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Uber Eats to roll out AI assistant to help find deals, more payment options

Uber Eats will get a dedicated section to showcase promotional offers called "Sales Aisle". The new features are set to roll out this year or in 2024

Indian-American Uber Eats delivery person stabbed by career criminal in US

An Indian-American Uber Eats delivery person has been stabbed several times in an attack in the US by a career criminal with more than 100 arrests on his rap sheet, according to a media report. Bharatbhai Patel was stabbed on the Lower East Side, New York on Tuesday by the ex-con described by police as a "super perp", The New York Post reported. The Uber Eats delivery man told The Post on Tuesday that the man stabbed him on the Lower East Side without saying a word and bystanders did nothing. Nobody helped, Patel told The Post. He killed me here, here, here and here, Patel said, referring to the career-criminal suspect and pointing to his wounds. He asked nothing. Not, I need money.' Nothing, the report added. Maybe they need money or something for my bike, he said. But the guy asked me nothing. Patel said he saw around three people near him during the 3 am attack who did nothing to help leaving him to call 911 himself, the report added. He speculated that the people may have

Uber Eats-Amita Gupta case calls for gig worker law reform: Study

The sacking of Indian-origin Amita Gupta by Uber Eats for allegedly arriving 10 minutes late for a delivery has highlighted the need to provide basic employment rights to gig workers, a new study said

Uber sees rides recovering from Covid-19 lows, banks on food-delivery biz

Uber reported it had seen encouraging signs in markets hit by the pandemic and posted a 14% rise in revenue for the first quarter, supported by a jump in food-delivery orders at its Uber Eats business

Zomato bolsters its ship with UberEats as Indian food-tech scouts a shore

In a tough environment, Zomato's expensive purchase shows how its strategy is different from Swiggy's as both compete to attract Softbank amid global investors' proxy food wars in India

Uber sells its India food delivery business to Zomato in all-stock deal

The deal is applicable only in India and Uber Eats will continue to operate in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka

Travis Kalanick cuts all ties with Uber; leaves board, sells all shares

Kalanick, 43, has sold all of his remaining shares in the ride-hailing giant and plans to focus on his new business and philanthropic endeavours

Amid rising competition, Zomato, Swiggy play the differentiation game

Food delivery brands have sought to create distinct brand identities this year, but are they straying too far from the core in the race to be different?

Trouble cooking? GrubHub, Uber Eats get pushback from restaurants on fees

But some restaurants think otherwise and have begun pushing back against what they see as the relationship's unfair distribution of profits

Zomato, Swiggy face the ire of partners. Time to rethink value proposition?

Is it time for the aggregator brands to rethink their promise to their partners-be it restaurants, airlines and hotels and drivers?

Eateries may quit Zomato, Swiggy over steep ad costs, deep discounts

Owners say the cost of deep discounting by Zomato, Swiggy falls on them

#ZomatoUninstalled, #BoycottUberEats trend after 'food is religion' tweet

Even as the incident had social media divided, the Jabalpur police sought an undertaking from the Zomato customer that he would not spread religious hatred

UberEATS expands menu with Mumbai lessons

Here's how the on-demand food delivery app is widening its footprint

UberEATS aims to expand to 200 cities by 2017-end

Focussed on making UberEATS profitable in India: Uber

UberEATS plans quick service restaurant tie-ups for rapid growth

On a rapid expansion mode, UberEATS, the food delivery app by the global ride-sharing giant, is tying up with local and international quick service restaurant (QSR) chains such as McDonald's, to increase the number of orders it receives.The company has a global tie-up with McDonald's as a delivery partner. It plans to bring this association to India and possibly take over the whole food delivery operation of the chain in select cities. The company is at present starting operations in various metropolitan cities and might in the next one year increase its operations into the 29 cities where its cab service aggregating business already exists."We are working with them on how we launch in India; we are optimistic about that. You can take that as a signal that we are interested in food of all price points. We are the only partner working with them in many of the continents," said Jason Droege, Head of UberEverything.The company has expanded into six cities in six months and has around ...

One surprise standout for Uber: Food delivery

Uber came late to food delivery, which is a $100 billion-plus market, or about 1 per cent of the total food market, according to a study by McKinsey

Uber to take on FoodPanda, Swiggy in India with the launch of UberEats

Uber would look to expand the service to six Indian cities

Uber follows Google, forays into Indian food delivery space with UberEATS

Will enable restaurants to register themselves to reach out to more customers, expand business