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...Getir, the Istanbul-based online grocery start-up, acquired its German rival Gorillas last year, while several smaller companies have either significantly scaled back operations or gone out of business entirely...
...London-based Proxymity, which offers shareholder voting services and launched in the US late last month, said they are up against an “800lb gorilla in the room” in taking on Broadridge....
...It has survived the bonfire of superfast delivery services like Jokr and Gorillas and it is still adding users....
...(Sample FHM gag: “What do you get when you cross [a named female celebrity] with a gorilla? Don’t know. There’s only so much you can force a gorilla to do.”)...
...If it seeks to emulate this model in the German market, it will have to compete with the likes of Gorillas and Flink, two rapid delivery apps based in Berlin....
...Domino’s Pizza Inc, the US umbrella company, did not immediately respond to a request for comment....
...A number of the new ultrafast delivery apps, including Getir and Gorilla, already employ their workers. Charging higher prices to customers will be tricky, too....
...Other competitors, such as Getir and Gorillas, use the same “vertically integrated” model of owning inventory, warehouses and logistics....
...This may seem like a big number, but it is a far cry from the $6bn valuation that Gorillas was hoping to get earlier this year, according to sources close to the company....
...Uber’s investors may be tired of subsidising our rides, but newcomers like Gorillas and Getir want to bring groceries to our doors within 10 minutes....
...The new apps, which include GoPuff, Getir, Gorillas, Weezy and Dija, among many others, are using their war chests to offer heavy discounts, a tactic used by the more established food apps as they battled...
...Tim Bradshaw writes about Gopuff and the seven dwarfs — Weezy, Fancy, Jiffy, Flink, Dija, Gorillas and Zapp (all real names of rapid-delivery services) for FT Magazine. 2....
...Amazon, the 800lb gorilla of the tech world, is on a multiple of “just” 69 times. For now, it has no serious competition....
...But narrators such as Pratt are clear: “They’re the 800-pound gorilla.” After years of coexisting warily with the industry’s biggest beast, publishers are now starting to challenge it....
...But there are already gorillas in the mist and — from the traditional IT players to the pure-play cloud services — no one can feel safe. richard.waters@ft.com...
Corporate America is ploughing its excess cash into a wider range of assets
...ideological gaps FT Alphaville: Human capital and the jobs guarantee The dangers of Iraq’s oil law The measure creates an entity with sole responsibility for oil and gas development It is unfair to gorillas...
...“Softbank is the $100bn gorilla of the ride hailing industry. Having them at the cap table is very important when they are also investing in so many of our competitors around the world.”...
...For instance, in 2015, Google’s automated image-labelling algorithms misidentified African Americans as gorillas....
...Mr Cagney’s departure will mean that none of the founders of the big three “800-pound gorillas” of America’s online lending industry is still with the company he built....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on May 4. ©2017 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...people with knowledge of the discussions, the Sun’s parent company, News UK, has decided to part company with Mr MacKenzie after he wrote a column comparing Everton’s mixed-race footballer Ross Barkley to a gorilla...
...Gorilla Glass, Corning’s hardened material that was put into production to supply the first iPhone in 2007, is manufactured in Kentucky, South Korea, Japan and Taiwan, according to the company’s website....
...Kjellberg’s trademark irreverence has often veered into inappropriate territory: in one recent face-swap video, he reposted an auto-meme generator that used black actress Leslie Jones to represent Harambe, the gorilla...
...A potentially big ingredient (depending on how bad the crisis gets) will be how firmly the TSE is seen to be dealing with a gorilla-sized delinquent....
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