AmEx buys dining reservation company Tock from Squarespace for $400M
American Express will acquire the dining reservation and event management platform Tock from Squarespace for $400 million cash.
Jun 21, 2024
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Business
American Express will acquire the dining reservation and event management platform Tock from Squarespace for $400 million cash.
Jun 21, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Berkeley's agreement to throw out its first-in-the-nation ban on gas hookups in new buildings after losing a court challenge might seem like a big loss for climate action.
Apr 8, 2024
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Robotics
You may have already seen them in restaurants: waist-high machines that can greet guests, lead them to their tables, deliver food and drinks and ferry dirty dishes to the kitchen. Some have cat-like faces and even purr when ...
Apr 6, 2023
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Consumer & Gadgets
In the effort to reduce plastic waste in the restaurant industry—single-use takeout containers, specifically—University of Michigan researchers compared the lifetime environmental impacts of single-use and reusable food ...
Jan 24, 2023
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Internet
Dallas-based telecommunications giant AT&T is partnering with fast food chain McDonald's U.S. to bring high-speed business fiber internet to 750 restaurants.
Jul 13, 2022
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Business
Amazon Prime customers in the United States will be able to receive a year of free restaurant delivery through Grubhub+ under a deal announced Wednesday by Just Eat Takeaway.com.
Jul 6, 2022
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Consumer & Gadgets
Just two companies, DoorDash and UberEats—both based in San Francisco—arrange five out of every six restaurant meal deliveries in the U.S.
Jun 8, 2022
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Internet
Orlando restaurateur Robert Earl plans to offer eateries a chance to serve a delivery-only menu based on trends from the popular short video app TikTok in 2022, just the latest twist in the growing virtual restaurant trend.
Jan 5, 2022
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Robotics
From the rubble of Iraq's war-ravaged city of Mosul arises the sight of androids gliding back and forth in a restaurant to serve their amused clientele.
Nov 22, 2021
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Business
Virtual reality meetings, $7,000 all-in-one kits and digital hot desking: Big Tech is rolling out premium tools as the work-from-home era looks set to last well beyond the pandemic.
Sep 15, 2021
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