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Shopify, UPS Cut Deal to Lower Rates for Online Retailers

Christmas is coming early for smaller retailers looking to boost online sales.

Mercedes Steps Up Electric-Van Push to Counter Deutsche Post

Mercedes-Benz is ramping up its offering of electric delivery vans after Deutsche Post AG switched from customer to competitor with the successful rollout of a no-frills battery-powered vehicle.

A Fraud or World Changer? A Lot of Companies Are Talking About Cryptocurrency

J.P. Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon thinks bitcoin is a "fraud." Investor Mark Cuban called it "a bubble." Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein is still undecided. But whether or not executives believe in the potential of bitcoin, ethereum or blockchain technology, they and their companies can’t avoid talking about cryptocurrencies.

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Robot Makers Fill Their War Chests in Fight Against Amazon

A few years ago, Amazon.com Inc. triggered a robot arms race when it purchased a company called Kiva Systems, maker of automated warehouse robots. Now its would-be rivals are landing bigger and bigger cash injections to try to compete with the e-commerce giant.

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The New American Apparel: Claims of 'Ethically Made' Abroad Clash With Reality

Under a page headlined "Sweatshop Free Stories" on American Apparel's website is a video profile of a young Honduran man, Heber Lopez, a garment worker at one of the factories in San Antonio, Honduras responsible for producing the retailer's clothing.

These Robots Don’t Want Your Job. They Want Your Love.

I hugged a bot and I liked it.

Coming Up: A Pill With a Digital Sensor to Track If You Took Your Medicine

U.S. regulators have approved the first drug with a sensor that can track whether patients have taken their medicine.

Q&A: How Retailers Are Facing an Evolving Secondary Sales Market

An awful lot of ink is spilled in the business press about the pressure brick-and-mortar retailers feel from Amazon and e-commerce in general, but not nearly as much attention is paid to the challenge they feel from the secondary market.

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Tesla's Electric Semi Truck Gets Orders From Wal-Mart and J.B. Hunt

Some of the country's biggest trucking fleets are among Tesla Inc.'s first customers for its all-electric big rig.

Retailers Experiment With a New Philosophy: Smaller Is Better

Brick-and-mortar retail chains, known for sprawling stores that stock a bit of everything, are trying to lift sagging sales using a different strategy: cozier spaces that sell very little of anything.

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Looking Back: The World's First Global Supply Chain

The city of Ternate in eastern Indonesia seems forgotten by time.

Pharma Warns of Drug Supply Disruptions Without a Brexit Deal

Drugmakers in the EU are warning of drug supply chaos if the U.K. and European Commission can't strike a specific deal covering the approval of medicines before their governmental divorce.

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