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TikTok Creating Fulfillment Network in U.S., Globally

Multichannel Merchant

from Seattle to Austin to Los Angeles, San Francisco and Mountain View, CA and Washington, D.C. Based on the listing titles, Seattle, Los Angeles and Mountain View seem to be where facilities will be located here initially, as well as in London, Bangkok, Madrid and São Paulo.

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Is The Creative Class Coming To A City Near You?

Supply Chain Insights

I made a list and wrote Seattle, San Francisco, and Austin. This is more than just birds of a feather flocking together in a few places on the planet (Silicon Valley, Boston’s Route 128, The Triangle in North Carolina, Austin, Seattle, Bangalore, Dublin and Sweden to name a few) and having an impact. Then I thought, dang!

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Are We Losing Our Jobs to Robots? Each 1 Costs 6 Jobs, a New Study Says

BlueYonder

Austin based startup is gunning to be the next FedEx killer instead of UberRush. Dropoff, an Austin-based startup, has expanded into five different states and 12 cities in the last two years , CEO Sean Spector told Business Insider. Wal-Mart is beating the pants off Amazon in apparel, and it’s fighting to keep it that way.

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Are We Losing Our Jobs to Robots? Each 1 Costs 6 Jobs, a New Study Says

BlueYonder

Austin based startup is gunning to be the next FedEx killer instead of UberRush. Dropoff, an Austin-based startup, has expanded into five different states and 12 cities in the last two years , CEO Sean Spector told Business Insider. Wal-Mart is beating the pants off Amazon in apparel, and it’s fighting to keep it that way.

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This Week in Supply Chain Management Tech July 14 2022

Supply Chain Matters

Tesla itself continues plans to ramp-up the newly opened Austin, Texas EV assembly facility, and plans to include different battery technology than that produced at the Nevada Gigafactory facility. Panasonic’s new cylindrical 4680 battery technology is noted to be larger and more powerful than previous versions.

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This Week in Logistics News (September 28 – October 2, 2015)

Talking Logistics

Amazon Flex is available now in Seattle. It will be available soon in New York, Baltimore, Miami, Dallas, Austin, Chicago, Indianapolis, Atlanta and Portland. You can choose any available 2, 4, and 8 hour blocks of time to work the same day, or set availability for up to 12 hours per day for the future.

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High-Tech Nation: How Technological Innovation Shapes America’s 435 Congressional Districts

GlobalTranz

iconic places, such as the Route 128 tech corridor around Boston, Massachusetts; Research Triangle Park in Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Austin, Texas; Seattle, Washington; and, of course, California’s white-hot Silicon Valley.