Comment / M&A radar: Here's why savvy UPS snapped up Roadie

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24/09/2021

UPS has bought a company called Roadie, it announced earlier this month, so I thought I’d check them out.

This was easier said than done.

Googling ‘Roadie’ on a Chrome browser returned Roadie’s official website as the top result, so I clicked… ACCESS DENIED (screen grab below).

Roadie’s website tells me it is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks and as such I may not visit.

For the first time ever, I open up the Bing browser on my laptop to see if ...

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