Iran’s largest Android app market, Café Bazaar, released a report at the weekend saying that there are 7,000 active application developing teams in the country and 20,700 people work for the…
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A Belgian court threatened Facebook (FB.O) on Friday with a fine of up to €100 million ($125 million) if it continued to break privacy laws by tracking people on third-party websites.
Filmtabdil is a local startup which converts old films and cassette tapes into digital format to help save family memories from deterioration in a rapidly changing digital world.
As hard currency prices continue on the skyward trajectory in Tehran market the price of computer devices do not want to be left behind. Head of Tehran IT Union says that the prices have shot up…
A potentially serious new bug has been detected which can affect a wide range of Apple devices. Software engineers at Aloha Browser discovered two Unicode symbols in a non-English language that…
Europe’s justice commissioner told Facebook, Twitter and Google to do more to bring their user terms in line with EU law, ramping up pressure on the tech giants after their efforts were deemed…
A university student named David Nadlinger has won the top prize in a science photography contest held by UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council after capturing a photo of a…
In line with a recent push to regulate Value Added Services (VAS) delivered via text messages in Iran, the Communication Regulatory Authority has issued a mandate requiring mobile phone…
International Business Machines Corp sued its former executive Lindsay-Rae McIntyre, who was named Microsoft Corp’s new chief diversity officer over the weekend, alleging violation of a one-year…
A local startup Borsipa has launched an online service for selling, donating and exchanging new and second-hand books.
Operating through borsipa.com, for using the services people need…
With mom, dad and grandma signing up in increasing numbers, Facebook is losing younger users in the United States at a faster pace than previously estimated, researchers said Monday.
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Bitcoin and other digital currencies have, so far, not been formidable competition for cash, checks or credit cards as a payment method in the United States and other major economies, according…
You can now download and read ebooks for free when taking a ride on the Tehran subway. Startup and major ebook publisher Fidibo has launched a new service, providing commuters with free but…
A portion of iOS source code has been posted online to GitHub, and in an interesting twist, a new report from Motherboard reveals that the code was originally leaked by a former Apple intern.
A new startup has started operating in Tehran named Washlin that offers on-demand laundry and dry-cleaning services.
It operates through the website washlin.com, an Android app available…
Android 7.0 Nougat has become the most-used version of the mobile operating system, running on 28.5% of devices, according to an update on Google’s developer portal. That number narrowly edges…
Canadian social media management platform Hootsuite and UK-based marketing and advertising agency We Are Social has released their 2018 Global Digital report, according to which the number of…
Tech insiders are rallying against the companies and products they helped create. Former employees at companies such as Google and Facebook are pushing for tech companies to rethink and redesign…
This week, after years of delay, SpaceX founder and tech mogul Elon Musk hopes to finally launch Falcon Heavy: the most powerful operational rocket in the world.
Instagram hit 24 million active users in Iran in January, making the country the seventh biggest market for the photo-sharing app.
Iran has 80 million people, which means that 30% of the…
A year after its tiny, experimental rocket failed to reach orbit a year ago, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) successfully launched an experimental rocket into orbit this weekend…
Telecommunication Company of Iran has signed two agreements with local Internet service providers Shatel and HiWeb according to which the state-owned company will share its networks with the two…
Male rats exposed to very high levels of the kind of radiation emitted by cellphones developed tumors in the tissues around their hearts, according to a draft report by US government researchers…
A long-awaited updated for popular messaging application Telegram has been released and the app is now available in Persian.
In October 2017 Telegram’s team added five new languages to…
The main Iranian mobile operator Mobile Telecommunication Company of Iran (MCI) reported Thursday that it has expanded its 3G and 4G network and now has coverage in all 1,246 Iranian cities. The…
