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...Toast, which specialises in restaurants, reported a 38 per cent year-on-year increase on this measure....
...Chang’s and business technology provider Computer Services Inc....
...But low-priced Indian fare and salacious marketing gimmicks aren’t the only businesses engaged in by the restaurant’s owner, Aman Chourasia....
...In August 2020, scammers hacked into London’s Ritz hotel’s restaurant reservation system in an effort to convince guests to pass over their valuable payment details....
...Be sure to check out the full line up of events, and don’t miss Sid’s interview with David Mercer, chief executive officer of the LMAX Group....
...Reach out to me (imani.moise@ft.com) or Sid (sid.v@ft.com) to let us know. Happy reading!...
...The wild card remains robot taxis, once seen as the answer to Uber’s labour and wage problems....
...South Korean ecommerce group Coupang has appointed Pedro Franceschi, co-founder and co-chief executive of corporate card fintech start-up Brex, to its board of directors....
...“If you can’t go to a restaurant, you will order in. So the inverse will happen when restaurants reopen.”...
...Members of the Knighthead group retreated to a celebratory dinner at a nearby Italian restaurant, Il Gabbiano....
...Friday: Nanofilm Technology lists on the Singapore stock exchange, the biggest IPO in the city state in years....
...and debit card data....
...Investors have always been adept at using new technologies to gain an informational advantage....
...Evidently, Washington’s top chef and food philanthropist (he’s distributed millions of meals since the lockdown began) is not as skilled in technology as he is at cooking....
...Uber co-founder and former chief executive Travis Kalanick is leaving the company’s board and has sold his last shares in the company, effectively severing ties with the ride-hailing group and wrapping up...
...Credit card groups charge stores fees of up to 4 per cent on transactions. Investing in new payment hardware has deterred others....
...“This is typical of Japan Inc....
...WPP will also reduce is planned capex from £400m to v£300m....
...DD’s Indap v NYU’s Damodaran: Is stock compensation good or bad?...
...Would she have been plotting with the European Research Group of Brexiter MPs? “She would have been by far the most formidable member of the ERG.”...
...One Zhejiang-based technology company explicitly forbid employees from buying iPhones and offered subsidies for buying Huawei phones, instead....
...For the moment, fans are shouting down worries this is just a new version of an old game where pharma groups swap divisions like cards in the playground....
...The deal comes as disruption in the payments industry heats up, with a wave of consolidation seen among traditional financial services providers and technology groups....
...Uber’s share of US ride-hailing revenues was about 70 per cent, compared with just under 30 per cent for Lyft, according to research group Second Measure, which analyses anonymised credit and debit card...
...Uber Eats has outpaced its peers in gaining US market share, according to Second Measure, a research group that analyses anonymised credit and debit card data....
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