{"id":26844,"date":"2016-10-26T12:35:10","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T04:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=26844"},"modified":"2016-10-28T13:34:20","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T05:34:20","slug":"grabchat-launched-first-instant-messaging-feature-ride-hailing-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2016\/10\/26\/grabchat-launched-first-instant-messaging-feature-ride-hailing-app\/","title":{"rendered":"GrabChat launched as first instant messaging feature in ride-hailing app"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Grab has launched GrabChat, its new instant messaging platform within the Grab app, said to &#8220;ensure seamless communication&#8221; between a passenger\u00a0and a\u00a0driver. This feature can be enjoyed by updating the\u00a0Grab app.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/GrabChat.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26845\" src=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/GrabChat.jpg\" alt=\"grabchat\" width=\"622\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/GrabChat.jpg 622w, http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/GrabChat-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 622px) 100vw, 622px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With GrabChat, drivers can send templated messages. With just one tap, they can tell passengers\u00a0\u201c<em id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476458872699_429900\">I\u2019m 2 minutes away!<\/em>\u201d. It is also easier to gauge the\u00a0estimated time of pick up, help a\u00a0driver identify a passenger,\u00a0and be\u00a0en route to one&#8217;s\u00a0destination quickly. All conversations are deleted once the journey is completed.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0in-app communication is also free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grab has launched GrabChat, its new instant messaging platform within the Grab app, said to &#8220;ensure seamless communication&#8221; between a passenger and a driver. This feature can be enjoyed by updating the Grab app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":26845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,10,9,19],"tags":[3361,284,302,3999,4858,3359,303],"class_list":["post-26844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","category-ios","category-apps","category-headlines","tag-android","tag-app","tag-apps-2","tag-grab","tag-grabchat","tag-grabtaxi","tag-ios-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}