Sci & Tech

Iranian knowledge-based companies and tech firms have earned 1 quadrillion rials ($7.4 billion) from the export of technological products in the first half of the current Iranian year (started…

Food delivery company Chilivery is in investment talks with Iran’s major e-commerce platform Digikala.

Iranian cloud service provider Arvan Cloud has set up a platform that helps monitor the availability of internet services in the country. For generating real-time reports, Arvan Cloud gathers…

The Central Bank of Iran and Post Bank of Iran, affiliated to ICT Ministry, will invest 2 trillion rials ($14.8 million) in the domestic production of smartphones to curb dependence on foreign…

Iranian tech firms signed 12 agreements worth 3.21 trillion rials ($24.3 million) with state institutions during the Second Testa Reverse Exhibition held at Tehran's International Fairground in…

Two tech firms at South Khorasan Province's Technology Park have signed 10 agreements with local executive offices and organizations, collectively worth 95 billion rials ($720,000). The deals…

Major Iranian video streaming services and the state-run broadcaster IRIB have reached a preliminary agreement over regulating the distribution of multimedia content on the web. The initial…

Ever since the weeklong internet shutdown in mid-November, any disruption in communication services alerts citizens and human rights activists to the possibility of losing access to the World…

Two major Iranian food delivery companies, Chilivery and Reyhoon, have recently signed a merger and acquisition deal. The new company will offer services under the brand name Chilivery. The M…

Following marathon talks between Takhfifan and NetBarg, major Iranian e-commerce platforms, have forged a merger and acquisition deal. Both startups offer products and services at significantly…

Managers of Post Bank of Iran should put greater focus on promoting smart banking and digital economy by involving fintechs and startups, Information and Communication Technologies Minister…

Officials from Iran’s ICT Ministry met with their counterparts from Turkey on Tuesday to discuss expansion of collaborations in the fields of communications. A joint committee has been…

In a new push to enrich the technology ecosystem in provinces, Iran’s private sector is to finance the establishment of an innovation factory in the western province of Lorestan.  The…

In line with Iran's policies to expand its international scientific and technological ties, ICT Minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi attended the Kuala Lumpur Summit 2019 on Thursday and…

To increase the popularity and application of Iran’s national intranet, the Supreme Council of Cyberspace has charged the Information and Communication Technologies Ministry with the task of…

About 30% of short-term agreements signed between knowledge-based companies and industries since March 2018 have grown into long-term contracts worth 27.8 trillion rials ($214.4 million), the…

Space Exploration Technologies Corp., doing business as SpaceX, fired up a twice-used Falcon 9 rocket, setting the stage for the launch of a hefty next communications satellite into space this…

An Iranian delegation attended a business forum held in the Uzbek capital city Tashkent late last week, discussing ways of expanding ties in different fields, including technology.

An innovation support fund has been jointly established in the western province of Lorestan by the province's Science and Technology Park and the state-backed Iran National Innovation Fund.

The Iranian media group Donya-e-Eqtesad gathered e-commerce stakeholders for a conference in Tehran on Wednesday to boost the country’s startup ecosystem. The media conglomerate is committed to…

The Central Bank of Iran has offered 70 trillion rials ($500 million) in loans since the beginning of the current Iranian year (March 21) to help emerging startups and knowledge-based companies…

On Monday, Tehran Municipality gathered urbanists, tech aficionados and communication policymakers for a two-day event dubbed Smart Tehran Confab that was certainly not smart, as what was…

The 3rd Smart Tehran Congress, which kicked off at Tehran’s Milad Tower on Monday, was attended by policymakers, urban managers and tech aficionados.

Iran's private and public aviation firms and agencies signed 163 agreements worth 6 trillion rials ($46.15 million) with local knowledge-based companies and startups during a two-day technology…

The Third Smart Tehran Congress is to kick off at the iconic Milad Tower in Tehran on Monday.  The two-day event is to gather urban managers, ICT policymakers and tech experts.