By Katie Forster TOKYO, March 5, 2024 (AFP) – “Caution: robot!” chirps the green self-driving delivery vehicle as it trundles down the street to a pork cutlet restaurant in Tokyo to pick up a meal ordered on Uber Eats. Starting Wednesday, robot deliveries will be offered in a small area of the city by the US-based food app, which hopes to eventually roll out the service more widely in Japan. The country, facing growing labour […]
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Uber Eats to quit Hong Kong after five years
HONG KONG, China (AFP) – Online food delivery platform Uber Eats announced on Tuesday it will quit Hong Kong at the end of 2021, ending five years of a battle for a share of the competitive food delivery market. Uber announced the “difficult decision” in an online statement, which gave no reason for why it was winding down operations. The company said it would now redouble its commitment to its ride-sharing in Hong Kong, a […]





