Faire on Wednesday announced it has raised US$150 million in venture capital. Lightspeed Venture Partners and Founders Fund jointly led the Series D funding round. Existing investors Forerunner Ventures, YC Continuity and Khosla Ventures also were involved. Faire will use the money to expand into new markets, improve the Faire marketplace, and build more tools […]
Posted by Erik Klein, Platform Product Marketing Manager Posted by Erik Klein, Product Manager, SuiteCloud Platform What on earth is Graal? Hint, it’s not a videogame character or specialized woodworking tool. It’s a modern runtime solution from Oracle Labs, and it’s incredibly flexible. Imagine a single virtual machine that supports multiple languages like Java, Node.js, […]
Lastminute.com books a more vacation-based future with Cloudinary Jessica Twentyman Thu, 10/31/2019 – 06:15 Summary: The online travel company is using the cloud-based media management platform to serve up tempting images to would-be holiday makers. Pictures of vibrant and enticing destinations sell vacations. With Lastminute.com on a mission to grab market share from tour operators […]
Researchers at MIT’s Center for Transportation and Logistics worked with a freight services company that specializes in last-mile deliveries of large parcels to address this challenge. Source link
At least 250 Facebook employees signed a letter to CEO Mark Zuckerberg criticizing the company’s hands-off policy against fact-checking ads posted by politicians. “We don’t believe that it’s an appropriate role for us to referee political debates and prevent a politician’s speech from reaching its audience and being subject to public debate and scrutiny,” said […]
NASA has issued a request for proposals for American 'logistics' companies to deliver supplies to the lunar Gateway, this effort will support the agency's Artemis lunar exploration program. Source link
It’s easy to take things you see every day for granted. We take the sun rising and setting for granted, for instance, and that’s a good thing, because it helps us organize our lives. However, in business taking things for granted is a hazard. Change is everything these days, and that means the concepts you […]
We may just be turning the calendar to November, but if you’re like most retailers, you’re already deep into planning for the gift-giving season. Black Friday and Cyber Monday are circled and starred as you anticipate, with a mixture of excitement and trepidation, the spike in sales and massive increase in traffic to your website […]
Posted by Barney Beal, Content Director When Joey Harris first came on to take over payroll administration at St. HOPE Community Schools, she had a conversation with the man who ran it before her. “I sat down with him and asked his pain points,â€� she recalled during the SuiteConnect19 event in San Francisco in September. […]
SMC³ have found shippers using their Bid$ense tool, and remove the manual aspects of finding and sourcing freight transportation, also receive responses from a wider net of carriers, up to 30 on average. Source link
