Wal-Mart dabbles with ‘sharing economy’ to implement same-day delivery

Wal-Mart experiments with a new crowdsourced delivery system where Walmart in-store customers deliver to online shoppers.

Hello Fresh reignites the art of cooking for Web 2.0

Food startup Hello Fresh raises $10 million to take all the effort out of home cooking (although there is still some chopping and heating involved.)

LivingSocial Instant flops, co-founder exits

In two big twists, LivingSocial said so long to its “Instant” deals product and its co-founder on the same day.

The number-two deals service aborted its location-based Instant deals product and replaced it with a food takeout and delivery offering …