In 2009, Iran was in turmoil, and the Islamic Republic was blocking and monitoring sites used by opposition groups—until a team led by American IT specialist Austin Heap built a program, Haystack, and ...

The controversial Canton-born parking app Haystack, long needled by local regulators in its nascent time on the market, is going back into the barn. Its story fits neatly into the creative destruction ...

It seemed too good to be true, and perhaps that should have been the first warning. "Haystack" was said to be just the needed tool for Iranian democracy activists to break through governmental ...