South Africa’s largest online retailer, Takealot.com, will remain open during the Covid-19 lockdown in South Africa, but will only be able to supply goods deemed essential by the government to customers.
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South Africa’s biggest online shopping site, Takealot.com, hopes to keep operating through the three-week Covid-19 lockdown, which starts on Friday.
Amazon.com will hire 100 000 people – and give US workers a $2/hour raise in an effort to meet crushing demand from customers placing online orders for household essentials.
Naspers-controlled Internet investment firm Prosus is leading a $113-million (R1.7-billion) funding round in Swiggy, India’s largest food delivery platform.
Concern about the cost of Amazon’s one-day delivery pledge lingered after a busy holiday period, holding the stock back while shares of rivals including Microsoft, Google and Apple all rallied. That abruptly changed on Thursday.
Uber Technologies will sell Uber Eats in India to local rival Zomato in a $172-million deal, underscoring the ride-hailing giant’s effort to cut back on loss-making operations.
Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos is likely to be greeted by an unprecedented show of opposition during his short India visit this week, after thousands of small retailers pledged to protest its pricing practices.
Takeaway.com has won a months-long bidding war for Just Eat, ending a contentious battle with the Naspers spin-off Prosus and creating Europe’s largest food delivery operation.
Takeaway.com is set to declare final victory in the five-month takeover battle for UK food-delivery company Just Eat, people with knowledge of the matter said.
Just Eat chose a revised offer by Takeaway.com to merge and spurned a final all-cash bid by Naspers spin-off Prosus, which appears all but set to lose the drawn-out fight to claim ownership of the British food delivery firm.