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...It would have been sacrilegious to sell special rights to jump the long queue to witness Queen Elizabeth II’s lying-in-state last year....
...“I campaigned on scooter in 2012. It was tremendous,” he says, very matter of fact, when I bring up the episode....
...After raising private capital from blue-chip Silicon Valley funds including Sequoia Capital, Index Ventures and Accel, Bird merged with blank-cheque company Switchback II in November last year at an initial...
...This is more than the market value of Switchback II Corporation, the special acquisition company with which it went public via a reverse merger....
...After starting out as a competitor to traditional taxis and high-end limos, Uber has gradually added more features to its app, from Eats restaurant and grocery deliveries to bikes and scooters....
...Moreover, housebound customers often prefer knocking up a fresh meal in the kitchen to waiting for cooling victuals to arrive by scooter....
...So we will partner with experts in running a store or restaurant.”...
...Gore-Coty compared the funding frenzy around 10-minute grocery apps to the earlier spending spree around electric bike and scooter rental services such as Bird, Lime, Voi and Tier....
...We saw similar outcomes for Aurora Capital, which agreed to a deal with the SoftBank-backed mortgage lender Better, and Switchback II, the Spac transporting electric scooter start-up Bird to public markets...
...Southdale was inspired by “European galleries and passages, especially the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan”, Gruen wrote....
...Merging its own scooter operation into Lime and supplying new leadership for the company means it has gone some way to rationalising the fragmented scooter business in the US, at the same time giving it...
...CBRE Group estimates about 70 per cent of restaurant deliveries will come from intermediaries such as Grubhub by 2022. Yet the fight for customers and restaurants is costly. Uber has cash of $9bn....
...Don’t mind if we do: We define Adjusted ebitda as net income (loss), excluding (i) income (loss) from discontinued operations, net of income taxes, (ii) net income (loss) attributable to non-controlling...
...“The past year has shown people they can do their jobs just as well from here as from anywhere else,” concludes Elizabeth Hanley, president of Windsor Real Estate Inc....
...for most restaurants....
...It trimmed its headcount by 1,100 last year and scaled back plans for scooter expansion....
...That said, we remain confident in our current strategy and our recent initiatives to support restaurants in this challenging environment.”...
...rentals (2018) Deliveries Uber Eats — restaurant deliveries, now in around 300 cities (2014) B2B Uber for Business — rides for employees, paid for by employers (2014) Uber Freight — matching trucking...
...Uber has offloaded its ebike business, Jump, to scooter group Lime, in return for a stake in that company, and it has given up on Uber Works, its temping platform....
...The Sony Xperia 1 II has a 6.5in OLED display, 8GB of RAM, 256GB of storage, and a 4000mAh battery....
...And Citigroup warms to both Sodexo and Restaurant Group....
...Every day, hundreds of thousands of scooter-riding couriers like Sarfaraz Mansuri wind through the congested streets of Indian cities, competing to deliver burgers, biryani and dosas to hungry clients at...
...I also enjoy reading about wine and visiting good restaurants. It’s visible,” he says, patting his belly....
...Gross bookings — the money it takes in before paying drivers and restaurants — rose 31 per cent from a year ago to $15.8bn....
...London Inc has championed the industry, and fintech companies looked set to be a vital source of listings for the Brexit-hit bourse....
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