Uber agrees to sell South-East Asia business to Grab after costly battle


  • TECH
  • Monday, 26 Mar 2018

A ComfortDelgro taxi passes Uber and Grab offices in Singapore March 26, 2018. REUTERS/Edgar Su

SINGAPORE/SAN FRANCISCO: Ride-hailing firm Uber Technologies Inc has agreed to sell its South-East Asian business to bigger regional rival Grab, the firms said in a statement on Monday, marking the US company's second retreat from an Asian market. 

The deal is the industry's first big consolidation in South-East Asia, home to about 640 million people, and puts pressure on Indonesia's Go-Jek, which is backed by Alphabet Inc's Google and China's Tencent Holdings Ltd. 

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