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Ride-hailing giant Grab aims to double its revenue in 2019

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Bloomberg Singapore’s Grab outlined ambitious fundraising plans and predicted that sales will double next year, adding to evidence that Southeast Asia’s most valuable startup is expanding well beyond its roots as a ride-haling app while intensifying a rivalry with Indonesia’s Go-Jek. Revenue will double to $2 billion in 2019 as it integrates the acquisition of Uber Technologies Inc.’s regional business ...

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India’s Reliance shaking off past decade’s slumber

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Bloomberg Reliance Industries Ltd.’s recent gains are helping one of India’s most-valuable companies catch up with the benchmark index, which it had trailed for much of the past decade. At close of trading this week, the company’s shares had surged 135 percent since it launched telecom services in 2016, nearly four times the advance in the S&P BSE Sensex, making ...

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S’pore to monitor risks of cybersecurity breaches

Bloomberg Singapore will continue monitoring risks of cybersecurity breaches and data hacks as those threats won’t go away, a senior government official said. Risks need to be managed but won’t prevent the government from building the city state into a technology-advanced one under its “Smart Nation” plan, Janil Puthucheary, senior minister of state for communications and information, said at Bloomberg’s ...

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