Uber Officially Gives Up Competition with Rival Grab in Asia Advertiser Disclosure The credit card offers that appear on the website are from credit card companies from which ThePointsGuy.com receives compensation. This compensation may impact how and where products appear on this site (including, for example, the order in which they appear). This site does […]
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Deal Alert: US to Southeast Asia From $514 Round-Trip
Deal Alert: US to Southeast Asia From $ 514 Round-Trip Advertiser Disclosure The credit card offers that appear on the website are from credit card companies from which ThePointsGuy.com receives compensation. This compensation may impact how and where products appear on this site (including, for example, the order in which they appear). This site does […]
Uber’s CEO killed rumours the firm’s about to pull out of Southeast Asia and India
Getty Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi reaffirmed on Thursday that the company would be investing heavily in Southeast Asia. Uber is still expecting to lose money in the region initially. Khosrowshahi said that a decade from now he expects 80 percent of growth at Uber to be organic and some through acquisitions. NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Uber Technologies Inc’s chief executive […]
Uber may sell off its Southeast Asia business to improve its finances as it prepares to IPO
Drew Angerer/Getty Images Uber is reportedly planning to sell its business in Southeast Asia to rival Grab. It’s likely to receive equity in Grab as part of the deal. Uber’s CEO said last week that operating in developing markets is an “optional investment” for the company. Uber is reportedly preparing to sell its business in […]
Turkish soldiers missing as flooding hits south-east
A search is ongoing for two missing Turkish soldiers after their armored vehicle fell into a river during a flood. According to an official statement, a group of four soldiers were on guard duty in Sanliurfa province in the southeast of the country, near the border with Syria, when the vehicle carrying them toppled over […]
Uber is reportedly preparing to sell its Southeast Asia business
Late last year Uber sold off its business in China to a competitor, and now it looks like the Southeast Asia region could follow a similar path. CNBC reports that it’s preparing to make a deal with Grab, a company that claimed to have 95 percent of ride-hailing business in the region last year. Grab […]
Uber Is Losing to Grab in Southeast Asia
The Uber of Singapore has figured out how to make ride-sharing work in the developing world: rethink everything. https://media.wired.com/photos/5a74be39c8b8634a4ab3a86f/master/pass/Grab-FeatureArt-547172032.jpg
16 predictions for the Chinese and Southeast Asian games industry in 2018
GUEST: In celebration of 16 years of delivering market intelligence on the Chinese and Greater Southeast Asian digital games industry, we’ve put together 16 predictions about the 2018 digital games industry in the eight markets we cover: China, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, and Taiwan (Chinese Taipei). China is the single most important […]
Deal Alert: US to Southeast Asia From $463 Round-Trip
Deal Alert: US to Southeast Asia From $ 463 Round-Trip Advertiser Disclosure The credit card offers that appear on the website are from credit card companies from which ThePointsGuy.com receives compensation. This compensation may impact how and where products appear on this site (including, for example, the order in which they appear). This site does […]
How to rent a scooter in Southeast Asia (and live to tell the tale)
That said, it could be. As I’d find out once I’d left the insanity of Ho Chi Minh City—the dust, the crowds, the honking—and hit the open roads of the Mekong Delta, riding a motorbike or scooter in Vietnam, and indeed in the rest of Southeast Asia, doesn’t have to be a white-knuckle nightmare. In […]
