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Transportation

Business Wire | October 30, 2023

UPS announced today that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Happy Returns from PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL). Happy Returns is a U.S.-based software and reverse logistics company that enables frictionless, no-box, no-label returns for merchants and consumers. “We know that returns have long frustrated shoppers and retailers looking for quick and easy solutions,”...

Transportation

Cogitate Technology Solutions | October 13, 2022

Cogitate Technology Solutions ("Cogitate"), a future-ready P&C insurance technology innovator, announced that ENGS Insurance will be digitizing their systems with Cogitate DigitalEdge for their commercial transportation business. Cogitate DigitalEdge is a cloud native, full tech stack platform. DigitalEdge is powered with industry leading Low Code No Code ("LCNC") capabilities and brings pre-integrated API functionality for third-party and carri...

Logistics

SEKO Logistics | August 10, 2022

SEKO Logistics (SEKO), the leader in global end-to-end logistics solutions, announced the acquisition of Pixior, LLC. (Pixior), a leading 3PL and fulfillment services provider based in Commerce, CA. With seven locations along the West Coast, and one location in Connecticut, Pixior has become the region’s premier provider of ecommerce fulfillment and retail services, with an emphasis on serving high-end fashion brands.The acquisition of Pixior brings key ecommerce capabilities in-house to S...

Procurement and Sourcing,Freight

Convoy, J.B. Hunt Transport, Inc., and Uber Freight | December 07, 2022

Convoy, J.B. Hunt Transport, Inc., and Uber Freight announced the formation of the Scheduling Standards Consortium (SSC) which aims to solve transportation scheduling challenges by establishing the freight industry's first formal set of appointment scheduling application programming interface (API) standards. Complex, pervasive, industry-wide challenges such as this require collaborative, industry-wide solutions; the makeup of the SSC's founding members underscores the need to stan...