As restaurant aggregators push back on inflation-related trade-down, discounts are key to maintaining frequency. Uber Eats, for its part, is making a play for affordability with the Uber-wide Uber One paid membership program, which offers free delivery on food orders, among other perks. The company...
Instacart is now providing same-day delivery from 1,500 PetSmart stores in the United States. The expansion of this partnership into the U.S. follows the successful launch of the offering from 150 PetSmart stores in Canada, the companies said in a Tuesday (May 2) press release....
Tech rivals Apple and Google say they’re uniting against a common foe: unwanted tracking. “Location-tracking devices help users find personal items like their keys, purse, luggage, and more through crowdsourced finding networks,” the companies said Tuesday (May 2). “However, they can also be misused for unwanted tracking...
When it comes to its purchase of Silicon Valley Bank’s British arm, HSBC is thinking globally. In an interview Tuesday (May 2) with Bloomberg Television, HSBC CEO Noel Quinn said his bank’s purchase of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) U.K. will help lay the groundwork for...
Aligned has raised $5.8 million to develop a network that aims to streamline B2B dealmaking. The company will use the new funding to continue building out its B2B buyer-seller network that is designed to enable more effective collaboration and eliminate the need for email threads,...
Boodil has launched a Pay by Portal solution to allow businesses to take account-to-account payments. This new solution enables merchants to send out payment links via SMS, email or QR code; collect payments from customers via an open banking payment method; and reduce credit card...
Uber’s latest quarterly earnings results showed a continued rebound in ride-hailing, and the company’s membership program, Uber One, continued to show evidence that the “cross-selling” opportunity offered by the mobility giant continues to gain fruit. The company said in its earnings and supplemental materials that...
1-800-FLOWERS.COM has acquired SmartGift to expand its consumer and corporate gifting capabilities. The acquisition will add the functionality of SmartGift’s intelligent gifting platform to 1-800-FLOWERS.COM’s family of brands focused on providing gifts, the companies said on Tuesday (May 2). “With the addition of SmartGift, Inc. to the 1-800-FLOWERS.COM, Inc. portfolio,...
David’s Bridal has debuted a new membership perk as it tries to remain afloat. Throughout May — to coincide with Small Business Month — customers who are Diamond members at the specialty retailer will receive gift cards for women-owned small businesses, the company announced in...
