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Asia's Tech Titans: Grab

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Asia's Tech Titans: Episode One

07/04/2018 GMT

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Asia's Tech Titans looks at Southeast Asia's most valuable tech company, Grab.

Southeast Asia's most valuable tech company, Grab, recently became the latest ride-hailing player to drive Uber out of its home markets. But Grab isn't planning on stopping there.

Southeast Asia's most valuable tech company, Grab, recently became the latest ride-hailing player to drive Uber out of its home markets. But Grab isn't planning on stopping there. Last valued at some $6 billion dollars, the company has pursued an aggressive strategy to expand into the payments business, with plans to become much, much more. They want to become Southeast Asia's biggest consumer app - and that means Grab has now put itself in the same arena as the likes of global giants like Amazon, Apple, Alibaba and Tencent.

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Karishma Vaswani talks to three of Asia's most dynamic tech players.

Asia's tech entrepreneurs are increasingly giving the US tech giants a run for their money. Our Asia Business Correspondent Karishma Vaswani talks to three of the most dynamic play

Young, driven and already running multi-billion dollar businesses, the new generation of Asia's tech entrepreneurs not only want to dominate their home markets; they want to challenge the status quo, and change the way businesses are run and the way we live our lives. They are the ones that global tech giants are keeping an eye on, and they are the ones redefining ideas of just what tech companies can become, and how much they can achieve.   Over three episodes, our Asia Business Correspondent, Karishma Vaswani,  talks to three of the most dynamic players, operating in three of the biggest & fastest-growing business arenas in Asia. 

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