FreightWaves Flashback: E-shipping blues
1999: eBay ushers in e-commerce’s most dramatic distribution channel disruption in decades.
1999: eBay ushers in e-commerce’s most dramatic distribution channel disruption in decades.
E-commerce platform eBay has extended agreements for Pitney Bowes to continue providing cross-border shipping services to eBay customers.
People hate doing things themselves. Today we have cars that are self-driving, microwaves that are self-cleaning, thermostats that are self-adjusting – even sentences that are self-completing. Automation is just about […]
The online payment platform boosted its outlook for total payment volume, but guidance was largely unchanged.
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Vendoo’s technology allows resellers to list items on multiple marketplaces like eBay, The Real Real and Poshmark while streamlining the listing process.
Amazon’s Prime offering, with its shipment tracking and fast delivery, continues to add pressure to other retailers to match the service. Technology can help up their shipment games, making for happier and returning customers.
AfterShip, an e-commerce tracking and post-purchase solutions company, has secured a $66 million Series B investment round, bringing its total funding to $69 million.
By the time entrenched incumbents awaken to the threats posed by newly developed general purpose technologies (GPTs), a crop of challengers who had no option but to adopt the new GPT at the outset has become powerful enough to threaten the financial stability of an industry.
eBay sellers to have access to broader range of UPS services through integration initiative.
But many sellers still in the lurch as the e-giant limits shipments to essential products
Misdeclared cargo is a big problem for air carriers when it comes to dangerous goods like lithium batteries. Regulators are too complacent when it comes to enforcement, airfreight industry groups claim.
Companies from Amazon to Zulily agree to help Customs and Border Protection figure out how to identify and target high-risk shipments.
Global e-commerce continues to grow, and grow, and grow. Market voice Brian Aoaeh writes about the move of e-commerce giants to establish their own fulfillment services.
Get ready for the goodies coming from federal transport spending legislation. Money for inland waterway network will be funds well spent.
eBay’s Managed Delivery will outsource warehousing, transport, and packaging services.
eBay to launch fulfillment, delivery service for high-volume US users
Deliverr is helping businesses ship products on ecommerce platforms with an Amazon-like fulfillment service.