{"id":1026263,"date":"2026-08-05T07:59:45","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T02:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1026263"},"modified":"2026-08-05T08:33:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T03:03:35","slug":"singapores-grab-lifts-annual-forecasts-as-ai-incentives-drive-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/05\/singapores-grab-lifts-annual-forecasts-as-ai-incentives-drive-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Singapore&#8217;s Grab lifts annual forecasts as AI, incentives drive growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Singapore&#8217;s Grab raised its annual revenue and profit forecasts on Tuesday, encouraged by strong demand for its ride-hailing and delivery services driven by promotional offers, driver incentives and its AI initiatives. <\/p>\n<p>The upbeat projections and a new $750 million share buyback programme pushed shares of the Nasdaq-listed company up 4% \u200cin extended trading. <\/p>\n<p>Grab, \u2060the biggest \u2060ride-hailing and delivery firm in Southeast Asia, has banked on features including order bundling and a budget-friendly \u200btier called &#8220;Saver&#8221; to target cost-conscious customers grappling with higher fuel prices following the Iran war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singapore&#8217;s Grab raised its annual revenue and profit forecasts on Tuesday, encouraged by strong demand for its ride-hailing and delivery services driven by promotional offers, driver incentives and its AI initiatives. The upbeat projections and a new $750 million share buyback programme pushed shares of the Nasdaq-listed company up 4% \u200cin extended trading. Grab, \u2060the biggest \u2060ride-hailing and delivery firm in Southeast Asia, has banked on features including order bundling and a budget-friendly \u200btier called &#8220;Saver&#8221; to target cost-conscious customers grappling with higher fuel prices following the Iran war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1026263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1026263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1026290,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026263\/revisions\/1026290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}