Yearly Archives: 2015

Iran’s Internet Penetration Management System has recently released new statistics for the first quarter of current fiscal year in Iran. According to this report which is based on total connections in the country, internet Penetration is 82.12%.

Iran’s first banking solution provider Tosan held the first fintech hackathon on payment solutions and banking called TosanBoom Innovation Challenge. Over 170 teams applied for the 3 day hackathon, where 24 teams were selected to join to battle.

Tehran's prominent startup accelerator, Avatech had its second demo day on Thursday, November 12th 2015. The invite-only event was packed with local and international investors along with some of the Iranian officials. During the demo day startups showcased their products and progress to investors and the press.

On Sunday November 8th, Fanap, the ICT Subsidiary of Pasargad Financial Group held a press conference to describe the activities of their startup accelerator, Trigup.

According to Iran's President of the Assembly of the Association of Information and Communication Technology, during the unofficial visit of one of the senior managers of Apple to better understand the Iranian market, he informed them that Apple wants to legally pursuit its use of logo in Iran.

If you are a Telegram user in Iran, you may have experienced some data traffic problems in the past 2 or 3 days. Right now the problems are gone and this popular text messaging application is back to its normal state.

PayPing launches its product today becoming Iran’s first C2C money transferring platform. PayPing mechanism is pretty much like the existing paypal.me.

There’s a chance that we might see another economic collapse like the 'Dot-com bubble' which occurred back in the 90s . The so-called 'tech bubble' in Silicon Valley is the main topic of today's debates. But if there's a bubble, is it avoidable?

Iran's Minister of Communications in a meeting with his Russian counterpart agreed upon the presence of Yandex in Iran. Yandex is the dominant search engine in Russia and soon would have an office in Iran so it could service Iranians better.

“The disturbances in Telegram application were because of disconnections in some communication channels. Government's policy is to not filter any social networks matching the Iranian law”, said Mahmoud Vaezi, Iran's Minister of Communications.