How Nike and US manufacturer Flex's plan to automate sneaker production in Guadalajara ran into trouble, with factory robots struggling to handle soft materials
Human workers can adapt to such challenges, but it proved difficult for machines” — www.wsj.com/economy/trad... X: Jonathan Cheng / @jchengwsj : @JonathanEmont Starting in 2015, Nike poured millions...
Jalisco's governor says Foxconn's $900M Guadalajara plant in Mexico, the largest Nvidia GB200 server assembly site, will be built in a year despite US tariffs
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Foxconn Chair Young Liu says the company plans to build a plant in Mexico's Guadalajara to make Nvidia GB200 Blackwell AI servers, as tech decouples from China
Decision to base plant in Guadalajara shows ‘nearshoring’ of supply chains away from China — Electronics manufacturing group Foxconn …
Walmart de Mexico says it is now offering grocery delivery via WhatsApp, charging ~$2.55 for a delivery within 90 minutes and ~$2.03 for longer waits
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Walmart's Mexico unit has begun offering grocery delivery from its Superama stores via messaging service WhatsApp … Tweets: @dainabethcita Tweets: Daina Beth Solomon / @dainabe...
Amazon and Mexico's central bank are working on CoDi, a mobile payments system that lets consumers make payments using QR codes; testing begins this month
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Profile of TIC, a community-run low-cost cellular service operating in underserved areas across Oaxaca in Mexico, as it gears up to launch in four more states
Talea de Castro is a four-hour drive through winding mountain roads from the capital of Oaxaca, Mexico. Tweets: @psskow , @grahamstarr , and @rsukumar Tweets: Martha Pskowski / @psskow : I wrote for @...
How companies like Quanergy, Palmer Luckey's Anduril, and Alphabet-supported Cogniac are testing virtual patrols along the US-Mexico border using lidar and AI
In a rural Texas county, lidar sensor technology is being tested as a way to spot illegal intruders from Mexico. Tweets: @nytimes and @puiwingtam Tweets: @nytimes : In a rural Texas county, lidar sens...
Sources: Lyft is planning to expand into Canada by year's end, its first market outside the US, and could then move into Australia and New Zealand
As Lyft begins a large-scale advertising campaign to try to continue gaining market share versus Uber in the U.S., its geographic ambition is rising. Tweets: @amir and @amir Tweets: Amir Efrati / @ami...