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Amazon Reportedly Focusing on Expanding its Delivery Trial Offering Threatening FedEx & UPS
According to Bloomberg, Amazon is expanding its FBA Onsite service, previously called Seller Flex, to make more groceries, cleaning supplies and other products available for quick delivery directly from merchants without overwhelming the e-commerce giant’s warehouses with additional inventory, according.
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Amazon vs Uber: Two Technology Giants Disrupting Logistics
By trademachines ·
March 12, 2018
Autonomous trucks and cars, delivery drones, on-demand services, logistics is changing, view this infographic and discover how Uber and Amazon are attempting to disrupt this $8.1 trillion market.
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Digital Freight Matching Services & Technologies
“Uber for freight,” “On-demand trucking,” call it what you want, but the race to develop mobile apps to match an available truck with a pending load is heating up, and the players are well-funded and looking to stand out in an already saturated market.
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Uber Freight: Another “Uber-for-Trucking”?
By Zvi Schreiber, CEO of Freightos ·
October 31, 2016
With the news that Uber is unleashing a trucking offering, it came as no surprise when it launched Uber Freight, an online trucking marketplace for US Less-than-Truckload.
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FedEx Isn’t Worried About Amazon or Uber Delivery
By Jillian D'Onfro ·
June 19, 2015
Having a uniformed person with proper identification showing up at your doorstep is an important issue for customers says Mike Glenn, executive vice president of FedEx.
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New Crowdsourced Delivery Models Pose Serious Challenges to UPS, FedEx, and USPS Monopolies
By Jennifer Booton ·
June 23, 2015
The millennial generation is much less loyal to legacy brands than generations past, and data shows consumers are hungrier for better, faster and more transparent shipping and delivery services, and they don’t much care who provides it.
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‘Uber for Logistics’ is Already Happening in Asia, and Uber is Getting Left Behind
By Josh Horwitz ·
June 16, 2014
The excitement over the amorphous future of logistics is best exemplified by Uber, one of the most forward-thinking and controversial firms of this era.
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The Emerging “Uberization” of Dynamic On-Demand Warehousing for eCommerce
By Amitabh Sinha ·
November 03, 2016
Dynamic on-demand warehousing involves buying warehousing services on a pay-per-use basis, and just as with Uber and AirBnB, exemplars of today’s “on-demand” economy, users and providers meet and transact with each other via an online marketplace.
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Uber’s Next Transportation Disruption Flying Cars
Uber is making its vertical take-off and landing plans more concrete via new partnerships announced during its Elevate conference focused on the VTOL industry.
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Amazon Expanding “On-Demand” Delivery Service
Amazon.com Inc is quietly inviting drivers for its new "on-demand" delivery service to handle its standard packages, as the online retailer known for low prices and razor-thin profit margins looks to speed up delivery times and tamp down its growing multi-billion dollar logistics bill.
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Amazon Building an ‘Uber Like’ App to Connect Truckers with Shippers
Amazon is reportedly building a mobile app that matches truck drivers with shippers, a new service that would deepen its presence in the $800 billion trucking industry, and possibly go head-to-head with companies like Convoy.
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Full Service Trucking Company Convoy Hires Former Uber Engineering Chief
By John Cook ·
February 02, 2017
The Seattle startup Convoy, which matches trucking companies with shippers that need to move freight, has hired Uber’s former Seattle Software Engineering chief Tim Prouty as head of engineering.
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Amazon Developing a Uber-Style Delivery Service
By Jillian D'Onfro ·
June 29, 2015
In its ongoing effort to get packages to consumers as quickly as possible, Amazon may soon employ an Uber-like crowdsourced app that uses ordinary people as delivery drivers.
Transportation
Amazon’s New Status as an Ocean Freight Forwarder
Amazon.com Inc's China arm has registered as an ocean freight forwarder, according to the U.S. Federal Maritime Commission, a move that will give it more control over shipping products from Chinese factories to U.S. shoppers.
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Is Amazon Creating Self-Driving Cars for Delivery?
Over the past two years, Amazon has been seeking to take over more shipping duties from the likes of UPS and FedEx by leasing trucks, planes, and ships, and now the e-commerce giant could be eyeing driverless car technology as a way to get items to people's doors faster.
