Grab Suffers Hours-Long App Outage Ahead of Landmark SPAC Debut
- Ride-hailing, delivery services affected across Southeast Asia
- Singapore company set to merge with U.S. firm Altimeter Growth
Grab riders in Kuala Lumpur.
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Grab Holdings Inc., Southeast Asia’s ride-hailing and delivery giant, malfunctioned for hours across much of the region on Tuesday, an embarrassing outage that comes just before the startup is slated to go public in one of the largest SPAC mergers.
Though Grab said late in the day that it had restored “core services,” users in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines were still reporting problems using the app as of Tuesday evening. Disruptions emerged early Tuesday morning.