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Rhenus and the Middle Corridor: terminals need coordinated connections
Rhenus plans new Middle Corridor terminals. Their value depends on coordinated border, rail and port operations, beyond the capacity of individual sites.
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Editorial business coverage from the Services desk.
Courier pay and delivery channels
Advertised pay, parcel volumes and automation describe different measures.
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Power Availability Is Redrawing Russia's Data-Centre Map
Russia's data-centre slowdown shows how grid access, regional location, cooling, physical protection, cyber segregation and tested recovery now form one resilience product.
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Rolls-Royce and Bombardier Bring Live Engine Health Data to Global 5500 and 6500 Jets
Rolls-Royce and Bombardier connect up to 10,000 engine parameters with real-time aircraft data to support predictive maintenance on selected Global jets.
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Wyndham and Barclays Add a $395 Premium Card to a Four-Card Rewards Lineup
Wyndham and Barclays expand their rewards-card portfolio to four products, adding a $395 premium tier with hotel earning, status and travel credits.
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DHL Lets a Shipment Photo Do the First Draft of Customs Paperwork
DHL Express adds computer-vision item identification to MyDHL+, turning shipment photos into draft customs descriptions for customers to review.
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Manifest OS Raises $60 Million to Build Law Firms That Charge for Outcomes, Not Hours
Manifest OS raises $60 million at a $750 million valuation to expand AI-native law firms combining fixed fees, attorney review and shared operations.
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Nippon Express Pays Up to C$2.2 Billion for a North American Logistics Network
Nippon Express agrees its largest acquisition, adding Metro Supply Chain's 180-site contract-logistics network for up to C$2.2 billion including earn-out.
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America's Cold-Storage Building Boom Leaves Warehouses Empty
A five-year cold-storage building wave pushes US vacancy to a 20-year high as Lineage and Americold report softer revenue and weaker pallet volumes.
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A Dental Clinic Brings Laboratory Production In-House
An in-house dental laboratory restored control only by governing patient-specific data, design, print and mill routes, ceramics, inspection, capacity, remakes and supplier continuity.
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HappyRobot Raises $44 Million to Handle Freight's Endless Calls
HappyRobot raised $44 million to automate freight calls, rate talks and dock appointments, but its agents still need data controls and human escalation.
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AT&T Pays $23 Billion to Add Two Layers to Its Wireless Network
AT&T's $23 billion EchoStar deal combines low-band reach with mid-band capacity, but more than 400 markets still require a physical network rollout.
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Squint Raises $40 Million to Put Factory Know-How on a Phone
Squint's $40 million Series B backs mobile AI and augmented-reality guidance that brings validated factory know-how directly to industrial equipment.
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Russia's Container Trade Has a Balance Problem
Russia's shrinking container total concealed growing exports, divergent gateways and costly equipment imbalances that made round-trip economics more important than TEU.
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Amazon Sends the First 27 Production Kuiper Satellites Into Orbit
Amazon's first 27 production Kuiper satellites begin an 80-plus-launch campaign to build a 3,236-spacecraft low-Earth-orbit broadband network.
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Harvey Adds $300 Million to Bring Legal AI Into More Professional Work
Harvey raised $300 million at a $3 billion valuation to expand its governed legal-AI platform, professional workflows and international operations.
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ShopMy Raises $77.5 Million to Make Creator Marketing Measurable
ShopMy raises a $77.5 million Series B to expand measurable creator commerce after reporting $352 million in platform sales and average brand ROI of 5x.
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Whatnot Secures $265 Million for the Next Stage of Live Shopping
Whatnot raised $265 million at a $4.97 billion valuation to expand its live-shopping marketplace, seller tools, product categories and international reach.
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Europe Cannot Export Services Without Strong Factories
Europe's goods exporters lost global share as supply disruptions and energy costs exposed structural weaknesses. Services cushioned the fall, but their strongest value still depended on competitive factories.
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Baltic Terminals Give Russian Grain a Northern Export Route
New Baltic grain terminals offered Russia deeper berths, capacity for inland producing regions and a second maritime basin. Their real test was turning announced millions of tonnes into reliable rail-to-ship trade.
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One CrowdStrike Update Stopped the Windows Economy
A defective CrowdStrike update crashed affected Windows systems, exposing how trusted security software can concentrate operational and recovery risk.
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TPG Takes Control of Altimetrik With a $1 Billion Revenue Target
TPG’s majority investment gives Altimetrik capital to pursue $1 billion in annual revenue, but delivery capacity and client trust will decide the outcome.
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CData Raises $350 Million to Fix AI’s Data-Access Bottleneck
CData’s $350 million round targets the hard work of connecting fragmented business systems to analytics and AI without sacrificing control or reliability.
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Rocketlane Adds $24 Million to Build a Post-Sales Platform for Professional Services
Rocketlane raised $24 million to expand its professional-services platform, client project delivery, AI roadmap and team after reporting rapid growth.
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Warehouses Get More From Robots When People Stay in the Loop
HBR research suggests warehouses gain more efficiency by combining robots with people who manage exceptions, quality and changing operating conditions.
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Bloomberg Gives Investors Control Over Sustainable Portfolio Screens
Bloomberg’s sustainability screen lets investors define portfolio thresholds, calculate alignment and inspect holdings that fall outside their criteria.
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Fortune and Accenture Turn Two Decades of Company Data Into an AI Research Tool
Fortune Analytics combines two decades of company rankings, financial data and journalism with conversational AI and visual research developed by Accenture.
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LangSmith Opens to All Developers With Production Tools for LLM Applications
LangSmith is now generally available without a waitlist, giving LLM application teams tools for tracing, debugging, evaluation and production monitoring.
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