Uber, the taxi and food delivery app, has created a dining experience at the top of a double decker bus at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, to promote its Visa card. The activation worked with chef Nic Yanes to create a menu that reflects Austin’s neighbourhoods with flavours including Thai, Japanese, Chinese, Tex-Mex and […]
China has become the first nation to embrace facial recognition technology to authorise digital payments following an innovative play by Alibaba to ease queues in local KFC restaurants. The so-called ‘smile to pay’ service has been introduced in the city of Huangzhou as part of a trial with the chicken chain to boost the customer […]
hungryhouse.co.uk has become the first online food ordering platform in the UK to be fully integrated with the UK’s leading cashback site Quidco, enabled by mobile commerce startup Button Technology. The online food ordering platform will now be featured on Quidco, showing the option to link directly through to hungryhouse with the touch of a […]
Starbucks announces an enhanced mobile app for Apple’s iOS which will allow customers to tip their baristas directly from the Starbucks for iPhone app. Beginning March 19, customers using Starbucks App for iPhone in the U.S., U.K. and Canada will experience a streamlined design and easy access to their account and My Starbucks Rewards information. In addition, customers […]