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Walmart is creating a startup incubator charged with developing cutting-edge retail technologies as part of a wider drive to modernize its supermarkets and challenge Amazon in the online digital e-commerce sector.

In a move that underscores its growing ambitions in the logistics industry, Amazon.com, Inc. will soon start offering air cargo services to Chinese retail vendors on its e-commerce site.

Amazon global logistics will run on Infor, says the enterprise software giant, which expects to finish moving core products to multi-tenant SaaS this year.

This industry expert panel provides an update on all the market shifts in store for parcel shippers, especially when it comes to pricing, service and managing an e-commerce centric supply chain.

While last mile carriers receive much of the attention, the traditional modal heavyweights are in charge of connecting the growing web of facilities that enable e-commerce. Today, all modes as well as freight intermediaries must be poised for growth and flexible enough to keep evolving.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a staggering success story; you could reasonably argue that it's actually Amazon's most important business, but so many companies and services rely on it that it ripples across the entire world when it goes down.

Amazon has become near-synonymous with online shopping in the US, but it’s barely a blip in the Chinese market, and according to a recent report, Amazon’s China site holds less than 1% of the country’s $378 billion e-commerce business in terms of market share.

As we note in the news section, a small regional airport will help handle the demand from Amazon Prime members for just-in-time delivery. At the same time, it will generate badly-needed jobs.

The shipping giant is investing in autonomous trucks, and is interested in delivery robots and an Alexa app.

A new centralized air hub at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky Airport (CVG) in Hebron will help the company meet demand from Amazon Prime members for fast, reliable delivery.

Armed with licenses from both China and the U.S., the online retailer is now positioned to buy space on container ships at wholesale rates and resell at retail rates, which will allow the company to connect two of the world’s largest markets while cutting out competitors.

Amazon has begun shipping products from Chinese merchant partners to its U.S. warehouses via ocean freighters, this is something it used to outsource exclusively, and another piece of the overall shipping and logistics picture that it’s now controlling directly, at least in part.

Amazon.com, Inc. yesterday announced plans to open its first fulfillment center in Colorado, with the one-million square foot facility in Aurora is expected to create more than 1,000 new full-time jobs,

Already one of the country’s biggest employers, Amazon plans to grow its full-time U.S.-based workforce from 180,000 in 2016 to over 280,000 by mid-2018, and with over 10,000 military veterans already work at Amazon and last year the company pledged to hire and train an additional 25,000 veterans and military spouses over the next five years.

RBC Capital Markets analyst Mark Mahaney thinks Amazon is in a good position to continue to grow as a company, here are his remarks as a presenter for Business Insider's Ignition conference.