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  • Google India delivers for food fans

    Google India delivers for food fans

    Working with local partners, Google India has made online ordering and restaurant bookings easy.

    When people use their phones to search Google for nearby restaurants, the search results offer an option to “place an order”.

    By tapping the option, users can choose a delivery service and be taken to its website to complete their order. Users can also make a one-click reservation if they prefer to visit the restaurant.

    Google has partnered with startups Swiggy and Zomato for food delivery, and Bytplus and Dineout for reservations. The services can be used on Google Search and the Google app for both Android and iOS devices.

    “These features are just rolling out and we’ll be adding more partners and evolving the look and feel over time,” Google says in an official blog.

    Earlier, Google Maps stitched in Ola and Uber services on its platform in India, showing fares and riding options from the app-based taxi aggregators.

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  • Foodpanda India ‘likely to close’

    Foodpanda India ‘likely to close’

    Foodpanda India appears likely to be shut down after parent Rocket Internet failed to find a buyer at a bargain basement price.

    It’s the latest chapter for the increasingly troubled Asian operations of Foodpanda which last monthgave up in Vietnam after failing to win market share off rivals and in Hong Kong axed its upmarket spinoff brand Foodora, merging the two businesses into one.

    India’s Economic Times reports Foodpanda is “desperately searching for a buyer” for the troubled Indian business, despite setting the price tag at just US$10 – $15 million.

    “Both Zomato and Swiggy have been approached for a buyout, besides one larger horizontal company. But Rocket is yet to garner keen interest from possible suitors for Foodpanda,” another source told theTimes of India.

    At the end of December, Foodpanda India laid off 300 staff , about 15 per cent of its local workforce, as it faced increasing competition from Zomato. The company said the redundancies were the result of achieving near 98 per cent automaticon of its ordering process.

    The Economic Times reports Rocket’s problems in India are not restricted to Foodpanda.

    “The Samwer brothers-led Rocket Internet’s interest in its Indian portfolio has been waning with most of its flagship firms, including FabFurnish and PrintVenue, being put on the block,” the newspaper said.

    It concluded that if a buyer for the sites cannot be found the company would simply close them.