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Then, he acquired and managed Manning’s Truck Brokerage, a 50-year-old, private equity-backed logistics company, which he successfully digitalized and sold in 2020 to FitzMark. ? After, he was the CEO of Freight Mango, a Global Digital Freight Marketplace focused on streamlining and automating global trade. ?
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Larry De Shon, president and chief executive officer of Avis Budget Group, which owns Avis Car Rental, Budget Car Rental and car-sharing firm Zipcar, among others, has a fresh perspective on the car rental industry. ( Avis Budget Group is a finalist in the IoT World Awards for Best Enterprise IoT Deployment.)
would likely not commit on deadlines, can you outline top priorities for 2020 and share an update on the development of Engine 2.0, The sidechain we still are targeting mainnet launch for Q1 2020. Can you briefly explain the benefits of integrating oracles like Chainlink, for example, into the Shipchain network? . ShipChain Inc.,
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E-learning widens access to education to students in lower-income groups who can’t afford full-time university fees. billion USD between 2020 and 2024. Walmart, UPS, and Boeing , for example, are incorporating VR in their employee education programmes, seeing the technology as superior for training and imparting skills to workers.
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Its Active WMS Solution is marketed as “the last WMS you’ll ever buy” ( see interview in Logistics Business, September 2020) and with nearly $600M in R&D spend over the past decade, it has the heft to back up the claims. But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t take measures to reduce our dependency on, say, one country, for example.
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