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Articles tagged “grab”

Online Travel

Grab Enters Travel Booking With Hotels Now and Flights Next

In the face of a fast-growing and innovative rival, Grab’s foray into travel, starting with hotels, could give it an edge over archrival Go-Jek, which does not do travel — yet.

Raini Hamdi, Skift | 5 years ago

Grab Enters Travel Booking With Hotels Now and Flights Next

Online Travel

Google Maps Is Ready to Transform the World of Superapps: A Skift Deep Dive

Consumers in the West reach almost reflexively for the Google Maps app as the service becomes a nearly ubiquitous utility despite a dearth of messaging and payments. Whether it evolves into the next superapp may depend on whether users really want a do-everything app and the mood of regulators seeking to break up big tech.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 5 years ago

Google Maps Is Ready to Transform the World of Superapps: A Skift Deep Dive

Online Travel

Expedia Had a Less-Is-More Approach to Mergers in 2018

Expedia is an opportunistic company, and mergers and acquisitions are part of its DNA. The company has been quiet on this front for the past three years. It is sort of due to make another big splash.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 5 years ago

Expedia Had a Less-Is-More Approach to Mergers in 2018

Ground Transport

Grab Is Hiring Tech Talent to Become Southeast Asia’s First Super App

Grab will hire an additional 1,000 tech employees in 2019, after doubling the number of software engineers, data scientists, and analysts it added this year to 2,000. A look at its next R&D hiring plan gives a few hints on what it is working on.

Raini Hamdi, Skift | 5 years ago

Grab Is Hiring Tech Talent to Become Southeast Asia’s First Super App

Online Travel

Expedia Isn’t Ready to Invest Big in Restaurant Reservations

Expedia has dealt with a ton of distractions in recent years as it acquired Wotif, Travelocity, Orbitz Worldwide, and HomeAway, for example. CEO Mark Okerstrom wants to focus on the basics instead, and doesn't want to take bold steps into dining reservations or food delivery for now. On the other hand, Expedia is a very acquisitive company so never say never.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 5 years ago

Expedia Isn’t Ready to Invest Big in Restaurant Reservations

Ground Transport

Grab’s $100 Million Investment in Oyo Is Part of SoftBank’s Bigger Plan

Grab’s $100 million investment in Oyo is just the start of a strategy to have a tag-team under the same major investor, which is leveraging the strengths of each member of its portfolio. Expect to see more "teams of unicorns" attacking incumbents in the next year or so.

Raini Hamdi, Skift | 5 years ago

Grab’s $100 Million Investment in Oyo Is Part of SoftBank’s Bigger Plan

Tourism

Grab’s Tie-Up With Indonesia Tourism Gives a Glimpse of Ambitions Beyond Ridehailing

Grab’s partnership with Indonesia’s tourism ministry, the first of its kind between a national tourism body and a ridehailing platform, reveals one of the initial ways it is trying to become Southeast Asia’s super app for a plethora of travel services.

Raini Hamdi, Skift | 5 years ago

Grab’s Tie-Up With Indonesia Tourism Gives a Glimpse of Ambitions Beyond Ridehailing

Ground Transport

Here’s Why Hyundai Is Investing Another $250 Million in Ridehailing Service Grab

Grab is the go-to for motor companies wanting a piece of Southeast Asia’s future mobility market, as Hyundai’s additional tenfold investment shows.

Raini Hamdi, Skift | 5 years ago

Here’s Why Hyundai Is Investing Another $250 Million in Ridehailing Service Grab

Online Travel

Booking Holdings Invests $200 Million in Grab as Ridehailing Becomes More Strategic

It's becoming increasingly clear that online travel players will try to leverage the heck out of connections between food delivery, ridehailing, and booking hotels. Uber and Lyft will undoubtedly become a bigger part of the action, as well.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 5 years ago

Booking Holdings Invests $200 Million in Grab as Ridehailing Becomes More Strategic

Business Travel

Priority Pass Parent Expands Further Into Dining

Collinson, the parent company of Priority Pass, made a wise move investing in airport-food-ordering app Grab. There's plenty to improve about the experience of dining in the terminal.

Sarah Enelow-Snyder, Skift | 6 years ago

Priority Pass Parent Expands Further Into Dining