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Discover New Eateries with Uber Eats’ Latest Video Feed, Inspired by TikTok!

Uber Eats is launching a TikTok-like short-form video feed to boost discovery and help restaurants showcase their dishes. With this launch, Uber Eats now joins numerous other popular apps that have launched their own short-form video feeds following TikTok’s rise in popularity, including Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat, and Netflix to name a few. The new Uber Eats short-form videos are visible in carousels placed across the app, including the homescreen. Verma also shared that in order to further support merchants, the company has revamped its Uber Eats Manager software and added personalized growth recommendations. Uber Eats announced today that it now has more than one million merchants around the world on its platform, across 11,000 cities in six continents.

Ava Patel
April 8, 2024

Enterprise

Fantuan Takes Over Chowbus: Food Delivery Business

Fantuan, a Vancouver, Canada-based Asian food delivery company, announced it acquired Chowbus’ delivery business line. In addition to restaurant delivery the company also works in the fresh grocery delivery and dine-in service segments. After consolidating Chowbus’ delivery business, Fantuan plans to solidify its Asia-focused food delivery services across cities in the U.S. Meanwhile, antitrust regulators in the European Union had similar cartel suspicions and raided two online food delivery companies in November. And Indian food delivery company Swiggy went on a buying spree.