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According to Shopify, they now have a partnership with Uber to deliver their products to local customers faster than ever. The goal is to do what once seemed impossible—make affordable, reliable same-day delivery a reality for even the smallest business. With Shopify and UberRUSH, your customers can get their online orders in hours not days, making last minute online shopping convenient and impulse buying irresistible. After today, you’ll find UberRUSH couriers hurrying through the streets of New York, San Francisco, and Chicago delivering packages from Shopify stores. If you operate an online store in one of those cities, you can soon offer your customers same-day delivery. We’re actively working with the Uber team to expand this service into more locations. Shipping with UberRUSH is like having your own on-demand courier. When a customer requests same-day delivery, simply pack the order, and then schedule an UberRUSH pickup from the order’s fulfillment screen.

Alphabet Inc, the holding company for Google plans on being able to deliver packages to customers by drones in 2017. According to an article written by Reuters: "David Vos, the leader for Alphabet's Project Wing, said his company is in talks with the Federal Aviation Administration and other stakeholders about setting up an air traffic control system for drones that would use cellular and Internet technology to coordinate unmanned aerial vehicle flights at altitudes under 500 feet (152 meters)." It is no surprise that Alphabet wants to get in the drone industry, as other companies like Amazon are also vying to get a spot in this potentially lucrative industry. However one of the boundaries to them currently is the Federal Aviation Administration, who needs to publish final rules for commercial drone operations. Luckily those rules are expected to be set in stone early next year.

Just as the Louisville Metro, the Weather Channel and countless other high profile, high trafficked websites have done, Time Warner is moving to the Drupal Content Management System, according to DigiDay.

TIme Inc.'s new CTO Colin Bodell, after a long stint with Amazon, has recognized, as rival Hearst has, that being on the same platform will help brands increase their traffic faster by easily sharing articles and code and create new apps at a fraction of the old cost.

Bravo! Louisville Web Group was the first web company in Kentuckiana to recognize the power and flexibility of Drupal CMS and has dedicated itself solely to Drupal development for client websites since 2011.

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Louisville Web Group has launched the new online presence for Florida-based Aquathin Corp., developers and marketers of the finest water filtration, conditioning and treatment systems for residential, commercial and laboratory applications worldwide at http://aquathin.com.