巴扎商店在新闻界：多年来巴扎商店的精选报道

这就是在伊朗启动一家初创公司的感觉

华盛顿邮报 | Matt McFarland

“About 15 years ago, he was the first kid in his Tehran high school to get the Internet. “Don’t try to tell anybody else about it,” he recalls his principal warning. “It might affect their culture, their beliefs.” She was an early Internet user, too, and obsessed with Yahoo messenger. She’d message strangers in chat rooms while assuring her concerned parents that she wasn’t revealing too much. Fast forward to today and the duo is at the helm of some of Tehran’s thriving start-ups. Both left Europe for careers in Iran. Cafe Bazaar co-founder Hessam Armandehi, 28, and Takhfifan founder Nazanin Daneshvar, 30, have turned profits, had to move to larger offices and gained thousands of customers. His high school now has WiFi. And she’s too busy for chat rooms, but has come to idolize Yahoo chief executive Marissa Mayer. …” Rest here.

伊朗企业家对外国资金、专业知识的渴望

路透社 | Georgina Prodhan

“Some Iranian start-ups have flourished with backing from Sarava, Iran’s first venture-capital fund, which has invested in online retailer Digikala and Google Android app store Cafe Bazaar, two of Iran’s best-known Internet companies. Digikala went on to attract a $10 million investment from a European fund last year, making headlines as this valued the company at $150 million, while Cafe Bazaar’s co-founder Hessam Armandehi is a poster child for Iran’s high-tech scene. …” Rest here.

技术初创公司在德黑兰扎根

华尔街日报 | Benoit Faucon and Rory Jones

“But there also is a sense of freedom in the startup universe in Iran that is missing in more traditional sectors of the economy. While the average Iranian state official typically wears in a dark gray suit and a collarless white shirt, Café Bazaar co-founder and Chief Executive Hessam Armandehi turns up to work sporting a polo shirt. …” Rest here.

问答：巴扎商店讨论伊朗应用市场

Saleha Riaz

“Briefly tell us about the app economy in Iran and Cafe Bazaar’s place in it. Amin Amirsharifi (AA), CEO: People in Iran love technology. The internet penetration rate reached 53.23 per cent by the end of March 2017, and there are an estimated 40 million smartphones in Iran. … What are your thoughts on Apple and Google banning Iranian apps? Hessam Armandehi (HA), co-founder and executive chairman: We invested in developing a few iOS apps that are now widely used in Iran but with the ban, we have stopped that. I believe people will switch to platforms and marketplaces that, unlike Apple and Google, provide them with ease of access, various payment services and more convenient customer support. …” Rest here.

低消费物价指数和高每用户平均营收：伊朗，中东增长最快的手机应用市场

PocketGamer.Biz

“In terms of gaming revenue generated by users, Iran stands on the third place in the Middle East, right after Turkey and Saudi Arabia, data from Statista and Newzoo show. Based on industry reports, while a games developer should spend average $2m to acquire 400k users anywhere else ($5 per install), the cost of reaching the same number of installs on Cafe Bazaar is zero. Featuring and promotion plans can help developers acquire more users via Iran’s biggest marketplace, which is home to over 37m users. Based on reports, a game can organically gain up to 1,000 installs. …” Rest here.

伊朗的应用程序开发商在一年内赚得1370万美元

金融论坛

“Iran’s largest Android app market, Café Bazaar, released a report at the weekend saying that there are 7,000 active application developing teams in the country and 20,700 people work for the rapidly expanding sector. Published in a blog post on Café Bazaar, the report states that during the past Iranian fiscal that ended in March 2017, Iranian developers collectively earned 650 billion rials ($13.7 million). Some 1,400 app developing companies are registered. …” Rest here.

一群孩子是如何成为伊朗最受欢迎的安卓游戏的

Tech Rasa | MohammadReza Azali

“However, we shouldn’t forget the role of first Android market place in Iran named Cafe Bazaar. Because without it, developing an android app and releasing it in google play would have been so hard. After sanctions, many companies like Google, Apple closed down their app store to Iranian. The only way to use these markets was using VPNs and manually changing the location of jailbreaked or rooted devices through some special apps. This was only on users’ side, you can imagine when you can’t download an app through App Store or Google Play, and surely you can’t submit your app to google to release it on google play. So Bazaar played an important role by providing a platform for users in Iran to download apps and for developers to easily release their apps on their android market. …” Rest here.

面纱背后：对伊朗领先的应用商店一瞥

冒险搏动 | Amir Bozorgzadeh

“Hessam Aramandehi, Cafe Bazaar’s CEO, recently said during our panel talk at October’s Game Connection that his company’s app store covers “85 perecent of the market with 25 million active installs.” … In terms of annual revenue, Newzoo’s latest report estimates total Iranian games revenue in 2015 to be USD $194 million (October 19, 2015). I clock mobile games at 25 percent of that, which tallies to about $50 million. It’s hard to work out Cafe Bazaar’s revenues from there, for a variety of reasons that can’t fit into this current article, but it’s probably somewhere around $30-$35 million for 2015. These are my own calculations. …” Rest here.

在德黑兰做游戏：一个巨大的市场，没有连接

GameIndustry.biz | Brie Code

“Most Iranians buy their games from local solutions such as Cafe Bazaar, a store available on Android. In fact, many of the services that game developers take for granted in other parts of the world — from the Unity engine to global networked banking — are not so readily available in Iran. My Canadian and German bank cards are useless here. This creates incredible challenges for Iranian developers, but also opportunities. Businesses like Cafe Bazaar are built to duplicate these global services. …” Rest here.

荷兰公司投资伊朗技术公司

金融论坛

“Amsterdam-based business International Internet Investment Coöperatief (IIIC) is planning to invest €38 million in Iranian tech firm Hezar Dastan Holdings owner of Café Bazaar (major local Android app market) and Divar (online classified ads service). ‘Through the investment, the Dutch business will acquire a 10% stake in the holding,’ Bazaar’s co-founder and chairman of the board Hessam Armandehi was quoted as saying by ILNA. ‘Our management structure will remain intact after the investment,’ Armandehi said, ‘The money will be used to develop new services including a cloud service.’ … Setting the bar higher for his firm, Armandehi said, ‘We are planning to turn Café Bazaar into a unicorn startup.’ …” Rest here.

巴扎商店与 Supercell 签订了合同

Techrasa | Mohammad Reza Azali

“Clash of Clans is one of the most popular mobile games in Iran with more than 5 Million installs only on Cafe Bazaar android market. Thanks to the new deal signed between Cafe Bazaar and Supercell, Iranians can now buy Gems in Rial from this Iranian android market. … As mobile games got more popular in Iran, Cafe Bazaar began implementing In-App purchase with local debit cards for the most popular foreign android games. Right now, Machinarium, Clash of Kings, Brothers in Arms 3, March of Empires, Township, King’s Empire are amongst the games that Cafe Bazaar brought to its market with the ability to make In-App purchases by local debit cards.” Rest here.

伊朗的游戏产业

Yara Elmjouie

“Cafe Bazaar’s credit system — like Microsoft Points — has single-handedly enabled freemium games in a country where online financial transactions still require users to reenter their national debit card information every time they make a purchase. Two of the Bazaar’s biggest mobile titles, Fruitcraft (100,000+ downloads) and Rooster Wars (800,000 registered users), are a testament to that. With a 114 percent spike in game revenue since last quarter, Moallemi says, the utility-dominated Cafe Bazaar is looking to games to drive future growth. Various European publishers are in talks to bring their Android games to the Bazaar’s users, Moallemi says. …” Rest here.

德黑兰梦想：除了石油和化肥，印度公司在伊朗赢得了难以置信的机会

Quartz | T.V. Mohandas Pai

“Iran has used the years under the sanctions to develop internally, with good roads, water and housing supplies and an education system where women predominate — nearly 70% of Iranian science and engineering students are women. Close to 300,000 engineers in Iran have built homegrown replacements not just for nuclear technology but also for internet and mobile applications. Iran’s young, 20-something IT community has created Cafe Bazaar in place of Google Play; Bamilo instead of Amazon; Taxi Yaab instead of Uber, Mazando instead of Ebay. …” Rest here.

巴扎商店在《世界移动通信大会》（MWC）介绍了伊朗当地的移动生态系统

Techrasa | Mohammad Reza Azali

“Mobile World Congress is the world’s largest gathering for the mobile industry, organized by the GSMA and held in the Mobile World Capital Barcelona, from 27 February to 2 March 2017. With the help of Cafe Bazaar, Iranian developers have been working hard in the past 5 years to develop local apps for the Iranian market. “By attending the MWC, Cafe Bazaar aims to introduce Iran’s local mobile ecosystem, its potentials, and to find ways to give local developers new chances to reach a wider audience and to work on a larger scale,” says Iman Mohammadi, Cafe Bazaar’s business development manager. …” Rest here.

重要的创业有助于传播社会意识

金融论坛

“A local startup named ‘Moheme’ (meaning it is important) has been launched with the aim of increasing social awareness about different issues. Moheme is a social media platform available through the website moheme.ir and an Android app available for download from local application market Café Bazaar. According to the website of the startup, it is a nonprofit organization that wants to help foster the sense of social responsibility in individuals and groups over a wide range of issues. …” Rest here.

三星、华为主宰伊朗安卓手机市场

金融论坛

“Major Iranian Android app distributor Cafe Bazaar, a copy of Google Play services, has released its second quarterly market review report (for the quarter ending Sep.) that provides developers and tech enthusiasts some insight into Iran’s expanding mobile services industry. The number of users who have downloaded Cafe Bazaar is 36 million, 29 million of whom are actively using it. Since most Iranian Android phone users have the popular Bazaar app on their handsets, the data in the report can provide a general image of the Android app industry in Iran. …” Rest here.