According to Iran Customs, the value of imported cellular handset into the country amounted to 342 million U.S. dollars in the past 10 months. It
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
A new study shows that 53.2% of the Iranian students in the US in 2016/2017 were enrolled in the engineering fields. The return of these
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
This is Part Two which was written and published 20 months ago. Part One can be found here. The Iranian will publish Part Three soon.
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
Well, nobody saw this coming. Dara Khosrowshahi, the CEO of Expedia Inc. is reported to be Uber’s next chief executive, taking the helm of the
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
A few months ago political commentator and writer Keith Olbermann used Donald Trump’s own words and actions to score the president on a sanity test. The results? Well,
Entrepreneur Shahrzad Rafati has been named a winner of the 2017 RBC Top 25 Canadian Immigrant Award. The RBC Top 25 Canadian Immigrants is a
We are all interested in language, because it defines us as a species and presents us with many interesting questions about origins, reasons for multiplicity
“Knowledge is power. Information is liberating.” – Kofi Annan Technology and innovation are celebrated in the United States like no other country in the world.
I wish to inform the fellow Iranians that I have decided to run in the next Presidential elections in Iran as an independent candidate. As
