In the past weeks, Iranian authorities have warned users to migrate to local messaging apps as Telegram might soon get blocked in the country. While...
The Minister of ICT, Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi, participated in the first online press conference. This conference was live to watch on Aparat, and had...
Iranian women are topping the charts with the highest number of female scientists in the world, far surpassing their western counterparts with over half of...
At the height of this winter's protest movement in Iran, there was a temporary ban on the Telegram messaging app, alongside the other popular foreign social...
A statement I occasionally hear from people who are investigating the startup ecosystem in Iran is that we don’t have innovative startups, or that most of the...
There are sectors in the Iranian startup ecosystem that are seized by specific companies. What’s the reason? Are they really better and more experienced in...
According to Iran’s Deputy Minister of ICT, the ministry is ready to collaborate with the Central Bank of Iran and the National Informatics Corporation to...
When uber-warmonger regime change cheerleader Thomas Friedman gets on the Iran water crisis bandwagon you know for sure something toxic is brewing in the backroom. This is...
According to Mehr News, until the 22nd of this January the Iran National Center for Cyberspace has counted more than 754 thousand and 516 Persian channels on...
An interview with Fereshteh Forough, Founder & CEO of Code to Inspire -- a nonprofit committed to teaching female students in Afghanistan how to code....
According to latest statistics by IRNIC, active top-level .IR domains have reached to over 940 thousand. The number of active .IR domains in the past...
Yesterday Telegram and Instagram, the two most popular social media apps in Iran got blocked in the country. Are these restrictions temporary? Read this article...
The Telegram messaging app, by far the most popular messaging service in Iran, has closed an anti-Iran channel at the request of an Iranian official....
Iran is one of the leading cyberspace adversaries of the United States. It emerged as a cyberthreat a few years later than Russia and China and has so far...
Israel's vibrant tech scene is once again causing headaches for Iranian entrepreneurs and consumers. Iran has once again blocked Waze, a mobile navigation app developed in...
For the past several months most Iranians have been caught up in a “wait-and-see” collective mindset. Below the surface, in the murky shadows, movement can...
When hackers attacked the Instagram account of popular Iranian musician Shahin Najafi, they replaced Shahin’s profile picture with the flag of the Islamic Republic of...
Prosecutors in Tehran have filed charges against Pavel Durov, the CEO of the popular messaging app Telegram. The authorities allege that the app is spreading...
Iranian-American entrepreneur Falon Fatemi has raised $16.3M from investors such as Mark Cuban, Avalon Ventures, and Canaan Partners for her startup Node. Her startup, which she founded...
On July 14, Maryam Mirzakhani, Stanford professor of mathematics and the only female winner of the prestigious Fields Medal in Mathematics, died at the age...
