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Motive, the AI Platform for Physical Operations, today announced it has been named to G2’s 2025 Best Software Awards, placing #1 on the Best Supply Chain and Logistics Products list, and landing at #4 for Best Software Products. As the world’s largest and most trusted software marketplace, G2 reaches 100 million buyers annually. Its annual Best Software Awards rank the world’s best software companies and products based on authentic, timely reviews from real users.
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Overall, Motive received four additional accolades within G2’s Best Software Awards:
Trusted by over 120,000 customers across industries such as transportation and logistics, construction, field services, energy, utilities, telecommunications, and more, Motive’s AI-powered platform is transforming physical operations, making businesses safer, more productive, and more profitable.
“The recognition Motive has received from customers puts us alongside some of the most trusted names in software, and it is a testament to the real-world impact we deliver to businesses managing physical operations,” said Ryan Plutnicki, Chief Customer Officer at Motive. “We are committed to empowering those who drive the physical economy forward with AI-powered solutions that deliver measurable results. Today, that commitment is being validated by those who matter most—our customers.”
Why Motive Stands Apart
G2’s Best Software Awards highlights 1% of companies that excel in customer satisfaction, product innovation, and market leadership. Motive has consistently outpaced competitors by delivering solutions that drive real business results. According to our customer reviews on G2, here are the top reasons businesses switch to Motive:
“The stakes for choosing the right business software are higher than ever,” said Godard Abel, co-founder & CEO at G2. “With over 180,000 software products and services listings and 2.9 million verified user reviews in the G2 marketplace, we’re proud to help companies navigate these critical choices with insights rooted in authentic customer feedback. The 2025 Best Software Award winners represent the very best in the industry, standing out for their exceptional performance and customer satisfaction. Congratulations to this year’s honorees!”
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About Motive
Motive empowers those who run physical operations with tools to enhance safety, productivity, and profitability. The platform unifies safety, operations, and finance functions, enabling management of workers, vehicles, equipment, and fleet-related spend in a single system. Serving over 120,000 customers, from small businesses to Fortune 500 enterprises, Motive is transforming industries such as transportation, construction, energy, and retail.
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Motive Earns #1 Spot on G2’s 2025 Best Software Awards for Best Supply Chain and Logistics Software, #4 for Best Software Products
The United Auto Workers leader is praising President Donald Trump’s 25% tariffs on vehicles and parts. Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney says it’s a ‘direct attack’ on his nation, but he’ll need details before taking retaliatory measures. Mexico is already seeking “preferential treatment” to tax finished cars and not each component while parts cross borders.
There are no signs that the Signal chat controversy will fade soon for Trump, who has said he stands by his national security team and has assailed the credibility of the reporter who broke the story.
The Associated Press returned to a Washington courtroom to ask a judge to restore its full access to presidential events.
And the president plans to sign more executive orders in Thursday’s latest news about politics and the Trump administration.
Here's the Latest:
The Associated Press and the Trump administration are in court for arguments over the White House’s banning of the news agency from its press pool earlier this year. The AP sued three administration officials including the president’s press secretary after its reporters were barred.
The administration says it’s because AP is ignoring an executive order to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. The AP has said it’s sticking with Gulf of Mexico while also acknowledging Trump’s name change in its news stories, because it has a global audience and the body of water is not solely under the purview of the United States.
The AP’s stylebook is influential and is followed by many news organizations and others.
The court proceeding started at 9:40 a.m. No communications devices are allowed into federal court.
▶ Read more about the AP and the Trump administration in court
Speaking after a summit about Ukraine in Paris, Emmanuel Macron said that while Trump is asking Europeans to make greater military efforts to ensure their own security, “this is not the time to be imposing tariffs on us.”
“It’s not coherent,” Macron said. “Imposing tariffs means breaking value chains, creating inflation in the short term and destroying jobs. It’s not good for the American economy, nor for the European, Canadian or Mexican economies.”
Macron insisted he would find it quite paradoxical if the U.S. imposes more taxes on their main allies. Europeans would retaliate to protect themselves, with the goal of trying “to dismantle all these tariffs.”
The National Security Leaders for America says the full transcript of Signal chat conversations Trump officials had shows how dangerous it was for them to use the communications app to discuss an upcoming military operation.
“It is even more evident that this remarkable disregard for operational security presented significant risks to the mission and the lives of the men and women serving in the region,” the group’s statement says.
The group released an assessment of how the mission could have been compromised, including allowing an enemy to target the USS Harry S. Truman during the aircraft launch as well as allowing air defenses to prepare for the incoming flights.
The Trump administration says it believes California schools are violating federal student privacy laws by following a new state law that forbids districts from requiring staff to notify parents about changes to their child’s gender identity.
The U.S. Education Department on Thursday said it’s opening an investigation into California’s state education office for alleged violations of the Family Educational Rights Privacy Act. It said FERPA supersedes state law and gives parents the right to access their children’s education information. Violating FERPA can lead to a termination of federal money, the department warned
“Teachers and school counselors should not be in the business of advising minors entrusted to their care on consequential decisions about their sexual identity and mental health,” Education Secretary Linda McMahon said.
The top Republican and Democrat, in a rare show of bipartisan cooperation, are sending a letter to the inspector general at the Department of Defense to formally request an investigation into how top Trump national security officials used Signal to discuss military strikes.
Sen. Roger Wicker, the Republican chair of the committee, along with Sen. Jack Reed, the top Democrat, signed the letter that asks for an inquiry into the potential “use of unclassified networks to discuss sensitive and classified information, as well as the the sharing of such information with those who do not have proper clearance and need to know.”
Senators Wicker and Reed want Steven Stebbins, the acting inspector general at the Department of Defense, to:
— account for what was communicated and any actions to follow up on the communication
— assess the Pentagon’s policies for sharing sensitive and classified information, as well as its policies for classification and declassification
— identify any discrepancies in the classification policies between the White House, Pentagon, intelligence community and other agencies
— evaluate whether anyone transferred classified information on Signal
— make recommendations to address any problems identified.
Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum said Thursday that Mexico does not want to be drawn into taking positions with each new U.S. tariff. She cited Trump’s taxes on aluminum and steel as well as his new ones on imported automobiles and auto parts.
“There shouldn’t be any tariffs, that is the essence of the commercial treaty” the first Trump administration signed with Mexico and Canada, she said.
Updating the Mexican people on his team’s efforts in Washington, Economy Secretary Marcelo Ebrard said they had more than half a dozen meetings with top Trump officials, but once Trump was moving ahead, they shifted gears to seek preferential treatment.
Now he said both sides are discussing how that could work: The basic idea is that automobiles exported from Mexico would not face the full 25% tariff, but rather would be taxed based on where their components came from.
The Trump administration is eagerly noting that United Auto Workers union president Shawn Fain, who endorsed the 2024 Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris, is welcoming Trump’s 25% auto tariff.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Thursday that Fain “wasn’t the greatest fan” of Trump, but still has “applauded the president for this move.”
Fain on Wednesday said of Trump’s tariffs announcement, “Ending the race to the bottom in the auto industry starts with fixing our broken trade deals, and the Trump administration has made history with today’s actions.”
When asked at an unrelated news conference what the Justice Department plans to do about top national security officials using a messaging app to discuss details of a planned military attack, Pam Bondi declined to comment and deflected.
She also insisted that none of the information shared on Signal was classified, even though officials have provided no evidence that that’s the case.
Espionage Act statutes require the safe handling of closely held national defense information even if it’s not marked classified.
Bondi, who has pledged not to play politics with the department, quickly pivoted to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former President Joe Biden, who were investigated for allegations that they mishandled classified information but were not charged. Both Democrats were subject to extensive criminal investigations and the FBI and Justice Department have long track records of such inquiries.
Thursday’s announcement by the agency responsible for monitoring infectious diseases, inspecting foods and hospitals and overseeing health insurance programs for nearly half the country says its workforce will shrink from 82,000 to 62,000 positions.
The cuts include layoffs, early retirements and voluntary separations, encouraged through buyout offers and will mostly affect the public health agencies:
The global vaccines group that helps immunize more than half the world’s children against infectious diseases could lose more than $1 billion in pledged U.S. funding, according to a USAID spreadsheet that leaked this week.
But the Gavi alliance ’s chief executive said Thursday that the U.S government hasn’t confirmed the proposed cuts.
Dr. Sania Nishtar said Gavi is “engaging with the White House and Congress,” to secure the funding.
The 281-page spreadsheet detailing plans to terminate 5,341 awards to dozens of groups was first reported on by The New York Times.
Gavi says it has averted nearly 19 million deaths by helping to vaccinate more than 1 billion children in 78 poorer countries against diseases including measles, Ebola and malaria.
European automakers, already struggling with tepid economic growth at home and rising competition from China, on Thursday decried the U.S. import tax on cars as a heavy burden that will punish consumers and companies alike on both sides of the Atlantic.
The new 25% import tax announced by Trump “will hurt global automakers and US manufacturing at the same time,” the European Automobile Manufacturers’ association said in a statement.
The head of Germany’s auto industry association, VDA, said the tariffs would weigh on car makers and every company in the deeply interwoven global supply chain “with negative consequences above all for consumers, including in North America.”
“The consequences will cost growth and prosperity on all sides,” Hildegard Müller said in a statement.
The stakes are enormous for BMW, Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz, Volvo, Stellantis and their vast network of suppliers, as well as the entire European economy.
▶ Read more about the impacts of tariffs on Europe
There are no signs that the Signal chat controversy will fade soon for Trump, who has said he stands by his national security team and has assailed the credibility of the reporter who broke the story.
Pete Hegseth told reporters in Hawaii he had not texted “war plans” or “attack plans” in the Signal group, pointing out he had called his post a “team update.”
“My job, as it said atop of that (post), everybody’s seen it now - ‘TEAM UPDATE’ - is to provide updates in real time, general updates in real time, keep people informed,” he said before boarding a plane for Guam without taking follow-up questions. “That’s what I did. That’s my job.”
The president showed his fury on social media early Thursday, declaring it “disgraceful” that U.S. District Judge James Boasberg has been assigned another hot button case involving the Trump administration.
Cases are randomly assigned to the 20 judges in the Washington court.
Boasberg was assigned on Wednesday to preside over a lawsuit filed by the group American Oversight against several Trump administration officials and the National Archives and Records Administration. It alleges they violated federal recordkeeping laws when they used a Signal chat group to discuss military strikes against Houthi militants in Yemen.
Boasberg’s assignment to the Signal lawsuit came just two days after the Trump administration, in the Venezuela deportation case, invoked the “state secrets” privilege to refuse to share details with the judge about the timing of deportation flights to El Salvador.
“There is no way for a Republican, especially a TRUMP REPUBLICAN, to win before him,” Trump said. He added that Boasberg is “Highly Conflicted.” Trump and his allies have called for impeaching Boasberg.
The U.S. cities most vulnerable to a trade war with Canada turn out to largely be in the states that helped return Donald Trump to the White House — a sign of the possible political risk he’s taking with his tariff plans.
A new analysis released Thursday by the Canadian Chamber of Commerce detailed the areas most dependent on exports to Canada, with San Antonio and Detroit topping the list of 41 U.S. metro areas. The findings show that the United States’ 25% tariffs on Canada and Canada’s retaliations could inflict meaningful damage in key states for U.S. politics.
The analysis was conducted before Trump announced Wednesday that he was placing additional 25% tariffs on imported autos and parts starting on April 3.
▶ Read more about how tariffs will impact cities in the U.S.
Long-threatened tariffs from Trump have plunged the country into a global trade war — all while on-again, off-again new levies continue to escalate uncertainty.
Trump is no stranger to tariffs. He launched a trade war during his first term, taking particular aim at China by putting taxes on most of its goods. Beijing responded with its own retaliatory tariffs on U.S. products ranging from fruit to automotive imports. Trump also used the threat of more tariffs to force Canada and Mexico to renegotiate a North American trade pact, called the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, in 2020.
Fast-forward to today and economists stress there could be greater consequences on businesses and economies worldwide under Trump’s more sweeping tariffs this time around — and that higher prices will likely leave consumers footing the bill. There’s also been a sense of whiplash from Trump’s back-and-forth tariff threats and responding retaliation, including some recently-postponed taxes on goods from America’s largest trading partners.
▶ Read more about the timeline of how we got here
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says he needs to see the details of Trump’s executive order before taking retaliatory measures. He called it unjustified and said he will leave the election campaign to go to Ottawa on Thursday to chair his special Cabinet committee on U.S. relations.
Carney earlier announced a CA$2 billion ($1.4 billion) “strategic response fund” that will protect Canadian auto jobs affected by Trump’s tariffs.
Autos are Canada’s second largest export, and Carney noted it employs 125,000 Canadians directly and almost another 500,000 in related industries. Carney says it is appropriate that he and Trump speak on the phone. The two have not spoken since Carney was sworn in March 14.
▶ Read more about Carney’s response to Trump’s tariffs
The Associated Press is returning to a Washington courtroom Thursday to ask a judge to restore its full access to presidential events. That’s weeks after the White House retaliated against the news outlet last month for not following President Trump’s executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico.
In a previous hearing last month, U.S. District Court Judge Trevor N. McFadden refused the AP’s request for an injunction to stop the White House from barring reporters and photographers from events in the Oval Office and Air Force One. He urged the Trump administration to reconsider its ban before Thursday’s hearing. It hasn’t.
The AP has said it needs to take a stand against Trump’s team for punishing a news organization for using speech that it doesn’t like. The news outlet said it would still refer to the Gulf of Mexico in its style guidance to clients around the world, while also noting that Trump has renamed it the Gulf of America. The White House said it has the right to decide who gets to question the president.
“For anyone who thinks the Associated Press’s lawsuit against President Trump’s White House is about the name of a body of water, think bigger,” Julie Pace, the AP’s executive editor, wrote in an op-ed piece for the Wall Street Journal. “It’s really about whether the government can control what you say.”
The president has dismissed the AP as a group of “radical left lunatics” and said that “we’re going to keep them out until such time as they agree that it’s the Gulf of America.”
As prisoners stand looking out from a cell, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks during a tour of the Terrorist Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador, Wednesday, March 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
FILE - F/A-18F Super Hornet fighter jet takes off from the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Dwight D. Eisenhower, also known as the 'IKE', in the south Red Sea, Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue, File)
A digital bill board flashes a tariffs message in Kennedy Township, Pa., Tuesday, March 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
New Toyota vehicles are stored at the Toyota Logistics Service Inc., their most significant vehicle imports processing facility in North America, at the Port of Long Beach in Long Beach, Calif., Wednesday, March 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt walks up to the podium to speak with reporters in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, March 26, 2025.(AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
