Media Coverage

The last thing most CEOs want is an operation that unfolds like a reality television drama. But it works fantastically for uShip Inc. CEO Matt Chasen. On Tuesday evenings, his employees stay late at the hip downtown office that used to be a warehouse. They eat pizza, drink beer and watch the latest episode of… Read More

When was the last time you bought something on eBay? Before bidding on the item did you look at the seller’s rating and read a few comments from satisfied or dissatisfied customers? After you purchased and received the item, did you give the seller a review and add him or her to your list of… Read More

In last month’s blog uShip Has Companies Bidding For Your Business, we described the company as the eBay of the shipping and moving marketplace. Just list anything you need shipped on their website and you’ll receive bids from any of their 100,000 feedback-rated movers, carriers, transporters, van lines, freight brokers and other specialty service providers. We… Read More

Shipping services repository uShip recently implemented what it’s calling the Shipping Price Estimator (SPE), a tool for estimating motorcycle transport cost based not only on distance and weight, but also on trucking routes and availability. Unlike a directory or classifieds site, uShip.com uses a reverse-auction style format where transporters bid against each other to win the job,… Read More

Austin entrepreneurs are hoping that the JOBS Act, expected to be signed by President Obama today, will make it easier for startups to raise money and go public. The legislation, which was backed by Silicon Valley and the high-tech industry, opens up more opportunities for crowdfunding, in which the Internet is used to solicit a… Read More

More than 80% of the equipment sold to out-of-state buyers. ORLANDO, FL, Feb. 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ – Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers (NYSE and TSX: RBA), the world’s largest on-site and online industrial auctioneer, conducted the Company’s first six-day auction from February 16 to 21, 2009 at the Company’s newly expanded, 200-acre permanent auction site in Orlando, Florida. The… Read More

Jan. 21, 2012 Put Geek athletes into the Google search engine and what do you come up with? A correction suggestion for Greek Athletes. So the conclusion must be that Geek athletes are an evolution of the ancient Greek athletes that invented the Olympic Games in 776 BC in Olympia in Greece. And as part… Read More

By Scott_Leighton – Wednesday January 11, 2012 – 6:54 pm Austin-startup uShip hit a publicity gold mine when they landed in the middle of A&E’s newest reality show Shipping Wars. The program revolves around truckers bidding on oddly shaped items to transport across country using uShip.com. Between the show revolving around people who use the site for… Read More

Reality show follows six professional haulers as they compete to win the rights to truck large items around the country, and, with luck, turn a profit in the process. For America’s blue-collar workers, it’s a war out there. With U.S. corporations abandoning the country in search of a low-cost labor force in foreign countries, the… Read More

By Gary Dinges AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Updated: 5:05 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2012 Published: 8:10 p.m. Monday, Jan. 9, 2012   Austin and Austin-based company uShip.com are front and center in a new reality TV series that debuts tonight.   The A&E Network’s “Shipping Wars” focuses on six shippers whose livelihoods depend on transporting bulky, out-of-the-ordinary items — including a 13-foot-tall metal horse made of car bumpers… Read More