Uber rival GrabTaxi launches a limo service for Southeast Asia, starting in Malaysia

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by on May 16, 2014 at 9:14 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Asia, grabtaxi, Southeast Asia

(Left to Right) GrabCar Driver, Low Ngai Yuen (President, Kakiseni), Freda Liu (Producer & Presenter, BFM 89.9), Anthony Tan (Founder & Group CEO, MyTeksi), Nina Teng (General Manager, Grabcar)
GrabTaxi, the taxi-booking service that operates in Southeast Asia, is taking a leaf out of big rival Uber’s book after it unveiled its first private car booking service. The current GrabTaxi service lets users summon nearby public taxi cabs in Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam and Singapore — but the company describes its new ‘GrabCar’ offering as a “limo service.” That’s most definitely Uber territory. Initially available in its home market of Malaysia, GrabCar bookings can be made from inside the existing GrabTaxi app, which the company today revealed has passed 1.2 million downloads across those five countries. GrabTaxi explains that its limo car rates are “calculated…

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