{"id":308699,"date":"2019-06-05T07:45:53","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T05:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=308699"},"modified":"2019-06-05T07:46:24","modified_gmt":"2019-06-05T05:46:24","slug":"uber-to-merge-uber-eats-with-its-main-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/308699-uber-to-merge-uber-eats-with-its-main-app.html","title":{"rendered":"Uber to merge Uber Eats with its main app"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Uber is working on integrating the Uber Eats platform into its main ride-hailing service, <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2019\/06\/04\/uber-eats-uber-eats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>TechCrunch<\/strong><\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>The company confirmed to TechCrunch that it was merging a fully-functional web version of Uber Eats into the Uber app.<\/p>\n<p>The report said that Uber started rolling out a pilot of the merged app in April 2019, adding that Uber Eats would remain available as a standalone app after the two services are merged.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re rolling out a new way to order Eats directly in the Uber app on Android (we\u2019ve already been experimenting on iOS),\u201d Uber said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis cross-promotion gives riders who are new to Eats a seamless way to order a meal via a web view instead of opening up the App Store for download.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Android version of the merged app has reportedly rolled out to 17% of users in Uber Eats\u2019 international markets, although it is not available in cities where Uber offers bike and scooter rides.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/enterprise\/307074-uber-eats-launches-pick-up-service-in-johannesburg.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Uber Eats launches Pick-Up service in Johannesburg<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uber is working on integrating the Uber Eats platform into its main ride-hailing service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341028,"featured_media":277833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[49419,20853,35236],"class_list":["post-308699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-food-delivery","tag-uber","tag-uber-eats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308699"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}