The Financial Times is reporting that food delivery companies Uber and DoorDash met to talk about a potential merger about six months ago, at the request of SoftBank, which is a shareholder in both companies. If the merger had been completed, it would have sped...
A new drone delivery program by Matternet, and operated by UPS, will fly blood samples and other medical necessities to those in need, according to reports. The program will be Matternet’s third, with an earlier UPS partnership having made 1,900 flights at WakeMed, a hospital...
New York startup Bond, formed in 2019, has raised $15 million in a funding round from contributors Lightspeed Venture Partners, MizMaa Ventures and TLV Partners, according to reports. The startup’s mission is to provide eCommerce companies with delivery and distribution center services — it has...
Delivery service Uber Eats no longer has exclusive rights to McDonald’s deliveries in the U.K., according to CNN Business. The company now faces competition from a larger company, called Just Eat, which recently announced that it will partner with McDonald’s for delivery in the country. ...
Russia’s biggest technology firm, Yandex NV, launched an online service that uses bike couriers to bring groceries to Moscow residents in 15 minutes, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday (Jan. 27). The free service, called Lavka, stocks roughly 2,000 items and plans to operate as a digital...
FedEx Ground has expanded home delivery to include Sundays, the company announced Wednesday (Jan. 22). “Every day is now a delivery day at FedEx,” Raj Subramaniam, president and chief operating officer at FedEx, said in a statement. Sunday deliveries will extend to the majority of...
Uber is selling its money-losing food delivery service in India to rival Zomato for a 9.99 percent business stake, according to reports on Tuesday (Jan. 21). The rideshare giant also recently dumped ventures in Russia, China and Southeast Asia to keep its promise to get...
DoorDash has overtaken GrubHub as the No. 1 food delivery service in the U.S., according to a report by CNBC. The data comes from analytics firm Second Measure. DoorDash got 33 percent of all food delivery sales in the U.S. in 2019. GrubHub, which used...
Amazon has lifted its ban on FedEx Ground as a shipping option for third-party merchants, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal. On Tuesday (Jan. 14), Amazon notified merchants that they could resume use of the FedEx Ground network to place orders through...
