{
  "id": 17058939,
  "title": "Delivery services: US food delivery company Doordash buys competitor Instacart for $17 billion",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/29/lieferdienste-us-essenslieferant-doordash-kauft-konkurrenten",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-10-29T12:07:07.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Handelsblatt",
    "slug": "handelsblatt",
    "url": "https://www.handelsblatt.com/unternehmen/dienstleister/lieferdienste-us-essenslieferant-doordash-kauft-konkurrenten-instacart/100265918.html"
  },
  "original_language": "de",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "During Corona, delivery services benefited from a special boom. Now the consolidation of the industry is continuing. Other providers had also made purchases recently.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 3,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Semafor",
        "title": "DoorDash in exclusive talks to acquire Instacart",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/26/doordash-in-exclusive-talks-to-acquire-instacart",
        "published": "2026-10-26T19:30:43.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Fast Company",
        "title": "Why DoorDash is spending $17 billion to acquire Instacart",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/29/why-doordash-is-spending-17-billion-to-acquire-instacart",
        "published": "2026-10-29T11:58:46.000Z"
      }
    ]
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}