With the simple touch of a smartphone, online food delivery services conveniently offer takeaway food straight to your door. Contact-free delivery has surged in popularity as lockdowns have limited physical access to restaurants and food outlets. Industry reports suggest Australians are spending three times more on online food delivery than before the COVID-19 pandemic. Globally,… Read more »
Welcome to Monday. Don’t forget to tune into the Startup Daily show on the business TV streaming channel ausbiz.com.au every weekday, 2-3pm, where we talk to startup founders, investors and innovators about everything tech. If you’ve missed an episode, you can catch up on the ausbiz site here. 1. Uber buys rival Postmates for $3.8bn Uber is spending… Read more »
A former Uber Eats rider who was removed from the platform for being 10 minutes late with a delivery has lost her unfair dismissal case after the Fair Work Commission (FWC) found she was an independent contractor to the company and did not meet the benchmarks to qualify an employee for an unfair dismissal claim.… Read more »
Nearly 9000 taxi drivers just scored $152 million from Uber as compensation for its illegal launch in Australia 
Fresh from its $272 million win against Uber, class action lawyers Maurice Blackburn are now eyeing off Google’s adtech 
SISTER ACT: Nicola Forrest drops $100 million into an investment fund to back women 
Zip cofounder Larry Diamond makes his exit to focus on philanthropy 
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