Technology News – Page 12
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NewsDeliveroo pre-tax losses increase to £184m
Deliveroo’s pre-tax losses increased to £184.7m in 2017 – up from £129.1m in 2016 – as it invested an additional £106m in the business.
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NewsYumpingo signs TGI Fridays as first US customer
Restaurant intelligence platform, Yumpingo, has made its debut in the UK after signing a deal with TGI Fridays.
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NewsDelivery portal offers low commission
Start-up delivery marketplace The FoodHouse has launched with an aim to compete with Deliveroo and Just Eat by taking a smaller commission rate from operators.
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NewsGrubhub acquires campus platform
Grubhub, America’s leading food-ordering and delivery marketplace, has acquired Tapingo, a platform for college campus food ordering, for $150m.
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NewsNutufia raises $1.2m for Euro expansion
Natufia Labs, a start-up which automatically grows edible plants in professional and domestic kitchens, has completed a $1.2m seed round led by Butterfly Ventures, Techstars, and Ginco Investments.
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NewsUber Eats partners with Flyt on PoS
Uber Eats has announced a partnership with Flyt, which will allow restaurants to integrate their food delivery sales into their existing PoS systems.
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NewsUber/Deliveroo: 'It is fairly likely to happen'
Overnight reports that Uber is in talks to acquire Deliveroo made for interesting breakfast reading this morning. Finn Scott-Delany examines the likelihood of the deal coming off, and the potential impact on the UK delivery market.
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NewsDeliveroo expands business service
Deliveroo has extended its corporate service, ‘Deliveroo for Business’, to include hotels, events, and fruit baskets and snacks.
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NewsDeliveroo to experiment with dynamic pricing
Deliveroo is planning to experiment with dynamic pricing, which could involve increases and decreases in the consumer pricepoint, MCA’s Restaurant Conference heard.
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NewsUber ‘in talks to acquire Deliveroo’
Uber is in early talks to acquire Deliveroo, according to reports.
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NewsBreakfast booking platform launches
A restaurant booking platform for breakfast and brunch has been launched.
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NewsDeliveroo extends global footprint
Deliveroo has announced it is launching its service in Taipei in the coming weeks meaning it will now operate in 13 markets, in over 500 towns and cities across the world.
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NewsDeliveroo integrates with Google Maps
Deliveroo has partnered with Google to integrate its restaurant network into Google Maps’ search results across 10 countries in Europe and the Asia Pacific regions.
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NewsFourth acquires people solutions company Octane
Hospitality software provider Fourth has acquired digital people solutions company Octane.
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NewsBigDish eyes 'massive market opportunity' in UK
BigDish, the recently listed yield management platform for restaurants, is looking to capitalise on the “underserved” regional eating out market, before eventually making a move into London.
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NewsKarma to expand UK presence with $12m investment
Karma, a food waste platform for restaurants, will use its $12m Series A investment round to accelerate its expansion in the UK, as well as expand to new European markets.
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NewsItsu trials paperless receipts
Itsu, the Julian Metcalfe-led, food-to-go chain, is launching a trial of paperless receipts across all of its UK stores
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NewsBigDish to start UK rollout in Bath
BigDish, the food tech company that operates a yield management platform for restaurants, is to launch in the UK in September, in Bath.
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NewsGoogle Maps gives restaurant 'matches'
Google Maps on iOS has introduced a new update that shows consumers how well they “match” with a restaurant.