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Over 10 years, President Trump has promised to generate $1 trillion in infrastructure spending, and with two of his other top campaign pledges in trouble, infrastructure appeared to be an area ripe for bipartisan compromise, so we thought!

McLaren plans to start 3D-printing parts for its Formula 1 cars trackside at Grand Prix competitions shortly, the firm believes the technology will give it an advantage over rivals allowing it to make last-minute changes.

Ten years from now, the jobs report may look very different, CNBC's Deirdre Bosa explores how automation and robotics will change the future of the U.S. workforce.

Knight Transportation Inc. and Swift Transportation Co. have announced they are merging in an all-stock deal with a combined enterprise value of $6 billion, the combined entity will be called Knight-Swift Transportation Holdings Inc.

Analysts expect automated trucks to proliferate in the next five to ten years, leading to significant job losses in the process, but the problem is the numbers do not clearly back up the predictions.

The global food supply chain brings us exotic fresh foods from around the world, but the challenges in ensuring affordable and healthy food are enormous...here are five of the biggest hurdles and how to clear them.

Turvo announced the launch of its revolutionary "collaborative logistics" platform that empowers shippers, brokers and carriers to work together in real-time across the entire supply chain, the first real-time collaborative logistics platform that connects anyone, anywhere to move things.

Britain's departure from the EU is "an historic moment from which there can be no turning back", Theresa May has said, and leaving Europe will be challenging, but supply chains need to look for new trade opportunities.

Salesforce shows both the potential and the limits of artificial intelligence in its demonstration of Einstein Vision counting the stock in a Coca-Cola cooler.

During a time when transparency matters more than ever, enter blockchain, blockchain has the potential to become the new gold standard of business and trade, but first, all nations need to accept the new technology.

Tim Cook has talked up a lot of technologies since becoming Apple's CEO in 2011 but no technology has fired him up quite like augmented reality, which overlays images, video and games on the real world.

Sears Holdings finally admitted it probably can't survive as a going concern this week, Sears has lost over $10B since 2010 - when it last showed a profit - and owes over $4B to its creditors.

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.

Apple CEO Tim Cook gave a talk on Saturday to attendees of the China Development Forum 2017, where he offered commentary on a range of issues including globalization, economics, and data privacy.

Modcloth, a women’s online fashion retailer known for quirky, indie-inflected clothes, will be acquired by Jet.com, Jet is, in turn, owned by Walmart, the deal is part of an effort to increase Walmart's e-commerce footprint.

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.

Google's Waymo autonomous tech lawsuit against Uber and specifically against Anthony Levandowski, a former Waymo employee who left the company to start autonomous truck driving firm Otto, which Uber purchased for nearly $700 million, looks really bad for Uber.

Ford Last Mile Mobility Challenge receives proposals for over 600 electric personal assistant devices from Ford employees around the world for moving people or goods in urban areas.

The U.S. chip making giant Intel announced Monday that it had reached a deal to acquire an Israeli company called Mobileye for $15 billion, making it the biggest buy of an Israeli high-tech company ever, what does this mean for autonomous transportation?

Starsky Robotics wants to solve the primary logistical challenge for the trucking industry by taking drivers off the road and target long haul services, which is primarily highway driving with short trips from the exit to the final destination.