Delivery specialists identify most popular dishes in Dubai neighbourhoods
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Dubai Taxi deploys 600 motorbikes to support deliveries
Dubai Taxi Corporation announces 600 motorbike fleet to support delivery sector
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Careem goes to war with Talabat, slams delivery giant for rider safety, pay, working conditions
“Just a year ago most of Talabat’s riders walked off the job in a dispute over bad working conditions and poor pay, not a single Careem Captain stopped riding,” said Careem’s GM of Food, Alex Golden
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Talabat slams Careem’s controversial refund policy, ‘it hurts the riders’
“We don’t want campaigns like this because at the end of the day I think it just hurts the riders,” said the CEO
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Deliveroo boss says Careem’s controversial AED1 refund per minute delay policy sends the wrong message
Comments come as Deliveroo reports exceptional expansion results over past two years
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Dubai to build rest stops for delivery drivers
Dubai now has 2,891 delivery service companies, 48.3% more than year before
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Talabat to deliver medicine, prescriptions in Dubai
Talabat will start delivering medicines and prescriptions in Dubai
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Talabat reveals new hi-tech HQ at Dubai’s City Walk
Spread over 100,000 sq ft and three floors, the new talabat office in the heart of the emirate, the new facility will house over 2,000 employees
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Saudi Arabia announces financial aid for delivery app workers
Applicants must have delivered 30 orders at least in a month to be eligible for the financial aid
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Careem acquires subscription-based food delivery platform Munch:On in ongoing ‘Super App’ bid
Careem has in recent months grown to offer ride-hailing, payments, food, PCR testing and other services in one consolidated platform
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Careem and Hala cab drivers, delivery riders gain $352,280 as companies match customer tips
Careem and Hala then matched the amounts tipped, putting both 100 percent of each customer tip and another 100 percent match in each captain’s weekly pay throughout the holy month of Ramadan
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Video: Delivery Hero CEO Ostberg on $360m deal to buy Dubai’s InstaShop
Berlin-based food-delivery service Delivery Hero has agreed to buy InstaShop at a $360 million valuation to expand in the Middle East and North Africa.
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Uber Eats hires new Saudi boss to drive expansion
Assad Numan is appointed to lead the next phase of expansion for Uber Eats across the kingdom
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Uber Eats trials new Dubai pricing structure that could hike delivery fees 140%
Uber Eats said delivery will be ‘more affordable’, with a reduced fee for ‘nearby’ restaurants
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Why Mrsool is more popular than Uber, Facebook in Saudi Arabia
Saudi delivery app has tapped into the quirks of the Saudi market while the economy went through a major transformation
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Delivery man: Fetchr founder Idriss Al Rifai
Idriss Al Rifai, founder and CEO of courier app Fetchr, speaks to Arabian Business about the challenges of balancing colossal growth with maintaining the company’s DNA