Alibaba plans its biggest restructuring ever, reorganizing its businesses into six independent entities and moving all operational decisions to each unit's CEO
announced a day after co-founder Jack Ma returned to mainland China after almost a year overseas. @hwclarence @raffaelehuang https://www.wsj.com/... Paul Page / @paulpage : Alibaba plans a major struc...
A look at the safety and economics of autonomous trucks as Aurora and TuSimple say they plan to have commercial-trucking services in the US by the end of 2023
Autonomous trucks that mostly stick to highways could make sense, both technologically and economically, in ways robotaxis have not. Tweets: @herbgreenberg , @hyperplanes , @mims , @alexoimas , @mims ...
A look at Andy Jassy's first year as Amazon CEO, as he seeks to reverse some of Jeff Bezos' aggressive pandemic investments, close physical stores, and more
Amid one of the worst stretches for financial performance in Amazon's history, the new CEO is working to cut back the excesses … Tweets: @shiraovide , @paulpage , @danamattioli , @conorsen , @danamatt...
Some residents worry the warehouse boom in PA's Lehigh Valley, driven by its proximity to NY and e-commerce, is putting long-term economic well-being at risk
Michael Corkery / New York Times : Tweets: @willwbloom , @nytimesbusiness , @hal_coi , @nytimes , and @paulpage Tweets: Baby Cheetah / @willwbloom : I hate the people treating my home as a “great rea...
Just Eat Takeaway's Grubhub acquisition rests on the belief that restaurants should handle delivery, offering an order platform while avoiding associated costs
Bid by Dutch giant Just Eat Takeaway would join two companies that have avoided building their own delivery fleets Tweets: @carnage4life and @paulpage Tweets: Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : Grubhub's...
Current and recently fired Amazon warehouse workers say they faced retaliation as they advocated for better working conditions; Amazon denies charges
Sebastian Herrera / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @dseetharaman and @paulpage Tweets: Deepa Seetharaman / @dseetharaman : The tech giant denies allegations by terminated workers that it has targeted ...
As unionized dockworkers protest automation in LA ports, truckers welcome the port robots which reduce unpaid time they spend waiting for the cargo to load
Day after day, Walter Diaz, an immigrant truck driver from El Salvador, steers his 18-wheeler toward the giant ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. Tweets: @margotroosevelt , @latimes , @paulpage , @m...
A look at Emirati billionaire Mohamed Alabbar's $1B ecommerce venture Noon, a competitor to Amazon's Souq in the Middle East, founded in 2016
Real-estate tycoon Mohamed Alabbar launched Noon to compete with the U.S. tech giant for a foothold in the region's online shopping boom Tweets: @pwonacott and @paulpage Tweets: Peter Wonacott / @pwon...