Good Tuesday morning, everyone! (Web visitors, you can click here for an easier-to-read version of today’s email newsletter.) —– Top News in the A.M. Shares of Apple reached a major milestone this morning, crossing the $700 billion market capitalization threshold just after trading began on Wall Street. There are now more than 3 billion people online, […]
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Same-Day Delivery Takes One On the Chin
Over the weekend, eBay took down a standalone app for its $5 same-day delivery service “eBay Now.” The company, which continues to make the service available online, is “rethinking how it wants to handle the high costs associated with running same-day delivery services,” reported TechCrunch. It would be a mistake to declare same-day delivery economically […]
A Startup Tackles Express B2B Delivery (and Tens of Rivals)
Sean Spector is a brave soul. Spector is the CEO and cofounder of year-old, Austin-based Dropoff, a same-day delivery service that’s targeting small and mid-size businesses that don’t necessarily want their sensitive documents being delivered by a harried bike messenger who has other places to be. Customers pay a bit more than they might to […]