EU fines Delivery Hero and Glovo €329mn for takeaway ‘cartel’.
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Chinese food delivery giant Meituan net profit up 46.2% in first quarter.
The company controls nearly 70% of China’s delivery market, but rising competition could drive up costs and squeeze margins, analysts say (The Business Times).
Toast Commits $5 Million to Combat Food Insecurity and End Childhood Hunger.
Company launches partnership with No Kid Hungry along with a campaign to engage Toast’s employees, products, and restaurant community in a global initiative to fight hunger (Business Wire).
DoorDash, Grubhub, Uber Eats settle with New York City over fee caps.
DoorDash, Grubhub and Uber Eats have settled a lawsuit against New York City over a law capping how much they can charge restaurants for delivering meals (CNBC).
EU fines Delivery Hero and Glovo €329mn for takeaway ‘cartel’.
European Commission hands down first punishment for a “no-poach” deal and says food delivery groups shared trade secrets (Financial Times).
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Q-CommerceTech giants in the Gulf are building super-apps to dominate digital life.
From Dubai to Riyadh, apps are consolidating ride-hailing, payments, and delivery into single platforms (rest of world).
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Deliveroo Launches Drone Food Delivery Service in Dublin
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Glovo and finmid Partner to Offer Instant Lending Products to 70,000 Local Businesses.
Glovo, one of the leading technology platforms across Europe, Central Asia, and Africa, has partnered with finmid, the all-in-one infrastructure provider for financing, to bring instant, personalized capital offers to Small and Medium-sized Businesses (SMEs) using the Glovo platform (FFNews).
iFood increases offensive against competition and will offer discounts on travel.
Partnership with Decolar reinforces iFood’s strategy of positioning itself as a complete and multi-category ecosystem, in addition to delivery (Startups.com).
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Delivery Tech
World + Rappi: on-demand proof of human verification.
As AI becomes more sophisticated, proving you’re a real human online has never been more important. World ID offers the most secure and private way to do this — but we know getting to an Orb isn’t always convenient (World.org).
Deliveroo Launches Drone Food Delivery Service in Dublin
Deliveroo has launched an autonomous drone food delivery service in Dublin in partnership with Irish firm Manna Drones Inc. As part of the partnership, Deliveroo customers in some areas of the suburbs of west Dublin will have the option to have their order delivered by drone, the company said Thursday. It will conduct a test phase in the coming weeks to assess how the drones can help serve suburban locations (Bloomberg).
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Talabat profit soars nearly 4x as groceries drive growth
The strong Q1 performance underscores rising consumer demand for digital convenience and the platform’s ability to diversify beyond restaurant orders
Uber to buy controlling stake in Turkey’s Trendyol GO food delivery business for $700 million.
Uber said it would buy a majority 85% stake in Turkish food and grocery delivery platform Trendyol Go for $700 million, as the ride-hailing giant looks to tap new growth markets amid signs of saturation in its mainstay North American business.
Delivery drivers and couriers for Uber, Didi, and Rappi will have IMSS benefits starting in June.
Attention app delivery drivers and app operators! Starting in June 2025, platform workers like Uber, Didi, Rappi, and others will finally have access to the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) , thanks to the implementation of a reform that seeks to end job insecurity in the digital world.
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