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Just Eat Takeaway orders grow again after 55 months of decline, Prosus says

Just Eat Takeaway’s orders grew year on year in September for the first time in 55 months, its owner Prosus said on Thursday. Chief executive Fabricio Bloisi gave the figure in a letter to shareholders that also covers iFood, Prosus’s food delivery business in Brazil. Prosus said in a regulatory statement that its auditor has […]

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DoorDash’s Tony Xu says AI agents will increase demand for human labour

DoorDash co-founder and chief executive Tony Xu says more AI agents will mean more demand for physical delivery networks, and even for human labour. He spoke on Wednesday at Wave by Vento in Turin, in a session titled “Inside the Making of DoorDash”. AI agents have probably already overtaken humans in the number of things […]

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The 9 best accounts receivable automation software platforms for 2026

How nine AR automation platforms compare on collections automation and cash application, and which one keeps its AI inside auditable controls Allianz Research puts average global DSO at around 59 days, while roughly $10 trillion sits in unpaid invoices globally. Cash that sits in receivables is cash a company can’t deploy, which is why late […]

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Amazon’s About You page goes viral for what it guesses about shoppers

Amazon’s “About You” page has become a social media hit, for the things it says about shoppers. One user on Threads found that Amazon had concluded she “has flat buttocks”, Business Insider reported on Tuesday. Her post set off a wave of others sharing their own profiles. About You lists the details Amazon has drawn […]

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Sereact’s robots now sort Zalando returns in Germany and Poland

Robots from Stuttgart start-up Sereact are now sorting Zalando’s fashion returns in live operations in Germany and Poland. The two-armed machines work at CEVA Logistics sites in Greven, Germany, and Świebodzin, Poland, the three companies said on Wednesday. It is the first step of a plan to automate returns across Europe. Zalando joined Sereact’s Series […]

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Spiko raises a $90M Series B led by NEA for its tokenised cash funds

Spiko, a Paris and London company that issues tokenised cash funds, has taken its total funding to $120 million, it said in a statement on Tuesday. New Enterprise Associates (NEA) led the $90 million Series B. Index Ventures, Bpifrance, Speedinvest, Flourish Ventures, Shapers and White Star Capital took part. So did Blockwall, Frst, EQNX, Mirana […]

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Asos app users get an alert claiming its Snowflake instance was compromised

Asos app users in the UK got a push notification on Tuesday morning in which the senders claimed to have fully compromised the online fashion retailer’s Snowflake instance. The message, titled “ASOS HACKED”, addressed the company’s data protection officer (DPO) and IT team. “Dear ASOS DPO and IT, we have fully compromised the Snowflake instance. […]

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Uber to buy ezCater for $2.3bn to bring workplace catering to Uber Eats

Uber has agreed to buy ezCater, a US platform for workplace catering, for $2.3bn in cash. Uber and ezCater announced the deal in a joint statement on Tuesday. The purchase brings ezCater’s catering orders to Uber Eats and to Uber for Business, Uber’s service for company accounts. Boston-based ezCater lets businesses order food for meetings, […]

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TikTok adds an AI shopping assistant and one-click checkout to its app

TikTok is adding an AI shopping assistant and one-click checkout to its app. The two features let users buy directly from brands without leaving TikTok, the company said in an announcement at Advertising Week New York on Monday. Buy Direct is an in-app checkout. Users can buy from a brand straight from the For You […]

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AI broke the economics of software. Vayu wants to be the first to tell a CFO which customers are losing them money

Here is a problem the software industry did not have three years ago. A customer signs a contract for an AI product. They use it heavily, which is what every vendor wants. Every one of those uses costs the vendor money: tokens, compute, third-party model calls. The invoice goes out at the agreed price. The […]

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