Category Future of Mobile Technologies & StartUps

CargoX CEO Federico Vega plans to Uberize the Trucking Industry : Federico Vega, CargoX founder and CEO, talks about disrupting the way truckers do business in Brazil by making the freight market more efficient.

Alibaba in $16b logistics bet as Bill Gates goes a-milkin’ : SenseTime and Pine Labs scored big in their latest funding rounds, Alibaba promised to drive down logistics costs, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation backed a dairy industry tech startup.

Convoy Introduces Power-Only Program and Universal Trailer Pool : Today, we are excited to announce a new program that will unlock business opportunities for small carriers and owner-operators, helping them access more loads and spend more time with their trucks full

The Challenges of Last Mile Logistics & Delivery Technology Solutions : Same-day last mile shipping; one of businesses' biggest expense and challenge

U2's Bono and the Edge Invest in Convoy's Tech Network of Smaller Trucking Companies : Convoy has built what the company calls

38% Of American Cars Were Electric In 1900 : In our modern era, we may assume that electric cars are new technology. Tesla vehicles are certainly cutting-edge automobiles, right? But there was a period in America a long time ago when about 30% of all cars were electric.

Brazilian Parcel Logistics Startup Mandaê Raises USD $7.1 Million Series B from World Bank Group’s IFC, UPS, Mercado Libre and Others to Reinvent Parcel Logistics : Mandaê announced it has closed a USD $7.1 million Series B round led by IFC, a member of the World Bank Group

Unicorn Startup Flexport Raises $100 Million in Funding from SF Express to Expand Global Logistics Operations : Full-service global freight forwarder and logistics platform startup, Flexport, announced today it has raised $100 million in funding from SF Express

China’s Uber for Trucks Is Said to Raise $1.9 Billion in Funding : Full Truck Alliance Group, China’s biggest app for Uber-like truck services, raised $1.9 billion in funding to fuel its expansion, people familiar with the matter said.

Port 2060 - Kalmar’s Vision for the Sustainable Future of Cargo Handling : Kalmar has revised its vision for Port 2060 and is launching a new video to depict how the sustainable future of cargo handling will look like in the year 2060