8 posts and columns on logistics

How E-Commerce Is Expanding Internationally, One Package at a Time

in Commerce on February 13 at 7:00 am PT

Retailers are realizing that another way to juice revenues is to open up their sites to international markets — if they can manage the logistics.
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Seven Questions for Ric Telford, IBM’s VP of Cloud Services

in Enterprise on January 24, 2011 at 8:45 am PT

When you think about cloud computing, do you think of IBM? If not, you should. Here, Big Blue’s cloud chief talks about how its customers are putting cloud services to work, and hints at acquisitions.

Socializing Vacation Rentals: The AirBnB Guys Speak!

in News on November 22, 2010 at 10:38 am PT

A few weeks ago, BoomTown sat down in a hipster coffee place in a hipster section of San Francisco to talk to the hipster trio of founders of AirBnB. Which, if you think about it, is a very hipster name for what is essentially the ability to rent out your apartment, home or wack-a-doo space (such as a shoe-shaped hotel or Frank Sinatra’s Palm Springs estate). It’s an alternative to other fast-growing similar sites such as VRBO–Vacation Rentals By Owner, only with more style and niche cool. But it did get the traditional venture funding, of course.

The Boku Founders Talk About Mobile Payments, Competitors and More!

in News on July 26, 2010 at 6:30 am PT

While hot start-ups like gaming giant Zynga suck up all the oxygen in the Web 2.0 room, it’s always good to look at those who grease the wheels with the background transactions that make it all possible. Case in point: Mobile payments start-up Boku, a heavily funded (upwards of $38 million) start-up with some high-profile investors, such as Index Ventures, DAG Ventures, Benchmark Capital, Khosla Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz.

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Almost Famous: Mehdi Maghsoodnia of BookRenter

in News on March 5, 2010 at 1:35 am PT

This week: We took a coffee break with Mehdi Maghsoodnia, CEO over at Bookrenter.com. In Web 1.0 style, they do what their name suggests–rent textbooks to students and try to compete with school bookstores, Amazon, and a certain egg-themed competitor. Chegg it out.

Japan Alerts Amazon to Life's Two Certainties

in News on July 6, 2009 at 3:17 pm PT

Amazon’s days of booking sales from its business in Japan back to the United States may be coming to an end. The Tokyo Regional Taxation Bureau has demanded back taxes of $119 million from Amazon’s Japanese affiliates, Amazon Japan and Amazon Japan Logistics.
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Japan Alerts Amazon to Life’s Two Certainties

in News on July 6, 2009 at 3:17 pm PT

Amazon’s days of booking sales from its business in Japan back to the United States may be coming to an end. The Tokyo Regional Taxation Bureau has demanded back taxes of $119 million from Amazon’s Japanese affiliates, Amazon Japan and Amazon Japan Logistics.
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