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APRIL 24, 2018

New funding also came to Contguard, a supply chain shipment monitoring and business intelligence services company. Contguard’s technology is designed to help manufacturers and suppliers participating in global trade to better track their goods during transit.

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DECEMBER 28, 2020

With Mastercard putting a 49 percent tag on the eCommerce spike for the holidays, this year will be the toughest on record for handling what is a resource- and capital-intensive task. The dreaded returns season has hit retail with a predictable but painful thud. But while the season is here, it doesn’t have to be a time of dread.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Earlier in February, Apple reported a Q4 decline of 20 percent for iPhone shipments in China. The price tag of Apple’s latest iPhones, combined with an economic slowdown and extending smartphone replacement cycles, were named by IDC as the culprits behind the dive in sales for the Cupertino, California handset maker.

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MAY 11, 2016

Customers could instead simply send an entire shipment of goods to Valet, which is then tasked with all the sorting and tagging. Valet was designed to make it easier to sell goods on eBay instead of having to individually list and price each item they wanted to sell.

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OCTOBER 20, 2017

The Economic Daily stated that the reduction in component orders could result in iPhone 8 device shipments of as low as 5 million to 6 million units per month in November and December. As for the iPhone X, concerns abound that the high price tag could keep iPhone owners from upgrading.

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APRIL 15, 2022

New entries will be continually sorted by zip code so that shipments are consolidated at the time items are picked. The shopping cart would be limited to only one item selected by each customer to avoid consumers “gaming” the system. Addresses would be stored along with the item selection, in a cloud-based database.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

The Rose chips in their first iteration are expected to support the wireless item-tracking tags Apple is also expected to roll out at today’s event — but according to most experts, the new chips will be broadly useful in expanding Apple’s augmented reality capabilities in the iPhone in the future. The reason? “A

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MAY 5, 2017

percent decline in smartwatch shipments in Q3 2016 from Q4 2015. The situation improved some in Q4 — Apple released the Apple Watch 2 — and shipment volumes returned to growth territory. Brexit: The price tag on this divorce is getting higher. That would outpace the 18 seen in all of 2016. Recent demands by the EU that the U.K.

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APRIL 25, 2018

With thousands of eCommerce orders placed every day, it can be difficult for human workers to keep track of which products are needed and how to find and pack those items for shipment. That kind of price tag is often outside small businesses’ budgets, and can put warehouses out of commission for longer than those companies can afford.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2019

The firm stopped formally breaking out the iPhone’s sales figures as of Q4 2018 – and according to estimates, shipments declined 11.8 A high price tag – and perhaps a high risk, since high prices are increasingly unattractive to customers, and Samsung is not the only firm rolling out with a dual-screen 5G phone.

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