The Uber–Delivery Hero deal is being described as the largest merger in the history of food delivery. That is true, and it misses the point. The transaction redraws the map of a sector that has become central to the Middle East's digital economy, and it sets Arab competition authorities a real test of what they are for.
The deal
To what extent can Uber’s acquisition of Germany’s Delivery Hero be considered the largest deal in the food delivery sector so far?
The answer seems obvious: the 14.8 billion-dollar deal is not merely a stronger player gobbling up a rival; it is a fundamental redrawing of an industry that has become one of the core pillars of
Dubai Police have warned against imitating videos circulating on social media platforms in which some children and teenagers put ‘slime’ in microwave ovens to raise its temperature and increase its flexibility.
The warning, issued by the Child and Women Protection Department at General Department of Human Rights and the
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