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Saudi Railway Company, also known as SAR, has agreed with ride-hailing platform Careem to offer passengers additional transportation services after they arrive at its stations, reports say. The joint venture aims to make it easier and for passengers to travel Read more
Chinese ride hailing app Didi will start operating in Egypt next week from the city of Alexandria with expansion to other cities in the plan. The company, reports say, is in the process of hiring drivers, with promises not to Read more
U.S-based ride-hailing company, Uber, has named Saad Pall, new General Manager (GM) of the company in the Middle East and North Africa as well as Pakistan. Pall, per the company’s decision, will oversee the company’s operations in 36 cities across Read more
UK-based UVA, ridesharing app, will start operating in Egypt from June to compete with Uber which dominates the market. The British company, Arab Finance citing Al Masry Al Youm will start activities with 3,000 drivers in capital Cairo and Giza. Read more
Popular British radio presenter, Gavin Ford of Radio One, has been found dead in his apartment in Beirut with police handling the case as a homicide, reports say. The widely known anchor who gained fame with his show “Gavin Ford Read more
A horde of leaders of multinational media and giant companies have expressed their intentions to stay away from a major investment conference to be held in Saudi Arabia later this month. The decision comes following the mysterious disappearance of Jamal Read more
Lebanese Security authorities have identified the alleged murderer of Rebecca Dykes as Tariq H., a Lebanese working for Uber company. Arrested on Monday, Tariq H. confessed to the Lebanese Internal Security Forces (ISF) to have killed the British diplomat positioned Read more
The San Francisco-based company announced Tuesday it will start recruiting women as drivers to take advantage of authorities’ decision to allow women to sit behind the wheel. The company’s Middle East, Europe and Africa head of operations, Pierre-Dimitri Gore-Coty on Read more
Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund (PIF,) the oil-rich kingdom’s long-term sovereign investment arm, has pumped $3.5 billion into Uber and will henceforth occupy a seat as a member of the Board of Directors. The amount is the highest solitary amount Read more