Thailand food delivery app Robinhood is now expanding its services into four key areas including supermarket, delivery, transportation and travel, in line with its plans to become a super-app. This includes Robinhood Mart, a supermarket and store shopping service, Robinhood Express, a goods delivery service, Robinhood Ride, a transportation platform, and Robinhood Travel, an online travel agent.
The people selling mobile apps had a tough 2022, with privacy changes heading the list of challenges. Liftoff reports they’re evenly balanced between positive outlook (37%) and negative outlook (36%) for next year, with gaming marketers much more worried than the rest. Interestingly, solid majorities say privacy changes are bad for marketers (54%) but good for consumers (59%). At least they’re honest.
Singaporean multinational ride-hailing and food delivery company, Grab, has plans to execute cost-cutting measures to weather through undetermined economic situation, according to a new memo sent to employees. On a similar note, Grab Indonesia this month decided to discontinue its cloud services.
Microsoft has confirmed that Reddit has blocked its Bing search engine from crawling content; Reddit seems to have blocked DuckDuckGo too. Reddit content will still appear in Google search results, but then Google has paid Reddit $60 million to allow it to train its AI models on that content. Reddit says the block has nothing to do with the Google deal: okay.