{"id":34547,"date":"2019-03-07T17:22:12","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T17:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=34547"},"modified":"2019-03-07T17:22:12","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T17:22:12","slug":"why-uber-may-buy-its-big-rival-in-the-middle-east-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=34547","title":{"rendered":"Why Uber may buy its big rival in the Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Dubai (CNN Business)<\/cite>Uber may be close to spending billions of dollars to buy its big rival in the Middle East. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The company is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2019-02-28\/uber-is-said-to-be-in-advanced-talks-to-buy-mideast-rival-careem\" target=\"_blank\">reportedly in talks<\/a> to acquire Careem, a startup based in Dubai that has grown into the biggest ride-hailing app in the Middle East since it was founded in 2012. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Careem now has more than 30 million customers and its local knowledge and home-field advantage have made life tough for Uber since it entered the market in 2013. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dubai (CNN Business)Uber may be close to spending billions of dollars to buy its big rival in the Middle East. The company is reportedly in talks to acquire Careem, a startup based in Dubai that has grown into the biggest ride-hailing app in the Middle East since it was founded in 2012. Careem now has&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}