In a new win for Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement, Samsung Next, which has invested in some 70 Israeli start-ups so far, is the latest to join the list of companies that have left the Israeli tech sector.

IntelliNews - South Korean behemoth Samsung Electronics has denied rumours that it is leaving the Iranian market in the face of US sanctions imposed on Tehran and foreign companies that continue to do business with Iran, according to a Digiato magazine report published on April 24. Iranian media have lately reported that the technology brand, along ...

Financial Tribune - As per the new rule, if a mobile phone is harmed due to a locally-developed application, the devices warranty would still be valid but Samsung can charge the customer for repairs To help uphold consumer rights and some prodding from the Iran Information Technology Organization, Samsung has revised its smartphone warranty conditions....

February 10, The Iran Project - The news reports over Samsungs decision to exclude Iranian Winter Olympics attendees from receiving the companys Olympic-edition smartphones sparked outrage in Iran, prompting the Foreign Ministry to summon the South Korean ambassador which eventually led to an apology from the company. Earlier this week, media report ...

Press TV- South Korean officials say they will not provide Iranian and North Korean players with Samsung smartphones which are available free to all other athletes at the Winter Olympics starting Friday. State news agency Yonhap quoted PyeongChang Olympic organizers as saying Wednesday that the decision had been taken in line with sanctions ...

Daily look at Irans late-breaking news and upcoming events:   Iran rejects reports of Israel downing Iranian drone as ridiculous state TV Irans Foreign Ministry rejected as ridiculous reports that Israel had intercepted an Iranian drone launched from Syria on Saturday, state TV reported.   Samsung officially apologizes to Iranian ...

Sputnik - Tehran has reprimanded Samsung Electronics, one of the sponsors of the 2018 Winter Olympics, for refusing to hand its new smartphones to Iranian athletes, allegedly due to sanctions slapped on the Islamic Republic. The move, however, may backfire on Samsung, Iranian sports commentator Mostafa Shoughi has told Sputnik. Iranian ...

IRNA Minister of Sports and Youth Masoud Soltanifar said on Friday that the Organizing Committee of he Olympic Games and Samsung Company have officially apologized to Iranian athletes for excluding them from the list of athletes receiving high-end Samsung smartphones. 'We achieved our goals by their apology and acceptance of their mistakes. Insulting ...

IRNA - Iran's Prosecutor General Mohammad Jafar Montazeri has ordered to urgently pursue Samsung insulting move toward Iranian Olympians. The order reads that following the insulting move of Samsung towards the Iranian athletes who are representing the great nation of Iran and given the huge interest it earns from Iran's lucrative market, it is essential ...

Press TV - Organizers of the Pyeongchang 2018 Olympic Winter Games in South Korea say they have formally apologized to Iran over an earlier decision to deny its athletes gift Samsung smartphones, which sparked diplomatic furor in Tehran. The head of the Pyeongchang organizing committee, Lee Hee-beom, confirmed he had written to the Iranian sports ...

IRNA Iran's ambassador to Seoul said that Iranian athletes participating in the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics have rejected the offer to receive smartphones. Mohammad Hossein Taherian told the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) that Iranian athletes in Pyeongchang have said the International Olympic Committee has announced that they could receive ...

MNA The Korean embassy has issued a statement Thu. in response to the Olympic-edition Samsung phones dilemma, saying the 'unwise' decision was quickly rectified due to close cooperation between Iran and Korea. The organizers of the Pyeongchang 2018 Olympic Winter Games annoucned Wednesday that athletes fromNorth Korea and Iran wont receivethe ...

IRNA Iran's Minister of Industry, Mine and Trade joined the campaign to boycott Samsung amid the protests to the move by the South Korean electronics giant in excluding Iranian athletes from its smartphones gift handout. 'Excluding Iranian athletes from those who receive Samsung smartphones in the Olympic Winter Games is insulting and the move is ...

IRNA Iranian foreign minister issued Thursday an ultimatum to Samsung Co to apologize for excluding the Iranian Olympians from receiving phones as a gift in South Korea Winter Olympics, an informed source said. If Samsung Electronics Co does not withdraw from its decision until Thursday afternoon, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad-Javad Zarif will ...

IRNA Head of National Olympic Committee of Iran urged the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to properly react to the Samsung Electronics Co. measure not to give Samsung cell phones to the Iranian Olympians in South Korea. Shahrokh Shahnazi sent separate letters to IOC, South Korea's National Olympic Committee and the country's ambassador to Tehran ...

MNA Irans Foreign Ministry has summoned South Korean ambassador to express strong protest over Samsungs decision to exclude Iranian Winter Olympics attendees from receiving the companys Olympic-edition smartphones. The Pyeongchang 2018 Olympic Winter Games is handing out special Olympic edition Galaxy Note 8 smartphones to competitors this year,...

Financial Tribune- Samsung's largest sales center opened in central Tehran last week. The store in the new Charsou Shopping Mall has been set up over an area of 820 square meters making it the biggest of its kind in the country. It has been designed as per the company's international standards and was launched during a ceremony attended by local ...

TEHRAN (ISNA)- Iranian Minister of Communications and Information Technology Mahmoud Vaezi who is in South Korea met with Samsung Electronic President Jong-Kyun Shin . Considering vast market of Iran and neighboring states, grounds have been provided for investment and joint production of new technologies in ICT field as well as establishing research ...

Tehran, January27, The Iran Project A senior official at Iran's ministry of Health says that the ministry received applications from 60 foreign firms to invest in hospital building projects in Iran among which the proposals by an Italian and a Korean firm have been approved. Ibrahim Raisiyoun theEconomic Consultant of Iran's minister of health,...

[caption id="attachment_3677" align="alignright" width="213"] Samsung says it is determined to continue working in the Iranian oil industry.[/caption] South Koreas tech giant Samsung that has just finished a major oil project in Iran says it is determined to continue working in the Iranian oil industry. Sun Lee, a top Samsung official in Iran, ...