulfillment network. The deal adds 21 new fulfillment centers to ...

Last month, Chinese tech conglomerate Alibaba debuted a fast delivery service it dubbed “instant commerce.” On the company’s earnings call Thursday (May 15), analysts wanted to know: Why now, especially given ...

Amazon will have FedEx deliver large packages to the retailer’s customers for the first time in six years. The companies reached a multiyear agreement that renews a relationship that ended in ...

The B2B landscape is built on sales cycles. But as trade dynamics shift the operating landscape, buyers and suppliers alike are finding themselves forced to shift their tactics. What was ...

Criminals are reportedly exploiting supply chain technology to steal truckloads of products. They are using online platforms to facilitate “strategic theft,” a form of cargo theft in which fraudsters impersonate legitimate companies, book ...

Logistics is having its moment in the limelight. What was once an invisible force is now becoming an essential, and increasingly visible, pillar of global commerce. It’s a silent but powerful ...

Amazon debuted Vulcan, a fulfillment center robot with a sense of touch, according to a Wednesday (May 7) blog post. The average robot is “numb and dumb,” particularly those operating in ...

Rite Aid has claimed in a court filing Tuesday (May 6) that its inability to sustain a successful recovery and its subsequent return to bankruptcy protection is primarily due to ...

Payments FinTech Nuvei is expanding its B2B payment capabilities for the construction sector. The expansion, announced Tuesday (May 6), includes new integration support for Sage Intacct Construction Real Estate (CRE), building ...

Retailers and brands in the United States and abroad are bracing for a turbulent back half of 2025. Tariffs and their escalating impact on everything from sourcing to pricing strategy to ...

Temu has reportedly stopped shipping products from China directly to U.S. consumers due to the elimination of the de minimis exemption that had shielded small packages from U.S. tariffs. “This shift ...

The efforts of third-party sellers on platforms like Amazon to stock up on goods to avoid the cost of tariffs will reportedly work for only a limited time. Because shoppers are ...

Amazon said Wednesday (April 30) that it will invest over $4 billion to expand its rural delivery network and provide faster delivery to millions of customers in less densely populated ...

Economic uncertainty is the sentiment du jour in global supply chains as a result of the tariff wars, but consumer spending remains resilient for now, according to the CEOs of ...

United Parcel Service (UPS) entered 2025 navigating the currents of a rapidly evolving logistics landscape. “We are focusing on controlling what we can control and executing our strategy to improve long-term ...

While retailers in the United States have kept prices low despite tariffs, they say the situation can’t last. That’s according to a report Tuesday (April 29) by The Wall Street Journal ...

UPS and Figure AI are reportedly considering a partnership in which the robotics startup’s humanoid robots would perform some tasks in the logistics company’s operations. Discussions between the two companies are ...

Discount eTailers Temu and Shein reportedly raised prices in response to new U.S. tariffs. Temu started adding “import charges” of about 145%, while Shein raised prices without adding a separate charge, ...

Small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) can be squeezed from a new direction each day. Some of those squeezes are starting to hurt, particularly the U.S. tariffs on foreign trade. As tariff regimes ...

WEX has added a feature that enables fleets with electric vehicles (EVs) to use the WEX Fleet Card at private chargers. With the addition of this feature, WEX EV Depot, WEX now ...

Walmart plans to be able to deliver to 95% of Americans within three hours by the end of the year, President and CEO Doug McMillon wrote in his annual letter to shareholders ...

FedEx CEO Raj Subramaniam said Thursday (April 24) that the logistics giant is using advanced data analytics and AI to navigate complex global trade disruptions — the latest of which ...

As the digital and physical worlds of commerce continue to intertwine, Amazon and Walmart are reinventing themselves at a blistering pace. What was once a head-to-head contest for online supremacy ...

Across boardrooms and tech hubs alike, digital innovation, shifting global trade policies, and the relentless drive of small businesses are colliding, creating new imperatives for CFOs and treasurers alike. It ...

UPS plans to strengthen its global offerings in complex healthcare logistics by acquiring Andlauer Healthcare Group (AHG), a Canada-based supply chain management company focused on solutions for the healthcare sector. UPS ...

Trade uncertainty, canal closures and shipping rate volatility or not, shipments still need to get delivered. On Wednesday (April 23) global freight booking and payment platform Freightos introduced Freightos Enterprise. A ...

Danish FinTech company Cardlay joined the Visa Ready partner program to help businesses manage their fleet expenses with native digital B2B fleet card management and integrated spend management. The collaboration brings ...

Many United States businesses involved in global trade are experiencing a sea of change and a sea change. The President Donald Trump administration doubled down on tariffs with its reinstated Section ...