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Rideshare competing with Uber in the Midde East region.
Careem is a rideshare company based out of Dubai, UAE. Careem was first established in 2012 as a website based service for corporate car transfers. Since then, Careem has evolved into an everday rideshare company for the general public. Through the Careem app, you can hail a variety of cars to suit your needs from sedans, SUVs, and luxury vehicles. Careem even has services for families with young children. Careem operates in 53 cities across the Middle East, North Africa and Pakistan. They accept both Cash and Credit for payments and allow users to book rides on demand or in advance.
Available in Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Oman, Pakistan, Palestinian Territory, Occupied, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and United Arab Emirates.
Here's the full city listing: https://www.careem.com/en-ae/cities/
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I used to travel in careem when I go to dubai for business visit and there is been a lot of updates on careem adding the packages for corporate customers and integrating with the dubai government taxi. Any one who wish to start a uber like app business model should not just look for a short term plan or taking a ready made uber clone app because with that you cannot scale up your business. Apart from taking a product from clone companies you need to check with them the following services.
1] Long term support and dedicated team to expand in the furure
2] Does they provide devops consulting services ?
3] Do they have a NOC team to monitor the traffic ?
4] Does the team have an extensive knowledge of proper 3 tier architecture ?