Urban Mobility
Symphony helps companies like Gatorade and Hershey’s manage their web business, is raising $11 million to grow its fulfilment business., helping these brands to speed up last-mile deliveries. Symphony Commerce, provides the developer tools to create and run these websites, sees themselves as a “commerce-as-a-service” business. They help beverage companies and fashion brands with everything from web design to inventory management.
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Brad Lorge is the co-founder of Premonition, a logistics optimisation firm helping online retailers and shipping companies meet heightened consumer expectations and develop more sustainable supply chains. Premonition’s technology can optimise large job sets, rerouting multiple vehicles in real-time based on a plethora of factors: changed traffic conditions, weather, delivery windows, incoming orders and returns, truck capacity, a driver’s final destination
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Amazon.com Inc. unveiled the first in a planned fleet of new cargo jets on Thursday, part of an effort by the e-commerce giant to expand its logistics operation. The Boeing 767-300, emblazoned with “Prime Air” on its fuselage, is to be operated by Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings Inc. It is one of 40 that Amazon has agreed to lease as it broadens its system for shipping and
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Both Alphabet and Amazon have committed to developing autonomous drones that can deliver packages with minimal human oversight. As part of a White House initiative aimed at bolstering the drone industry, Alphabet’s Project Wing has announced that it will begin testing its delivery drones, or UAVs, at one of the six FAA-approved test sites here in the US. Development of
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