Software & Technology: Page 302

Software & Technology

Walmart Invests $50 Million on Online Grocery Delivery with New Dada in China

News of the investment comes a day after Wal-Mart and JD.com announced their collaboration on three new services -- exclusive Sam’s Club and Global Imports stores on JD.com, and two-hour grocery delivery through New Dada.

Wal-Mart CEO Doug McMillon announced a strategic investment in New Dada with Philip Kuai, CEO of New Dada.

How The Internet of Things Transforms TMS

IoT improves carrier connectivity, enhances asset visibility and brings more business intelligence.

telogis 58066fb0bba6b

Ocean Ports & Carriers

IoT Technology Uplifts Container Tracking

Improving monitoring capabilities prompt ocean carriers to invest intelligent containers.

Traxens remote monitoring technology was implemented on some containers on board the Bougainville, CMA CGM’s flagship vessel.

Emerging Technologies

IBM, Wal-Mart and Chinese University Collaborate to Track Food on Blockchain

Chinese food safety practices have raised concern about contamination in China and in countries where Chinese food products are imported, and the new project aims to trace the movement of meat, vegetables and other products.

Blockchain technology, which powers the digital currency bitcoin, enables data sharing across a network of individual computers. It has gained popularity worldwide due to its usefulness in recording and keeping track of assets across practically all industries.

Does Online Grocery Shopping Lead to Higher Retail Prices?

Forrester Research, Inc.

Why not going to your grocery store could actually cost you more at checkout.

Walmart will start with tests of grocery delivery through Uber in Phoenix, Ariz., and Lyft in Denver, Colo., which it expects to start within the next two weeks. This is in addition to a Sam’s Club pilot that started in March with Deliv involving delivery of general merchandise and grocery for business members in Miami, Fla.

Zombie Dispatch: Omnitracs Creates Video Game to Show Importance of Human Truck Drivers

Omnitracs | Solera Fleet Solutions

Driver Dan has to make his way across a 500-mile trek to deliver valuable medicine that will save mankind and ward of the Zombie Apocalypse.

Can you get life-saving medicine across the country in order to save the World from the Zombie Apocalypse?

Ocean Ports & Carriers

U.S. Commerce Secretary Calls Out Port of L.A., Long Beach on Shipment Tracking

“We need to continue to up our game, we are not at the kind of world-class level that we need to be at,” said U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker.

Long Beach Port 546e3852d724d

Shipping Logistics Startup FourKites Raises $13 Million in Funding

The startup focuses primarily on trucking, but plans to eventually expand into rail and ocean transportation in the future, as well as shipments that use more than one method of travel.

Government regulations aimed at promoting food safety have spurred the use of sensors to measure temperature, and FourKites wants to tap into those data sources to do predictive modeling for its customers.

Amazon to Open More Brick-and-Mortor Grocery Stores

The e-commerce behemoth continues to cause havoc in the food and beverage sector, as insiders say several planned sites are already in the works and they will include curbside grocery pickup and convenience stores that will sell perishables.

If it now opens brick-and-mortar grocery locations, Amazon would appear to be acknowledging that some kinds of purchases just might not be well-suited for the doorstep-delivery model.

Walmart on Pace for 10 New Giant Warehouses to Compete with Amazon

As part of the project, Walmart will rely on eight massive e-commerce warehouses around the country, the last of which will be built by year’s end. It will also tap regional carriers to deliver more of its packages, say people familiar with the matter.

Amazon India Boss Says E-Commerce Focus is on Groceries, Not Mobile Phones

Amazon India leader Amit Agarwal says their new focus on grocery means Amazon is well positioned to take advantage of the trend that e-commerce in India was at an inflection point with the online purchase of items of daily use becoming a habit.

Air Transport Services Group (ATSG) has been running trials of a fully customized air cargo network for Amazon since last summer.

Software & Technology

New and Innovative Bluetooth (BLE) Smart Temperature Tag

Netoria Technologies

ef2624 b2600447e41e4f57b28f7a551c768364 57ebf10545ae1

Page 302 of 442