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Berlin-based food delivery and quick-commerce group behind Talabat, Glovo, Foodpanda and Baemin, operating across Asia, Europe, MENA and Latin America.
Naver let its Naver Plus tie-up with Uber One expire after a year in which Uber's Korean monthly users climbed from 680,000 to 800,000 and slid back. The flat count points to Kakao T's grip on the market, though a split over Baemin gives the partners a second reason to part.
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finmid raised a €17m Series A extension led by Big Pi Ventures to take its platform lending into vehicle finance for Bolt fleet operators. The round tests whether data from the platforms finmid lends through can price multi-year car loans for fleets that conventional lenders struggle to assess.
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Uber agreed to pay $2.3bn in cash for ezCater, a workplace catering marketplace with more than $2.5bn in gross bookings over the past year. That price is less than one year of bookings. It buys the large repeat orders that companies place to feed their staff.
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The retailer says it will eventually reach most of Dunkin's 10,000 US locations, but the disclosed start is 1.5 percent of that, and no fee or unit cost has been published to support its claim of an unmatched offer.
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Sam Altman says AI adoption is slower than he expected. Meta has dropped a plan to cut some teams by up to 60 percent. In both accounts, the scarce resource is people who can map real work onto what agents can actually do.
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