By Laura Lorek, Publisher, Silicon Hills News / Heather Hoover, executive vice president of operations at uShip, joined the company in 2005, a year after its founding. At the time, uShip, the online shipping marketplace and freight automation software provider, didn’t have a formal office. Nick Parker, chief technology officer at uShip, and the founders worked… Read More
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Austin’s uShip unveils sleek new HQ, gears up for more growth
Lori Hawkins, Staff Writer, Austin American-Statesman / After years of working in two downtown offices, uShip employees are finally under the same roof in a sleek new headquarters on East Riverside Drive. And the timing is right: the move comes as the 220-person company, which runs an online shipping marketplace, is in major growth mode. It took… Read More
How To Quell College-Bound Stress? There’s An App For That, Including Austin-Based One
Tony Cantu, Staff Writer, Patch / Apps help mitigate stress levels for young adults leaving home for the first time to attend college, including locally inspired uShip. / Moving away from home to embark on college can be a stressful, and even traumatic, time for a young adult — particularly for those who have lived their whole… Read More
Investors Push a Paperless Trucking Future
Aaron Crowe, Writer, Trucks.com / Finding a truck to haul something across the country isn’t as easy as hailing a taxi or ride-share service, but it may be getting closer as peer-to-peer trucking apps start to gain traction in the industry. These on-demand freight services are used by less than 5 percent of U.S. trucking lines,… Read More
How Disruptive Will Uber Freight be for Trucking?
By Deborah Lockridge, Editor-in-Chief, TruckingInfo.com/Heavy Duty Trucking / Three other freight-matching companies share their views on the market. / Uber Freight, an app matching owner-operators and small fleets with loads to haul, launched with much fanfare recently. Yet the use of computer technology to match up freight with trucks that can haul it is hardly new. There are in… Read More
Pooches as perks: 5 Austin tech offices where dogs are part of the team
By Kelly Jackson, Staff Writer, Built in Austin / Startups are known for their perks. But even with flexible work hours and wide-open vacation policies, awesome amenities in the office and professional development stipends, one perk rules them all: the dog-friendly office environment. And Austin tech loves its furry office buddies. Cuteness aside, local tech… Read More
New uShip CEO Mike Williams hoping to increase business freight in principal marketplace
By Todd Dills, Senior Editor, Overdrive / In all the hype around the “uberization” (or streamlining/partial automation) of the truckload freight transaction and some companies’ goal of bringing truckers and their shippers closer together, there’s one outfit that’s rather quietly continued to be an option for hotshot and other truckers to connect directly to consumers… Read More
uShip CTO Nick Parker on scaling a tech team, international expansion — and Austin’s brand of quirk
By Kelly Jackson, Staff Writer, Built in Austin / uShip has had a busy 2017. With a move to a new headquarters along East Riverside and a big ‘ole Series D funding to accelerate their enterprise logistics automation solution, the Austin-based tech company has a momentum most startups only ever dream of. Much of that growth can be attributed to… Read More
DB Schenker Takes $25 Million Stake in Online Freight Booking Platform uShip
By BRIAN BASKIN, Editor, Wall Street Journal Logistics Report / DB Schenker is taking a $25 million stake in online freight booking platform uShip Inc., deepening the ties between one of the world’s oldest logistics providers and an upstart looking to bring new technology to the tradition-bound shipping business. DB Schenker, a global logistics company… Read More
Austin-based uShip gets a new leader
By Lori Hawkins, Staff Writer, Austin American Statesman / New CEO of the online shipping company is an enterprise software veteran / As it ramps up for more growth, Austin online shipping company uShip has named a new leader. The company said Wednesday that enterprise software veteran Mike Williams has joined uShip as CEO and… Read More