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(Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc Chief Executive Jeff Bezos has picked British startup Beacon, a digital freight forwarder, for his latest investment. Beacon said on Sunday it raised over $15 million in Series A fundraising, from investors including Bezos and venture capital firm 8VC. The startup, formed by two former Uber Technologies Inc executives two years …

Most of the time when executives in transportation and logistics cite “machine learning,” it’s little more than a buzzword that evokes vague notions of technology continually improving itself. That was decidedly not the case with Ryan Rusnak, chief technology officer at Airspace Technologies, a time-critical freight forwarder based in San Diego. In a presentation at …