This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. Here is a collection of past columns. I don’t have anything against ads. They make it more affordable for us to watch “Monday Night Football” and read The New York Times. I love a well-made weepy TV commercial. What I don’t […]
Category: Delivery Services
These Apps Deliver Food and Misery
This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. Here is a collection of past columns. Many of the delivery businesses that have sprung up in the last few years make no financial sense and may be turning us into monsters. I’m talking about app-based companies including Uber, DoorDash, Gopuff […]
Uber shows signs of pulling out of its pandemic slump.
Uber is recovering from the pandemic and the driver shortages that followed, the company said on Wednesday. The company’s revenue in the second quarter grew 105 percent from the same period last year, to $3.9 billion, slightly higher than analysts expected. Uber also recorded a rare profit of $1.1 billion, […]
Amazon expands same-day Prime delivery to 6 more U.S. cities – TechCrunch
Amazon announced this morning it’s expanding its faster, same-day delivery service to half a dozen more U.S. cities. The service, which the retailer has been working to make same-day delivery even faster over the past year, now offers consumers in a number of markets the ability to shop up to […]
Groceries in 10 Minutes: Delivery Start-Ups Crowd City Streets Across Globe
LONDON — Zipping around central London, among the bikes and scooters of Uber Eats, Just Eat and Deliveroo, is a new entrant promising almost instantaneous satisfaction for your craving for a bar of chocolate or pint of ice cream: Getir, a Turkish company that says it will deliver your groceries […]
Does Big Tech Make Good Neighbors?
This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays. Digital life reaches far beyond our screens into the real world. That means we must figure out how to live with the impacts of technology in our backyards. It isn’t always easy. […]
Instacart hires a top Facebook executive as its new chief.
Fidji Simo, the leader of Facebook’s eponymous app, said on Thursday that she was leaving the social network to become the chief executive of Instacart, the on-demand grocery start-up that is preparing to become a public company. Ms. Simo, 35, will replace Apoorva Mehta, 34, Instacart’s founder and chief executive, […]
Can Food Delivery Work for Everyone?
This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays. For many people — and restaurants — food delivery was a lifeline when in-person dining felt too risky or was closed during the pandemic. That habit seems to be here to stay, […]
A Pandemic Lifeline for Restaurants, Delivery Is ‘Here to Stay’
OAKLAND, Calif. — Last fall, as the weather cooled and coronavirus cases began to rise, May Seto, the owner of Grand Lake Kitchen in Oakland, refurbished a used pizza oven and started a takeout and delivery pizza business out of an extra kitchen where she had cooked for catering and […]
Hasta la vista, estilo de vida milénial
Hace unos años, mientras estaba en un viaje de trabajo en Los Ángeles, pedí un Uber para atravesar la ciudad en la hora pico. Sabía que iba a ser un trayecto largo, así que me armé de valor para desembolsar entre 60 y 70 dólares. En cambio, la aplicación estableció […]