As Iran moves away from biting western sanctions in 2016, international corporations are beginning to take note of the country's potentials in driving their profits.
Several international…
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Former mobile phone maker Nokia is cutting 1,032 jobs in its main base in Finland, as part of a cost-cutting program following its acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent, the telecom network equipment…
Iranian researchers have identified 45 oil-eating microscopic life forms that thrive in salt lakes and other high-salt environments in Iran.
The number of high-speed Internet ports has seen a 41-fold increase over the past six years, with 4.8 million ADSL users in Iran, a deputy of the Telecommunications Company of Iran said.
An experimental airplane powered solely by energy from the sun landed in Ohio on Saturday night on the latest leg of its historic bid by pilots and developers to fly around the globe without a…
Samsung Electronics said it had struck a deal with Alibaba Group Holding for owners of its phones to be able to more easily make payments with Alipay accounts—a move it hopes will boost sales in…
A new website to book domestic flights has been launched with the express permission of Iran's related authorities.
Iran's largest mobile provider Mobile Communications Company of Iran (MCI or Hamrah-e-Avval) has announced it will be offering free WiFi to select sites around Jamkaran Mosque in the city of Qom…
InfoWatch, a company owned by Natalya Kasperskaya, the former wife of Russian cyber security guru, Evgeny Kaspersky, has developed a solution for monitoring employees’ mobile phone conversations…
The second-biggest cosmetics market in the Middle East, after Saudi Arabia, Iran was grossing $3.5 billion in 2014, a figure that did not include perfumes.
As the country gradually opens…
A Pakistani-based online property group has purchased a local listings website, according to reports from Iran's eastern neighbor.
Iran is about to give its Internet users better speed, as it boosts capacity with the help of a northern neighbor.
Barat Qanbari, deputy minister for communications and information…
The BBC will remove more than 11,000 recipes from its website, as part of a review of its online content. According to the Press Association, the move is part of a cost-cutting move to save £15…
A new locally-developed weather app targeting Persian language users has hit the Iranian market. Called Havashenas (Meteorolgist), the app intends to fill the gap of accessing local weather and…
Revised landline telephone tariffs will be announced in a month, said the minister of communications and information technology.
Mahmoud Vaezi also told a press conference on Sunday that…
Google has again removed the recently opened analytics service to Iranian Internet users, according to several Twitter users on May 17.
In response to Financial Tribune's query regarding…
The names of mobile virtual network operators will likely be announced at the Iran Telecom Conference at Kish on May 25. Twenty firms had applied for the license to extend the service, but names…
The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology has outlined plans for developing content production and promoting value added services based on the Resistance Economy's agenda.
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Iran's mobile operators Mobile Telecommunications Company of Iran (MCI or Hamrah-e-Aval), MTN Irancell and RighTel have announced that trials have been conducted and the companies are ready to…
Google Analytics, a service provided by the search giant to help track metrics on a website, is now available in the Islamic Republic for the first time.
The issue of Google banning many…
Coinciding with the First Architecture Biennial in Tehran, a new application named Peeyade (meaning pedestrian in Persian) was launched on Friday.
Launched at the House of Urban Art and…
Apple Inc. said on Thursday it has invested $1 billion in Chinese ride-hailing service Didi Chuxing, a move that Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook said would help the company better understand the…
With nearly 80 million people in Iran and a huge Internet community waiting to be pounced upon, lack of data posed a problem to analysts and planners, up until now.
MTN-Irancell, Iran's second largest mobile network in terms of subscribers, has announced it has begun testing Internet Protocol Version 6 or IPv6, to enable Internet of Things connectivity.
LG Group plans to work on an electric vehicle specifically for the Iranian market. The company recently signed a preliminary agreement with the Iranian government in this regard, Korea's Chosun…
