Uber's food-delivery business doubles; COVID-19 eviscerates rides demand

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Uber Technologies Inc said demand for its food-delivery service more than doubled in the second quarter as many users remained largely homebound, while demand for ride-hailing trips was only marginally recovering from pandemic rock-bottom.

FILE PHOTO: Delivery bags with logos of Uber Eats are seen on a street amid the outbreak of the coronavirus disease in central Kiev, Ukraine May 27, 2020. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko/File Photo

The company on Thursday posted a $1.8 billion net loss in the months from April to June, including charges related to the laying off of 23% of its global workforce during a period when infections of the novel coronavirus continued to spread in the United States, Uber’s largest market.Uber’s second-quarter revenue fell 29% to $2.24 billion from the year prior, beating analysts’ average estimate of $2.18 billion, according to IBES data from Refinitiv.

 

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