Khosro Kalbasi
Auto & Tech Desk
Khosro Kalbasi
Auto & Tech Desk
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February 11,2020Amid cries of Allah-o-Akbar, the Simorgh satellite launch vehicle blasted off from the Imam Khomeini Spaceport in central Iran, burning an afterimage into the spectators’ retinas. -
February 11,2020To evade the possibility of facing US penalties, South Korean tech titan Samsung has curbed Iranians’ access to some of its Galaxy Store services. Iran IT Organization reprimanded the South Korean...
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February 04,2020The Islamic Republic has initiated two projects to develop more advanced satellite launch vehicles, Iran Space Agency’s chief says. Morteza Barari also detailed the program in a talk with...
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January 31,2020A panel of experts convened in Qazvin, 143 kilometers west of Tehran, late January to shortlist candidates for Iran Web and Mobile Festival awards, the winners of which will be determined by...
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January 19,2020The University of Science and Technology handed over two locally-developed satellites Zafar1 and Zafar2 to the Iranian Space Agency on Sunday.
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December 28,2019Ever 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 Wide...
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December 17,2019To 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...
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December 10,2019On 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...
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October 30,2019Tehran is home to 105,758 disabled people and much needs to be done to make the Iranian capital disabled-friendly. Urban managers have launched initiatives to attain this goal.
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October 22,2019South Africa’s MTN, which has been prevented by US sanctions from repatriating profits from its Irancell partnership, is reinvesting its profits in Iran, the MTN-Irancell CEO said. Bijan Abbasi...
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October 20,2019Iran’s judiciary has issued an order calling on local internet service providers to block access to Google Play. Over the past few days, a scanned copy of the judicial order signed by Javad...
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October 16,2019Uber and Lyft are household names across the world, in the absence of which in Iran, two startups, Snapp and Tap30, set up online ridesharing platforms that have become vastly popular. From their...
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September 28,2019Over the past two days, CEOs of Iranian online taxi firms, government and municipality officials, as well as unionists have had a hectic time on Twitter clashing over the taxation of local...
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September 15,2019E-commerce accounts for 10.4% of Iran’s GDP with the market’s nominal value standing at 2.08 quadrillion rials ($18.4 billion), E-Commerce Development Center of Iran reports. The center has...
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August 30,2019Legal experts, former bankers and CEOs of Iranian startups converged at Khatam University in Tehran on Wednesday to help devise solutions to overcome regulatory hurdles facing local tech firms....
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August 26,2019Tehran Municipality took Iran E-Commerce Union to court on Monday over “illegally” issuing permits to local ride-hailing companies Snapp and Tap30. Mohammad Rahmani, the union’s lawyer, told Webna...
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August 17,2019Tehran Municipality has filed a lawsuit against Iran E-Commerce Union, arguing that the latter has illegally issued permits to online taxi firms like Snapp and Tap30, and demanding the revocation...
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July 27,2019Tehran Municipality intends to charge ride-hailing firms operating in the capital a 2% tax and the startups are fighting the idea tooth and nail. Mohsen Pourseyyed Aqaei, managing director of TM’s...
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July 26,2019US-based code repository GitHub has curbed access for users from Iran citing US sanctions against the country. Over the past 24 hours, Iran-based users of GitHub have been receiving emails from...
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July 21,2019The 25th International Exhibition of Electronics, Computers and e-Commerce (Elecomp 2019) wrapped up on Sunday with a flurry of activity and numerous photo ops for officials. Undaunted by Tehran’s...
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July 19,2019President Hassan Rouhani said the digital revolution has turned social media platforms into a barometer of a state’s legitimacy. The president made the statement at Smart Iran Summit held at Iran’...
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July 16,2019From Silicon Valley to Tehran, tech titans and startups have regularly reported stories of gender inequality, harassment and abuse of power. Taking a stance against such issues, Iran’s IT...
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July 10,2019Demand for vehicles in the past four months has increased sixfold than the projected annual output of local car companies for the fiscal 2019-20, Iran’s industries minister says. “Since the...
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June 26,2019With online platforms being barred from listing vehicle prices and extensive disruptions in the supply chain, the Iranian car market slid further into a murky state of disorder. It has been a...
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June 23,2019With the Iranian economy in shambles and the shadow of war looming on the horizon, a large segment of the young workforce employed in the Iranian startup ecosystem is mulling emigration. The...
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