Snapp This is an Iranian version of Uber

Another western clone is called Snapp.This is an Iranian version of Uber. Founded in 2014 by Shahram Shahkar, a graduate of Manchester University, UK, it now has some 10,000 drivers and five million registered users in Tehran and two other cities. Shahkar recently launched Snapp One, offering a female-only driver service and Snapp VIP, offering Maseratis and Porsches for richer clients. TV I knew what I was coming back to.We have restrictions but,at the same time,we have ways to access pretty much everything. Sunday Times 21 May 2017 Aparat is an Iranian version of YouTube. Five million videos a day are watched on the site and it gets about 150 million hits a month.It recently introduced a new free-ofcharge service called Filimo, a version of Netflix. Founded by Mohammad Javad Shakouri Moghadam in 2005, it is part of Sabaldea, a company that is also behind a number of other successful internet projects, including Cloob. com, a Persian-language social networking site with over 3 million users, and Mihanblog.com, a free blog hosting service. Sabaldea was launched with a staff of 3 and now has some 65 employees. As sanctions are lifted, Shakouri Moghadam hopes that many of its users will stay loyal: Of course the absence of YouTube here has helped us to grow, but even if the filtering were lifted our emphasis on original content means we will be less affected. X, M I : © Nazanin Daneshvar and services, from restaurants and coffee shops to theatres and concert tickets. Takhfifan claims to have over a million email subscribers and offers 20 to 25 deals a day. Founded in 2011 by Nazanin Daneshvar, who left her job in a German investment bank to return to Iran, together with her sister, it now has some 60 employees: Four years ago, people in Iran didn’t know what start-ups were or they associated them with fraud, but now they are taken seriously and people show trust. The Observer 31 May 2015 NetBarg is Takhfifan’s main local competitor.It was founded by Ali Reza Sadeghian, a graduate of Colombia Business School, USA. He sees the potential for internet start-ups in Iran as huge. Takhfifan is an Iranian version of the deal-of-the-day website Groupon, offering discounts on a range of products Other countries have far less challenges but we have ni r\ i less competition. 2 How and why is the Iranian internet market different to 4 What might be the effect on these businesses if or the market in the West? How is it different to China’s? when Western competitors enter the Iranian market?