Qaym

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Qaym
Company type Private
IndustryBusiness ratings and reviews
FoundedJan 2006
Headquarters Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Key people
Jihad Alammar, Founder/CEO, Ziyad Alghannam, Co-Founder
Productsqaym.com
Number of employees
7+ [1]
Website www.qaym.com

Qaym is an Arabic-language review site specialized at user-based reviews on restaurants around the world. It started as a review site mainly for restaurants in the Arabian region. The website runs a social networking, user review, and local search using the second generation of web Web 2.0. The website is aimed to deliver good restaurant reviews and easy access contents for Arab readers.

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History

API

Applications

Publicity

April Fools

On April 1, 2009, Qaym has featured an April Fools prank on the site. The site was totally revamped as if its going to be Camels reviewing social network. [18]

Footnotes

  1. "مجلة قيم".
  2. Qaym on Badir ICT website "Badir - Clients & Members". Archived from the original on April 2, 2012. Retrieved September 11, 2011.
  3. N2V Announcing Qaym Deal "N2V Invests in Qaym.com | National Net Ventures – English". Archived from the original on September 14, 2011. Retrieved September 11, 2011.
  4. "N2V Invests in Restaurants Review Site Qaym.com - ArabCrunch". Archived from the original on August 2, 2015. Retrieved September 11, 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  5. "Readyreseach". Archived from the original on December 14, 2019. Retrieved December 18, 2019. Wednesday, 18 December 2019
  6. "Qaym Launches Improved Design, To Make Critical Decisions in The Coming Weeks - ArabCrunch". Archived from the original on October 27, 2016. Retrieved September 11, 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  7. http://api.qaym.com%5B%5D
  8. Qaym iPhone App https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id460210125?mt=8 /Qaym App
  9. Qaym-API-Class Resources by Ahmad Salman https://github.com/ahmads/Qaym-API-Class
  10. Ahmad Salman Website http://as.sa/ Archived April 2, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  11. Ahmad Salman Announcing QaymRoulette on Twitter https://twitter.com/a7mads/status/106831979605012480
  12. Resriod on ArabCrunch http://arabcrunch.com/2010/08/restdroid-social-restaurants-review-site-qaym-gets-its-android-app.html Archived September 3, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  13. Devdriod website http://devdroid.org/ Archived October 18, 2018, at the Wayback Machine
  14. A citizen establishes an electronic website to evaluate the performance of the capital’s restaurants 2 April 2009
  15. Al-Ammar: Qayyim has 1,400 branches of 600 restaurants in 100 cities around the world Al Riyadh. 3 April 2009.
  16. Qaym is the New Yelp of Arabia [usurped] TechCrunch. July 2010.
  17. Join Zawya Business Development & Solutions, Latest Intelligence on Industry Zawya
  18. Update to Qaym’s Camels Post, We’ve been Fooled! [usurped]

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