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Yango Deli Tech Partners With Grocery Delivery Platform Nana

The partnership will allow Nana to significantly enhance user experience and support MENA region expansion plans.

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2 years ago

April 13, 2023

yango deli tech partners with grocery delivery platform nana

Nana, Saudi Arabia’s leading online grocery delivery platform, has a presence in 18 cities and offers speedy delivery of over 22,000 products. Today, the company announced a partnership with Yango Deli Tech to realize its MENA-wide expansion plans.

Yango Deli Tech is a “global company providing proprietary technologies and expertise for retailers”. The company’s AI-based smart technology solutions will help to make Nana’s fulfillment and delivery operations more efficient while boosting client experience and offering enhanced analytics.

The official partnership follows a pilot project at one of Nana’s stores earlier this year. The experiment showed that the delivery platform could reduce the average missing items per day by 97% using a warehouse management system featuring smart routing and a dedicated stock-picking app that decreased order preparation time by over 35%. At present, the partnership is working at full capacity across all of Nana’s stores.

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In a recent statement, Max Avtukhov, Yango Deli Tech’s CEO, commented: “We are honored to partner with Nana to advance on a global mission of making high-tech e-grocery the reality of today and provide best-in-class user experience to consumers in Saudi Arabia and other markets in the Middle East”.

Meanwhile, Sami Alhelwah, Nana Co-Founder and CEO, noted: “Tackling one of the major pain points of the retail sector within the region, we have partnered with Yango Deli Tech to provide our company with the technological and operational experience of other markets to address stock inaccuracies and replenishment inefficiencies which will support our vision and fuel our ambitious goals for further expansion and growth”.

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Will Upcoming Changes Turn Instagram Into A TikTok Clone?

Updates are rolling out for the grid layout and Reels length, while new editing tools clearly imitate those of the rival Chinese platform.

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3 days ago

January 24, 2025

Nour Nasir

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Instagram recently faced backlash for swapping its iconic square grid for rectangles, disrupting the aesthetic of thousands of carefully curated profiles. However, the Meta-owned platform isn’t stopping there, after announcing more incoming TikTok-like changes designed to give users greater control over their profiles.

“We launched a new tall grid on profiles this week and I got a lot of feedback, both positive and quite negative,” Instagram head Adam Mosseri shared in an Instagram caption on Monday. “The goal is a simpler, cleaner place that maintains, and even increases, creator control”.

Here are some of the details about further changes we can expect:

Customizable Grids: Users will soon be able to tweak how their posts appear on the grid, including adjusting image crops and reordering posts entirely.
Direct-To-Grid Posts: A new option will allow users to post directly to their profile grid without automatically adding it to their main feed.
Highlights Relocation: Instagram’s Highlights feature will move from above the grid into a dedicated tab, while also becoming part of the profile grid itself.
Longer Reels: Reels are getting a significant upgrade, with the maximum video length jumping from 90 seconds to 3 minutes.

The updates are part of Instagram’s ongoing effort to compete with TikTok, which narrowly avoided a US ban following a 75-day delay granted by President Donald Trump. With the Chinese video platform’s future remaining uncertain, Instagram seems eager to capture disillusioned users by offering features that feel increasingly similar to those of its rival.

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In fact, Instagram’s recent changes go beyond just the app’s layout: On Sunday, parent company Meta launched the standalone Edits app, a clear imitation of TikTok’s popular video-editing tool, CapCut. Additionally, Meta has been enticing creators with cash bonuses to encourage them to post their videos on Instagram and Facebook.

It’s clear Instagram is shifting its strategy to appeal to the short-form video crowd. Whether these changes will win over users or continue to spark discontent remains to be seen.