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Is It Farewell, Uber?

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Oh my goodness! In an undoubtedly surprising turn of events (seriously hoping this isn't happening), Grab and Uber, two of the biggest car-booking apps in the world, are close to signing a deal that would result in the US company withdrawing in the Southeast Asian market and sell its regional operations to their Singapore rival in return for a more than 20 per cent stake in Grab. Fellow Rizal and Metro Manila commuters, apparently the move has been reported to be under discussion for months and comes in just weeks after Japanese technology conglomerate SoftBank, Uber’s biggest investor called on the Silicon Valley company to focus on core markets. SoftBank also holds stakes in other ridesharing companies worldwide like Singapore's Grab, China's Didi, and India’s Ola.</div>
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The deal will be like the agreement that Uber struck with their fierce competitor Chinese ridesharing company Didi Chuxing back in 2016, when the former sold its China operations to Didi in exchange for a 20 percent stake in the company. </div>
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The agreement will put an end to a lengthy and onerous battle for dominion in the Southeast Asian ridesharing industry, which is undoubtedly one of the fastest-growing markets in the world (as of yet) and home to over 600 million people. For Uber, this is an opportunity to sort out their financial problems and boost profits in anticipation of its planned initial public offering (IPO) set next year. It has been reported that the company has spent over $10 billion since it was founded in 2009.</div>
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Grab  is presently valued at $6 billion, currently has operations in 178 cities all over Southeast Asia and its mobile app has been downloaded over 80 million times. When Uber goes, it will be the only ridesharing app available to us for booking cars. The Singapore-based company was founded in 2012 and has expanded aggressively across the region, operating in eight countries. Alongside car-booking, it has also launched a mobile payments platform called GrabPay which is designed for markets with under-developed banking. I'm quite fond of their delivery service called GrabExpress which I frequent for shipping and receiving fragile items on the same day. I only have good things to say about it, so far.</div>
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With Uber’s impending departure from the Southeast Asian car-booking scene, a couple of important questions arise, like, what does this mean for the ridesharing economy in our country? And how would their exit affect the livelihood of thousands of existing Uber drivers (I know a handful of them personally) in the Philippines? I hope this all ends well for all parties involved including the commuters.</div>
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The deal is expected to be finalised later this month and was first reported by Bloomberg. You can check out the article <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-08/grab-is-said-to-close-to-deal-for-uber-southeast-asia-business" rel="nofollow">here</a>. Will it push through? Are we really bidding farewell to Uber?</div>
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Grab refused to comment and Uber did not immediately respond to requests for comments either. We'll just have to wait and see.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Browsing through my Facebook news feeds is usually for checking out the latest on health, parenting, current events around the globe and updates on my friends for about 20 minutes and then moving on to other things. The other day's routine check however, made me pause for a bit on a specific article concerning a favorite hollywood actor comedian of mine, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000245/">Robin Williams</a>. He was found dead at his home in California, at the age of 63 and it looks like he took his own life, which brought about this post.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Who  doesn't know the man who won Best Supporting Actor in <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119217/?ref_=nm_knf_t1">Goodwill Hunting</a>  and was voted "Funniest Man Alive" by Entertainment Weekly in 1997? His  God-given talent of making people laugh so hard they pee their pants was  a very welcome gift he shared with millions.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He touched our hearts by bringing to life characters such as the loveable Genie, Patch Adams, Jack, Sean Maguire, Popeye our Spinach eating hero, Mork, John Keating, the Peter Pan who grew up in Hook, the hilarious Dr. Kosevich in Nine Months, Alan Parrish in Jumanji, and Professor Philip Brainard who made Flubber, to name a few. He has proven his dramatic acting skills throughout his career but is mostly known for his wild comic talent involving a great deal of improvising on his part. And when I say a great deal of improvisations, it means just that. Did you know that during the course of recording the voice of Genie in Aladdin, he improvised so much they had almost 16 hours of material? And that he also ad-libbed so many of his lines in the movie that the script was  turned down for a Best Adapted Screenplay Academy Award nomination? Well, that's how it went.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Comedy bars (of the present) are one of those things that scare the wits out of me. From what I have seen from Youtube and heard from my friends who frequent them, I can confidently say that I will never grace one with my presence. Now if it was Robin Williams taking the stage, that would be a different matter altogether. I would be first in line for sure. In my opinion, h</span><span style="font-size: small;">e was one of the best comedians who have ever lived. Did you know he was frequently called up by <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000229/">Steven Spielberg</a> when he was filming the <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108052/?ref_=nm_knf_t2">Schindler's List</a> in 1993 and  was put on speaker phone, so he could tell jokes to the cast and crew to  cheer them up using his Genie in Aladdin character most of the time? He was something special alright!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">For the longest time, during my younger years, I only knew him as <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107614/">Mrs. Doubtfire</a> in the movie. For me, it was the one movie that really left its mark on me, with the unique plot (at the time) and his funny over the top antics. It was the only Robin Williams movie that I watched with my family as a child which made it all the more special to me. I remember laughing the whole time I was watching it, with my parents and both siblings one night. It's definitely a classic in my book, a comedy that you can watch repeatedly but still laugh at the same jokes and scenes as if it's always the first time. </span><span style="font-size: small;">When he died, he took with him the laughs that I know so well and love so much.</span></span></div>
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<br /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This is just like <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1006879/">Dolphy</a> all over again, another legend exits the stage of comedy, and the lights turn off. Thank you for the laughs Robin!</span></span></div>
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