Grocery stores curtail hours and enforce limits on staple purchases as coronavirus-induced panic buying empties store shelves of many items. High-touch retailers shutter stores.
Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) announced today that it is closing all its retail stores outside China in response to the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic. The company has about 500 stores globally and had previously shut its China stores during the outbreak in that country. Those stores reopened today. The question now is, will other retailers follow suit […]
Brian Aoaeh explores the vulnerability of supply chains in an interconnected world that is threatened by a potential pandemic.
The trade war between the U.S. and China caused companies to adapt supply chains and the transportation of their products. Darren Prokop writes about those changes and their impacts.
Daimler Trucks and Torc Robotics are expanding autonomous driving tests on new routes, plus the outlook for diesel prices remains stable, coronavirus to hit Apple earnings and the Dairy Farmers of America may have saved the day.
For two years the software company’s sanctions screening failed to detect a Slovenian app store developer and its owner who were placed on the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List.
When Jim Handoush was growing up, he thought he was destined to work for Apple, which was in its infancy at the time. Today, Handoush doesn’t work at Apple, but is now helping guide the ship for another startup that is hoping to be just as disruptive.
It’s the first day of fall, and that’s not all. You’re gearing up your week by hammering down with the latest headlines and analysis of what in the world is going on out there in freight and tech and data. Kevin Hill kills us with the Pricing Power Index. JP takes on super duper Dooner […]
Hours before self-driving start-up Drive-ai was scheduled to close its doors and lay off all of its staff, Apple swooped in to buy the company.
Apple is looking to buy autonomous driving technology startup Drive.ai, which might help the company gain ground against its bigger competitors in the self-driving niche.
Foxconn Technology Group (OTC US: FXCNY) created more uncertainty for its suppliers on Friday when it announced that it’s recommitting to building a liquid crystal display monitor (LCD) factory in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin according to the Wall Street Journal.
Apple’s manufacturing partner Foxconn Technology Group, which assembles Apple’s iPhone product in China, announced on Saturday that it has raised over $213 million for what it described as a “mega-development” in India.
FedEx promises fast action to fix FedEx Express’ TNT Express network.
The first week of 2019 saw three of America’s largest companies announce revenue expectation reductions, signaling a potential cooling of the U.S. shipping market.
Among news of poor performance in the Chinese economy, one of the most distressing signals for foreign retailers and manufacturers is Apple’s announcement on Wednesday that the company had reduced revenue expectations due to poor iPhone sales in China.
Cashflow Corner presented by TriumphPay …A creature from the Black Lagoon, George Washington’s desk, and a 10-foot gold-plated harp are just a few of the odd things hauled by truck drivers, according to the 2018 King of the Road survey from Atlas Van Lines.
Last week, Volvo Trucks announced that it would soon be adding Apply CarPlay to its lineup as an optional package. More connected trucks will soon become commonplace, and maybe in the commercial transportation space, technologies such as this, Android Auto and WiFi will be welcomed additions.
Apple CEO Tim Cook confirmed in a Bloomberg interview on Tuesday that the company is working on autonomous technology, further fueling speculation that the software giant is developing a self-driving Apple car.
