Uber Eats

Uber Technologies announced Tuesday that it will buy the Taiwan unit of Delivery Hero’s Foodpanda for $950 million in cash. The deal is part of Uber Eats’ strategy to expand…

Uber to acquire Foodpanda’s Taiwan unit from Delivery Hero for $950M in cash 

Serve Robotics, the Uber and Nvidia-backed sidewalk robot delivery company, debuted publicly on the stock exchange Thursday, making it the latest startup to choose going public via a reverse merger…

Uber, Nvidia-backed Serve Robotics hits public markets with $40M splash

Uber Eats is launching a TikTok-like short-form video feed to boost discovery and help restaurants showcase their dishes. Uber Eats’ senior director of Product, Awaneesh Verma, told TechCrunch exclusively in…

Uber Eats launches a TikTok-like video feed to boost discovery

Uber Eats is adding a live location-sharing capability to help couriers find customers in difficult-to-find locations, including public places such as campus courtyards, parks and playgrounds. Starting today, the new…

Uber Eats’ new live location-sharing feature helps couriers deliver food to users in hard-to-find locations

Uber, along with partners Mitsubishi Electric and autonomous robotics startup Cartken, are launching a service in Japan that will use self-driving sidewalk robots to deliver food to customers. The companies…

Uber Eats is launching a delivery service with Cartken’s sidewalk robots in Japan

Uber is shutting down alcohol delivery service Drizly three years after the cab-hailing company acquired it for $1.1 billion. Drizly ran independently all this time, and Uber eventually decided to…

Uber is closing alcohol delivery service Drizly three years after acquistion

The former startup darling’s results can be viewed as an indication that its business model has matured and is now in a stable, profitable and cash-generating position.

Uber’s Q3 numbers include impressive profitability gains, slower-than-expected growth

You no longer have to fight with loved ones about what to eat for dinner tonight. Uber Eats announced a multi-store ordering feature that enables diners to purchase items from…

Uber Eats now lets you order from two nearby stores at the same time

Uber Eats and quick commerce player Getir have inked a grocery delivery partnership, starting in the U.K. The tie-up, which expands the range of groceries on tap for Uber Eats’…

Uber Eats and Getir ink tie-up in Europe for speedy grocery deliveries

Uber’s AI chatbot will help users find restaurant deals and reorder favorites on the app. Available in the U.S., U.K., Australia and Canada.

Uber Eats to launch Google-powered chatbot in late 2023

Uber Eats is developing an AI-powered chatbot that will offer recommendations to users and offer them a quicker way to place orders, according to a new report from Bloomberg. The…

Uber Eats is reportedly developing an AI chatbot that will offer recommendations, speed up ordering

Domino’s, the world’s largest pizza company in terms of sales and stores, has entered an agreement with Uber to list its menu on Uber Eats and Postmates. The deal indicates…

Domino’s strikes deal to list its menu on Uber Eats and Postmates in the US

Family is at the center of Uber’s latest product offensive. Uber revealed Wednesday at its annual “Go-Get” event, a slew of new products and features aimed at attracting a new…

Uber puts family (even teens) at the center of its new products and features

Wondering where your Uber Eats order is? Alexa will soon be able to tell you. Amazon today announced a new partnership with Uber that will give Echo device owners the…

Alexa’s new feature lets your Echo speaker announce your Uber Eats order updates
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The on-demand delivery trilemma

The on-demand delivery trilemma refers to the challenge of balancing three of the most important factors in the on-demand delivery of convenience foods: speed, profitability and affordability.

The on-demand delivery trilemma

Uber Eats is introducing a new feature that shows users how much of their personal information is shared with their delivery person when they place an order on the app.…

Uber Eats now shows you how much of your information is shared with delivery people

Uber has agreed to a $10 million settlement with the City of Chicago for listing local restaurants in the Uber Eats and Postmates food delivery apps without the restaurants’ consent, as…

Uber Eats to pay millions for listing Chicago restaurants without consent

Video of a sidewalk delivery robot crossing yellow caution tape and rolling through a crime scene in Los Angeles went viral this week, amassing more than 650,000 views on Twitter…

This robot crossed a line it shouldn’t have because humans told it to

Starbucks is adding a new delivery partner, as the coffee giant has entered into a partnership with DoorDash that will expand nationally in 2023, the companies confirmed to TechCrunch on…

Starbucks and DoorDash launch delivery partnership, will expand offering nationwide in 2023

Uber will use Nuro autonomous delivery vehicles to shuttle meals and other goods to its Eats customers as part of a 10-year commercial deal between the two companies. The partnership,…

Uber turns to autonomous vehicle startup Nuro for Eats deliveries

The question of whether Uber would be able to self-support was at least partially answered Tuesday with the company’s second quarter earnings report. In its Q2 digest, the American ride-hailing…

Uber turns the corner, generates massive pile of free cash flow in Q2

Uber plans to sell its 7.8% holding in Indian food delivery firm Zomato as early as Wednesday, a source familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. The ride-hailing giant, which acquired…

Uber lost $707 million on Zomato investment in first half of this year, plans to sell entire stake

Amazon tried but then ultimately stepped away from building its own cost-intensive Grubhub and DoorDash competitor in the U.S. back in 2019. Now three years on, it’s taking a different…

Amazon takes a Prime step back into restaurant delivery in the US with big Grubhub investment and partnership

Despite being one of the countries in Europe with the most hours of sunshine, Spain has extremely low levels of household solar installations. Madrid-based Samara, a startup founded in May…

Samara is building tech to switch Spain’s households onto solar energy

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Uber Eats, the food delivery arm of Uber, is launching nationwide shipping, a new product that will allow customers across the U.S., excluding Alaska and Hawaii, to get specialty food…

Uber Eats will now deliver your waffles across the country

Yummy is working with over 8,000 merchants, processing 800,000 monthly transactions across its markets and growing over 40% quarter over quarter.

Yummy’s super-sized round helps grow its delivery, ride-sharing super app in LatAm

  Uber today announced a significant milestone — it has completed 1 billion rides across all its markets in Africa. This feat translates to over 10 billion kilometres in terms…

Uber hits 1 billion rides in Africa

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The lowdown on the slowdown

Kicking things off this week with some data culled by the folks over at Crunchbase that’s very much in line with what we’ve been saying on Actuator all along. The past couple of years have been genuinely transformational for robotics. Since the beginning of the pandemic, the conversations I’ve been…

The lowdown on the slowdown

Uber is partnering with Grocery Outlet to pilot on-demand and scheduled grocery delivery, the company announced on Thursday. Starting today, users can shop at 72 Grocery Outlet stores in California,…

Uber, Grocery Outlet partner to pilot on-demand and scheduled grocery delivery