AirAsia CEO Takes On New Website Role and 8 Other Digital Trends This Week
Tom Lowry
August 31st, 2019 at 1:30 PM EDT
Skift Take
This week in digital news, AirAsia CEO Tony Fernandes took on the new role of CEO of AirAsia.com, while hotel tech startup Mews raises $33 million in a bid to challenge Oracle Hospitality. Meanwhile, ridehailing service Grab is taking advantage of Uber's exit from Vietnam.
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AirAsia Chief Tony Fernandes Takes On Added Role as CEO of Airline's Website: AirAsia’s head honcho can’t wait to transform the airline — he's in the driver’s seat for AirAsia.com and pulling in the best of his troop on the journey. Second-quarter results, just out, show a rather promising platform.
Google Maps Poised to Be an $11 Billion Business in 4 Years: When you're Google, you can take more than a decade to hone a product such as Google Maps and attract more than a billion users without having to worry that it isn't
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