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Stripe most expensive startup in US with $95B valuation

Payments technology provider Stripe has raised $600 million in additional funding for a $95 billion valuation, making the firm the most valuable startup in the U.S., according to CB Insights, which pegs the company’s valuation second only to China’s Bytedance in the world. Bytedance is valued at $140 billion. 

Stripe, which is based in San Francisco, California, and Dublin, Ireland, was valued at $36 billion last April when it also raised $600 million. Total funding across 15 rounds is now $2.2...

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CONA Services partners with Salesforce for real-time tracking

CONA Services, which provides a specific framework of practices and IT services for all Coca-Cola suppliers and bottlers to allow a more efficient workflow, continues to add to its growest list of partnerships.

Earlier this month, CONA announced it was partnering with Salesforce, a leader in the customer relationship management space, to streamline operations and communications with contact centers.

This comes on the heels of previously announced partnerships in the past seven months with Blue...

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Salesforce isn’t slacking off — Put That Coffee Down (with video)

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Dooner and Hill break down how Salesforce purchasing Slack and the Zoom boom will carry sales strategies into 2021

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It’s the deal that has everybody talking, including Dooner and Kevin Hill. Salesforce is buying the work chat app Slack for $27.7 billion. 

News of the acquisition sent Slack stock soaring to peak highs, as the two companies together are expected to take on Microsoft Teams. 

To no one’s surprise, video meeting service Zoom has...

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Dachser desks help US retailers weather holiday shopping season

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Dachser USA has established desks of logistics professionals to assist retailers with weathering changes in how customers purchase holiday items during the coronavirus pandemic and the disrupted supply chain.

The freight forwarder noted that ocean freight capacity is tightening and landside transport gridlock is already on the horizon as the U.S. heads toward the post-Thanksgiving holiday shopping period at the end of November.

“This is a make-or-break time for some of our customers,” said Guido...

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Capacity crunch could result in 700 million late parcel deliveries–Salesforce

A capacity crunch during the peak holiday shipping season will result in delays affecting as many as 700 million global parcel deliveries, according to a forecast from IT giant Salesforce (NYSE:CRM).

In its forecast, which was published late last week, San Francisco-based Salesforce said that global peak demand will exceed available capacity by about 5%. This will result in shipping delays and higher rates as carriers pass on their own cost increases and capitalize on what will be a seller’s...

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EVP of North America Enterprise at Salesforce Larry Shurtz – Fuller Speed Ahead (with video)

FreightWaves founder and CEO Craig Fuller discusses the Salesforce CRM platform and the importance of cloud-based applications with Larry Shurtz, EVP of North America Enterprise at Salesforce.

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Against the odds: Flexport – time to hit one out of the park

You may will have read today about Nvidia’s $40bn takeover of ARM Holdings of the UK from SoftBank, which comes just over four years after the JPY/£ currency-led, opportunistic acquisition was struck by the Japanese firm to acquire the chip designer soon after the Brexit referendum in mid-2016.
The deal creates the “world’s premier computing company for the age of AI”, said Nvidia on Sunday.
And seller SoftBank, the vituperated “Nasdaq Whale” – …

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BiTA Symposium @HOME: Discussions over blockchain in logistics — Part 2

Blockchain in logistics (Graphic: BiTA)

The BiTA Symposium @HOME on June 10 saw speakers present blockchain use cases and possibilities across various verticals within the supply chain industry, elucidating ways to leverage blockchain to bring in more transparency and visibility into logistics operations. In a series of two digests, FreightWaves outlines key aspects of those talks individually. For the first part of the discussion, check here.

Specright empowers Salesforce blockchain customers to create trusted supply chains

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