Sci & Tech

<p>Read the latest news about Iran's technology industries, from startups, mobile networks, innovative companies and e-commerce.</p>

  • An automotive official has rejected the claims of four ministers who recently said 100,000 vehicles have been stockpiled due to low demand.

    According to Mohammad Reza Najafimanesh, a member…

  • The Prosecutor General’s Office has said it is raising the issue of filtering Telegram Messenger over security issues.

    News of the impending review comes after a recent comment by that…

  • This week Russian search engine giant, Yandex, announced it will expand operations into the Iranian market.

    However, on Tuesday, a representative from the company said it had no plans to…

  • Toyota's premier hybrid vehicle has made its way to Iran for promotional purposes, according to a new report from a local automotive website.

    Persian Khodro reports, IrToya, Toyota's…

  • Less than a year ago, two bright minds in their early twenties saw a gap in Iran's handmade craft business and set out to fill it.

    To help promote indepe ndent artists and market their…

  • Global tech companies are reportedly interested in working in Iran post sanctions, according to a government official.

    Rouhollah Estiri, director of Technology Development in the…

  • Toyota has regained its global sales lead over the VW group, as its German competitor struggles with the fallout of the emissions rigging scandal across multiple jurisdictions.  The company…

  • If the government intends to stimulate demand within the auto sector, it should better provide buyers with subsidies and loans instead of funding the automakers, said economist Saeed Laylaz.

  • Vehicle production at Iran Khodro Company, Iran's largest auto manufacturing company, has slumped below 1,000 units a day.

    During the month ending May 21, the company would produce nearly 2…

  • Iran’s National Day of Nanotechnology will be held in China next week to introduce Iranian nanotech products to Chinese industries, Iran Nanotechnology Initiative Council Secretary Saeed Sarkar…

  • Iranian researchers from University of Maragheh have produced a nanodrug for targeted delivery that increases therapeutic effects and causes fewer side effects.

    By using the conventional…

  • BLOCKS, the modular watch startup launched by UK-based graduates, has officially surpassed the $1 million mark on their Kickstarter page.

  • Iran will be dispatching eight companies to next year's CeBIT technology festival in the German city of Hannover scheduled for March 14 to 18. With support from the Ministry of Science, Research…

  • Usually we give a rundown of what has been searched over an Iranian month; in this case we're at the end of the Iranian month of Mehr (Sept. 23-Oct.22). But this month we are going to be casting…

  • General Motors' Opel division denied violating European pollution standards after green activists claimed the automaker's Zafira minivan had excessive NOx emissions.

  • Toshiba is preparing to sell its image sensor operations to Sony in a deal estimated at around $165 million, reports said Saturday. The reported deal could include sales of production facilities…

  • One Planet Ops Inc., a US-based hybrid firm combining operating technology companies, angel fund and a startup business incubator, has been launched in California.

  • Sweden’s biggest bus producer Scania AB wants to invest in Iran when economic sanctions are lifted. “We are ready,” Scania spokesman Hans-Aake Danielsson said by phone on Wednesday.

  • Digital companies in Iran are carving out a space in the local market in spite of restrictions on foreign trade imposed by western sanctions.  

    What they do not seem very good at,…

  • Iran recently hosted executives from the global computer technology corporation Oracle, said a member of the Executive Board of Information Technology Organization of Iran.

  • The first marathon of producing Iran’s digital content hosted by Sharif University of Technology will be held in late November, according to a new press release.

  • Samsung Electronics Company plans to bring forward the unveiling of its next Galaxy S smartphone to January to compete better with rival Apple Inc’s new iPhones, South Korea’s Electronic Times…

  • The UK economy could receive a boost of more than £90 billion ($139 billion) if companies fully develop their digital potential, a new report claims.

  • Local technological products will officially begin to replace foreign counterparts, according to a new announcement by a tech official.

    Mehdi Karimi Neysani, planning and development deputy…

  • Tehran hosted the first symposium of knowledge-based firms and innovation.

    Over 1,000 authorities and activists from knowledge-based firms participated in the symposium that opened on…