Product news, field notes and what we're seeing across the markets we build in — Syria's tech reopening included.
Cards are back: inside Syria's payments reboot
Why we still reach for Flutter in 2026
Damascus has a tech trade-show season again
Accessibility from day one is cheaper than accessibility ever
Syria has a National Startup Agenda now — here's what's in it
When to embed AI in your product (and when not to)
The greenfield advantage: what Syria gets to skip
Build the design system before the screens
The Visa agreement isn't just about payments plumbing. Buried in it: a regulatory sandbox framework, a national fintech competition, cybersecurity cooperation, and training programs. That's an ecosystem blueprint.
Our engineering team works in Dubai, Damascus, Istanbul, and Tallinn. Here's how we use that as an advantage instead of a coordination tax.
Announced on the main stage of MWC Barcelona: an international tender to replace MTN Syria, targeting over a billion dollars of investment, with a 2G/3G phase-out and 5G refarming built into the plan.
Syria's communications minister spent late February meeting tech leaders in San Francisco — and left with a signed Visa agreement. The symbolism matters as much as the substance.
Six lessons from twelve months, four offices, forty product launches, and one quiet bet that paid off bigger than we expected.
100% foreign ownership in software. Telecom capped at 49%. Tax holidays up to ten years. And a FATF grey-listing you must take seriously. The current rulebook, summarized.
Every byte of Syrian cloud traffic currently does a round trip abroad. A greenfield hosting market with new submarine capacity and a power problem — here's how the math works.
From the fall of the regime to the repeal of the Caesar Act: a precise timeline of how the world's most comprehensive sanctions program was dismantled — and what's still in force.
36% penetration. A million-plus new mobile connections in a year. A user base raised on WhatsApp and Telegram. The statistics say 'underdeveloped'; the texture says 'mobile-first and ready.'
Average fixed broadband near the bottom of global rankings, electricity a few hours a day in much of the country, and Starlink in a regulatory gray zone. Here's how we design software for that — without patronizing the user.
Steam, Binance, Zoom, Google's ad network, GitHub. A running inventory of the global services that have restored access — and the legal plumbing that made it possible.
Under the old regime, an electronic application legally needed a license before it could exist. An April 2025 decision flipped the default: register your company, ship, and notify. It's the quietest big deal of the year.
On September 4, 2025, GitHub announced that private repos, paid plans, and Copilot are returning to every developer in the country. What was lost in 2019, what's restored, and what it changes.
On July 30, 2025, Syria was formally readmitted to the global mobile industry's standards body after more than a decade outside. Months earlier, the first 5G pilot went live in Damascus. The sequence is the story.