Neowin News Feed for: Delivery

Uber teams up with Flytrex to offer drone food delivery to U.S. cities

Karthik Mudaliar — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 13:10:01 +0000

Uber has announced a partnership with Flytrex to bring drone delivery technology to select U.S. cities by the end of 2025. Read more...

Uber's new $20 billion gambit hides a deeper truth about its strategy

Paul Hill — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 13:50:02 +0000

Uber has released its second quarter earnings report for 2025. The ride-hailing firm has also said it's repurchasing $20 billion worth of shares. Read more...

Thieves are using AT&T tracking data to steal iPhones after delivery

David Uzondu — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 18:46:02 +0000

The holiday season is here, and porch pirates are stealing iPhones using stolen tracking data, making deliveries risky. Read more...

Uber Eats gets bill splitting feature so everyone pays their fair share

Paul Hill — Wed, 09 Mar 2022 22:06:02 +0000

Uber Eats now comes with a nifty bill splitting feature for group orders so that each member pays for their fair share. Members will be prompted to select their victuals in time for the order. Read more...

Deliveroo expands partnerships in the UK on the back of strong growth

Paul Hill — Tue, 22 Feb 2022 02:46:01 +0000

Deliveroo has announced that it will be doubling the number of partners in Birmingham, UK, after seeing a 300% increase in usage in the area between February 2020 and December 2021. Read more...

Online food ordering firm, Deliveroo, had a strong Q4'21

Paul Hill — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 08:36:01 +0000

Deliveroo saw strong growth in the fourth quarter as customers continued ordering food online rather than risk catching the coronavirus by going out to a restaurant to grab something to eat. Read more...

Uber collaborates with FTD ProFlowers to deliver bouquets in the US

Chandrakant Isi — Wed, 28 Jul 2021 18:26:01 +0000

Uber's flower delivery service will use FTD's network of local florists for swift deliveries. Initially available in select cities, it is set to launch throughout the US by early 2022. Read more...

Amazon expands in-garage delivery service to more than 4,000 U.S. cities

Usman Khan Lodhi — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 21:20:01 +0000

The Seattle firm is expanding its contactless in-garage delivery service to more than 4,000 cities across the U.S., including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Dallas, Houston, and more. Read more...

Amazon will offer permanent jobs to 70% of U.S. workforce hired during COVID-19

Usman Khan Lodhi — Thu, 28 May 2020 13:30:01 +0000

Amidst a demand surge caused by COVID-19, Amazon hired about 175,000 workers in the U.S. Now the firm has announced that nearly 70% of these hires will be offered permanent roles at the company. Read more...

Uber for Business launches Eats in new markets

Paul Hill — Wed, 08 Apr 2020 19:00:01 +0000

Uber for Business has launched its Eats service in Brazil, France, Canada, and the UK. Uber plans to roll out the service to more than 20 countries this year but didn't state which countries. Read more...

Amazon will stop non-essential sales and shipments in India

Usman Khan Lodhi — Tue, 24 Mar 2020 21:00:01 +0000

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the company announced on Tuesday that it will stop non-essential sales and shipments in the country, following a similar move in Italy and Spain. Read more...

Just Eat and Takeaway.com reach agreement on merger

Paul Hill — Mon, 05 Aug 2019 13:40:01 +0000

Just Eat and Takeaway.com have announced that they will merge following the agreement of their terms. Both firms are market leaders in several countries so the merger looks good for shareholders. Read more...

Apps can no longer offer marijuana delivery services on the Google Play Store

Muhammad Jarir Kanji — Thu, 30 May 2019 08:04:01 +0000

Google's recent updates to Play Store policies added marijuana to the list of restricted content on the platform, meaning apps will no longer be able to offer delivery services for cannabis. Read more...

Microsoft patents dynamic, en route UAV delivery system

Hamza Jawad — Sun, 10 Feb 2019 19:14:01 +0000

A new delivery mechanism has been patented by Microsoft that allows for the delivery of products directly to receiving vehicles while they travel between two locations, reducing delivery times. Read more...

Amazon brings Whole Foods Market deliveries and pickups to additional cities

Paul Hill — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 10:42:01 +0000

Amazon has announced that Whole Foods Market will offer deliveries and pickups in additional areas. The latest expansion brings the total number of areas served to just over 60 cities. Read more...

Amazon rolls out Hub lockers to over 500,000 apartment residents in the U.S.

Jay Bonggolto — Tue, 19 Jun 2018 18:58:02 +0000

Hub by Amazon, a delivery locker system that quietly launched last July, provides apartment residents in the U.S. quick and secure access to their packages anytime from any sender, not just Amazon. Read more...

Amazon Logistics Photo on Delivery being trialed in some US metro areas

Paul Bass — Fri, 02 Mar 2018 13:44:01 +0000

Drones, smart locks and now photos? Amazon is now trialing a new home delivery feature that gives you visual confirmation that your package has been delivered and where you can find it. Read more...

Toyota teams up with Amazon, Pizza Hut, and Uber for driverless deliveries

Shreyas Gandhe — Tue, 09 Jan 2018 12:32:01 +0000

At the ongoing CES 2018 in Las Vegas, Toyota announced its partnership with Amazon, Pizza Hut, and Uber to develop driverless vehicles for delivering products to consumers in the future. Read more...

Amazon wants to take its relationship with you to the next level

Dreyer Smit — Wed, 25 Oct 2017 13:06:01 +0000

We all love receiving new packages, especially from online stores, however, having to wait around for the delivery can be boring, but it seems Amazon has a solution, and it wants access to your house. Read more...

Amazon launches Alexa voice shopping through Prime Now

Paul Hill — Tue, 21 Mar 2017 14:32:01 +0000

Amazon has updated its Alexa artificial intelligence to allow customers to buy goods from its own Prime Now store. Customers will have to have a default payment and default shipping address. Read more...

Amazon's making midnight deliveries for Call of Duty: Black Ops 3

Chris Schroeder — Mon, 02 Nov 2015 00:28:01 +0000

Instead of heading out to your nearest game store for the midnight release of Call of Duty: Black Ops 3, stay home and let Amazon bring it to you instead. Read more...

Microsoft is delaying Surface Hub shipments until January 1, 2016

Andy Weir — Wed, 12 Aug 2015 17:01:52 +0000

Microsoft delayed shipments of its massive Surface Hub displays last month, and today, the company revealed that it won't begin deliveries until January - six months after opening pre-orders. Read more...

Apple to offer delivery for online orders 'in four hours or less'

Jett Goldsmith — Fri, 05 Jun 2015 23:44:01 +0000

Apple has partnered with startup courier service Postmates to offer same-day delivery (within four hours) for most products through its app and web store, albeit currently only in the Bay Area. Read more...

Amazon testing trunk delivery service

Chris Schroeder — Wed, 22 Apr 2015 19:20:01 +0000

The online mega-store is testing out a new shipping method that would allow shipping services to leave ordered products in the trunk of your car; the pilot is starting with Germany. Read more...

Sprint ready to expand its phone hand-delivery service

Chris Schroeder — Tue, 14 Apr 2015 08:06:02 +0000

The underdog wireless service provider is ready to begin rolling out its new hand-delivery service to new U.S. markets when purchasing new phones. Read more...

Amazon Prime Now launches in Manhattan offering one-hour delivery

Mark Tyson — Thu, 18 Dec 2014 22:06:01 +0000

Amazon starts to offer a new super-speedy one or two hour delivery service. The Prime Now service starts to roll out in Manhattan today. Nappies and toilet paper are expected to be popular items. Read more...

Amazon introduces bike deliveries; drone system still stuck in limbo

Justin Luna — Sun, 14 Dec 2014 13:46:01 +0000

With Amazon's futuristic view of deliveries using drones having an undetermined fate, now they've introduced a faster (and more classic) way of getting your products delivered-- old school bicycles. Read more...

Amazon expands partnership with Royal Mail, now ships to local Post Offices

Vlad Dudau — Tue, 25 Nov 2014 10:24:02 +0000

Amazon is looking to make waves this holiday season and has expanded its partnership with the Royal Mail to now include over 10,000 post offices as official Amazon PickUp Locations. Read more...

UK: How to track your iPhone 5 shipping status

Steven Parker — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 08:13:29 +0000

Are you one of the lucky people in the UK patiently waiting for your iPhone 5 to arrive? If so, we've put togther a guide on how you can track your shipping status, after the jump. Read more...

Apple takes delivery of 188 mysterious ocean containers

Michael Stanclift — Sun, 25 May 2008 15:54:51 +0000

ImportGenius, a search engine that gathers "competitive intelligence" by monitoring U.S. Customs records of ocean containers entering American ports, reported on Friday that they've spotted a "major spike" since mid-March in ocean containers received by... Read more...

Amazon ordered to end free delivery on books in France

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 20:29:04 +0000

Amazon.com may not offer free delivery on books in France, the high court in Versailles has ruled. The action, brought in January 2004 by the French Booksellers' Union (Syndicat de la librairie franÃ§aise), accused Amazon... Read more...

Symantec Slips, but Closes In on AV Product Delivery

Thu, 03 May 2007 16:29:32 +0000

Symantec Corp. is slipping on its target delivery time for the next major upgrade of its security product for enterprises, code-named Hamlet, while it irons out final code wrinkles during beta testing. In May 2006,... Read more...

Toolkit to Disable Automatic Delivery of Internet Explorer 7

Thu, 27 Jul 2006 09:50:24 +0000

To help our customers become more secure and up-to-date, Microsoft will distribute Internet Explorer 7 as a high-priority update via Automatic Updates for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 soon after the final version of... Read more...

Dell to Stop Free Home Delivery of Computers

Fri, 30 Sep 2005 19:39:54 +0000

Dell Inc. will stop its practice of sending low-end computers to customers homes without charge in order to cut costs, the company said on Thursday. Starting on October 10, Dell's free shipping offer on basic... Read more...

Distributors not happy as Intel cuts delivery of hot CPUs

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 08 Aug 2003 18:09:11 +0000

Intel, in an effort to promote wide acceptance of the 800MHz FSB (front-side bus) standard, is cutting back deliveries of its 533MHz FSB CPUs to distributors, according sources. Distributors are not happy about Intel's strategy,... Read more...

Broadband delivery via power lines?

Tue, 11 Feb 2003 07:04:36 +0000

Coming to a home or office near you could be an electric Internet: high-speed Web access via ubiquitous power lines, of all things, making every electrical outlet an always-on Web connection. If it... Read more...

Breakthrough in Cross-Platform Game Delivery

Steven Parker — Sun, 07 Jul 2002 08:47:32 +0000

Thanks my mate Timan who sent this to me while looking for Eskimo Bob.. At the Electronic Entertainment Expo, TransGaming Technologies and Transitive Technologies will be unveiling a game-porting technology that can allow Windows-based x86... Read more...

3 Collaborate On Standard For Multimedia Content Delivery

Fri, 15 Feb 2002 11:04:58 +0000

Thanks Darren Bolton for this, you're da man! :D Apple Computer, Ericsson, and Sun Microsystems are joining forces to make it easier for network operators to deliver multimedia content such as movie clips... Read more...