February 19, 2015
Whole Foods’ Take On Loyalty And Apple Pay
Retailers like Whole Foods are beginning to see that customer loyalty can deliver when it comes to the company’s bottom line. That’s certainly the case with its own loyalty program...
February 18, 2015
Meet You At The Marketplace?
In 2009, Square found a way to turn a mobile phone into a cheap, wireless point of sale device, giving birth to a new payments vocabulary word – mPOS and...
February 17, 2015
Trackin Maps Real-Time Restaurant Delivery
As mobile food orders continue to develop technologically — and in keeping with the prediction of Rocket Internet’s CEO regarding the growth of this industry in mobile commerce — restaurants...
February 17, 2015
GrubHub Rival Just Eat Expands Latin American Presence
Recently made public company and GrubHub rival Just Eat announced this week that they had bought out Mexican online take-out service SinDelantal.mx, adding it to the Spanish SinDelantal it had...
February 11, 2015
Yelp Acquires GrubHub Rival For $134M
As reported in VentureBeat on Feb. 10, restaurant locator and media site Yelp announced that it has bought out online food ordering company Eat24. The deal, which was closed on Feb. 9...
February 09, 2015
PayPal’s Retail Future
Kerfuffle is one of my all-time favorite words. I used it a while back to describe the situation that happened when some CurrentC merchants decided to shut off NFC capabilities...
February 09, 2015
Rocket Internet Puts Stake In Food Delivery
German startup investment company Rocket Internet has added to its galaxy of food delivery partners by investing a 30-percent stake in take-out aggregator Delivery Hero, worth 496 million euros, Bloomberg reports....
February 06, 2015
GrubHub’s Delivery Play
The food on-demand delivery wars currently being waged between Google, Amazon and a host of start-up players had just gotten a new entrant: GrubHub. The company – which currently helps users...
February 04, 2015
2015 Starts Off With A Bang And Yummly Reimagines Food...
“What should I make for dinner?” It is a deceptively simple question. One that has a variety of answers – all of which are now much easier today, thanks to...
