Iran's second technology center will be inaugurated on May 18, said the head of Iran's Innovation and Prosperity Fund.
Behzad Soltani added that the second technology center, affiliated to…
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South Africa’s SALT telescope has helped detect the first white dwarf pulsar, the latest co-discovery that has astronomers eager to use the largest optical telescope in the southern hemisphere to…
Online food ordering has become a multimillion dollar industry globally, so much so that this has literally upended the traditional delivery model to the detriment of small players in the market…
Beyond being the founder of Sci-Hub, the world’s largest pirate site for academic papers, and risking arrest as a result, Alexandra Elbakyan is a typical science graduate student: idealistic, hard…
New Zealand will launch a new visa to attract technology entrepreneurs as it tries to offset its struggling dairy industry, though it may struggle to beat Australia in the race to become the…
The second meeting of investment firms with local technology firm Afranet was recently held at a business forum in the capital Tehran.
In the meeting held with senior managers of domestic…
Following changes in Iran's information and communications technology marketin the last Iranian year (ended March 19, 2016), the Communications Regulatory Authority announced plans to streamline…
Iran's first-ever social enterprise hub has shut down after one of its main sponsors pulled the plug on funding, according to one of the founders.
A social enterprise…
Supercell has joined the club of foreign game developers to accept the Iranian currency rial, at least for its flagship title Clash of Clans.
"The mobile gaming giant struck a deal on March…
As South African President Jacob Zuma concluded a two-day visit aimed at bolstering trade relations with Iran, MTN, Irancell's part owner, said it would repatriate 15 billion South African rand ($…
Augmedix Inc, a startup that uses Alphabet Inc's Google Glass to provide documentation services to doctors and other healthcare workers, said on Monday it had closed a $17 million funding round…
In a complete accident, while working to find a solid-state replacement for lithium, researchers at University of California Irvine inadvertently stumbled upon a breakthrough that could change how…
An Iranian researcher has devised a method to convert agricultural wastes into biofuel and won the 29th Khwarizmi International Award. Project manager Mohammad Jafar Taherzadeh, who ranked…
Iran will build a center for the production of stable isotopes at the Fordow facility in two years, Russia’s representative at the International Atomic Energy Agency said.
Tens and thousands of mobile phone photographers, otherwise known as Instagrammers, went out over the past weekend (April 22-24) to photograph their surroundings.
A shipment of 32,000 smuggled mobile phones was seized in the province of Bushehr in southern Iran.
According to Abbas Nakhaei, an official at the Central Taskforce to Combat the…
Microsoft reported results that fell short of analysts' expectations, showing its high-profile cloud business cannot quite make up for a slowing personal-computer market.
Iran's first operator, Hamrah-e Aval, otherwise known as Mobile Communications Company of Iran, has released its annual report on subscribers for the last Iranian year (ended March 19, 2016).…
The Fourth Laboratory Equipment & Chemicals Exhibition, known as Iran Lab 2016, will display laboratory equipment made by domestic and foreign companies.
Sorena Sattari, presidential…
The Iranian vice president for science and technology has inaugurated the first export-oriented production line of a knowledge-based company. Sorena Sattari opened the production line of an…
Researcher Masoud Mozaffari discusses how Iran's scientific research sector will thrive after the complete removal of sanctions.
Iran is to host the Second International Crop Science Conference in the northern city of Rasht in the coming days. Organized by the Crop Science Society of Iran, the event will be held from August…
A UK supermarket predicts contactless payments via mobile phones will outstrip cash within a decade.
The Co-operative Food said customers currently used cash for almost two-thirds (65%) of…
Europe's biggest dedicated online fashion retailer Zalando saw sales growth slow in the first quarter after a blistering 2015, but said it accelerated again since the Easter holidays in late March…
To counter the threat from international ride-sharing apps, Tehran's taxi organization has announced it will develop an app to help people call for a taxi virtually.
