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Uber and Lyft Offering Half-Price Rides to Polling Places; Uber Eats, Others Offering Election Night Discounts Too

Rideshare companies Uber and Lyft are both offering 50%-off rides to polling places all day today, so you should take advantage if you're feeling lazy and still haven't voted. And you can score discounts and freebies on GrubHub, Uber Eats, and at Krispy Kreme.

Business & Tech

Uber Eats Already Outsourcing Delivery to Robots Via Partnership With Waymo

Uber once had grand plans to operate its own driverless taxis, but now it's playing nice and partnering with Waymo to have food delivered without humans involved in Phoenix.

Business & Tech

Uber Actually Turned a Profit For the First Time Since Going Public Five Years Ago

Guess it’s time to knock off the jokes about how Uber loses so much money, as the company just posted a $1.9 billion profit for 2023, its first annual profit since Uber’s 2019 IPO.

Business & Tech

After Buying Alcohol Delivery App Drizly For $1.1B, Uber Is Shutting It Down

Three years after acquiring alcohol delivery app Drizly, Uber is shutting the platform down and moving all liquor delivery services to Uber Eats.

Bay Area Sports

DoorDash Delivery Guy Walks Onto Floor During Basketball Game, Internet Debates If It Was Publicity Stunt

Wednesday night’s Loyola Chicago-Duquesne college basketball game was interrupted by a fake DoorDash delivery person wandering onto the court, and angry school officials insist it was a publicity stunt.

Business & Tech

Reddit's Five-Second Super Bowl Ad Outshines Bigger Spends By Uber Eats, DoorDash

Following a week in which Reddit was center stage in one of the biggest stories in the country — the Gamestop thing — the San Francisco company decided to buy five seconds of ad time to talk about that, in text.

Business & Tech

Uber Lays Off 15% of Postmates Staff, Just Two Months After Buying the Company

Nearly 200 Postmates employees got pink slips Monday in the wake of being acquired by Uber, but top Postmates executives will get “multimillion dollar exit packages.”

SF News

SF-Based DoorDash Planning IPO as Revenue Doubles to $1.9B This Year

After clearly waiting for Proposition 22 to pass in California, DoorDash has put in motion plans to go public after filing papers that signaled its intent to do so on Friday.

Business & Tech

Uber Reportedly In Talks To Acquire GrubHub

As the pandemic has shifted Uber's business thinking in the direction of more food delivery, the company has reportedly made an offer to acquire GrubHub, the app-based meal delivery rival of Uber Eats and parent company of the Seamless, MenuPages, and Eat24 brands.

SF News

Laid-Off Alioto's Restaurant Server Turned Uber Eats Driver Has Car Stolen In the Mission

Yusuf Soylemez had only been driving for Uber Eats for about 10 days, trying to make ends meet after getting laid off from his job at a popular Fisherman's Wharf restaurant. And on Friday afternoon he had left his car idling when it got stolen on Mission Street.

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

Class Action Suit Claims Delivery Apps Are Using ‘Monopoly Power’ To Increase Meal Prices

Ever felt a bit say, ripped off by a delivery-app order? A recent class-action lawsuit filed in New York claims companies like Bay Area-based Uber Eats and Postmates have “monopoly power,” unfairly charging diners inflated amounts for meals that might otherwise be cheaper.

Business & Tech

Uber Eats Adds Order-Ahead/Dine-In Option For the Truly Impatient

If your entire goal in dining out is shoving some fuel in your pie hole and getting out a restaurant as fast as humanly possible, then Uber Eats has a swell new option for you.

SF News

A 25-Year-Old Uber Contractor Stole 25K In Uber Rides And Uber Eats

A 25-year-old Uber contractor was charged with grand theft after stealing over $25,000 in Uber rides and Uber Eats delivery. That's a lot of vegan chili fries. CBS 5 reports that Bernie

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