Billion-dollar on-demand taxi service GrabTaxi has decided to open its first office in Seattle, United States.
The new technology centre will work on cloud computing and data projects to support the smartphone app its customers use to hail rides in a car or motorbike, GrabTaxi said.
The company that rivals Uber in South East Asia, said it hired Raman Narayanan, a former Microsoft engineer, as technical adviser to the centre and to lead recruitment efforts, Reuters reported.
Headquartered in Singapore, GrabTaxi is an automated smartphone based booking and dispatch platform for the taxi industry in Southeast Asia, available in Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia and the Philippines.