KDDI to invest in Japan's third largest food delivery app Menu

Carrier hopes $45m deal will boost use of its mobile payment in growing market

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Japanese telecom operator KDDI will take a 20% stake in the country's No. 3 food delivery service, hoping to boost is mobile payments business. (Source photo by Kaisuke Ota)

Nikkei staff writers

TOKYO -- Japan's KDDI is set to invest in the country's third-largest food delivery service, Menu, as the telecom operator seeks to expand its mobile payment platform by making use of delivery data amid flat growth in the telecommunications business.

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