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23 April Gesture from Zynga [Video]

No Comment by Ümit Öncel on April 24, 2012 Tweet

Games have gone beyond being exclusive to children for a long time; and average age of online gamers being above 40 is a proof to this fact. Games let us leave our stressful lives behind, providing a “breathing area”, and remind adult people of the children in themselves.

Primary target audience of the world’s largest gaming company Zynga is adults, instead of children. But Zynga did not forget to celebrate the only day for children in the world and published an exclusive video for April 23 National Sovereignty and Children’s Day.

Webrazzi E-Commerce’12 by Numbers

No Comment by Ahmet Can Şit on April 5, 2012 Tweet

We had published an article about what happened in E-Commerce’12 conference, which hosted Turkish market’s dominating names as speakers and was held last Wednesday.We wanted to summarize the ideas and information given at the conference for you: The numbers particularly are very handy to keep.

Twitter brand pages go online in Turkey

No Comment by Sami Eyidilli on April 2, 2012 Tweet

Twitter brand pages have gone online in Turkey, with Turkcell being the first Turkish company to take place on brand pages. Twitter use bears much importance for brands, and it started last December with 21 giant companies (being Twitter’s partners at first) taking place on brand pages including Coca-Cola, American Express, Dell, McDonalds, Intel and General Electric.

Turkcell switched to brand pages and supported a civil society initiative, which is a very positive contribution. Turkcell placed the motto “Do you have 5 liras for Van?” as soon as it switched to brand pages, asking for support for Turkey Moneybox to help Van.

Influential press members in addition to brands use twitter’s brand pages, and the first to have this kind of page has been M. Serdar Kuzuloğlu a short while ago.

Pabbuc.com grows 500% two years in a row [infograph]

No Comment by Fırat Demirel on March 25, 2012 Tweet

Pabbuc.com made a summary of its past years and shared its major growth in 5 years with us. Started by Serdar Yaman, the service received its first investment from the founders of Gittigidiyor.

The first figure at the infograph reveals the interest of women in ecommerce. Female users make up of 70 percent of all Pabbuc.com users and each of them buys 5 pairs of shoes a year. On the other hand, each man buys 2 pairs of shoes a year on Pabbuc.com.

Can Digital Bosphorus Compete with Silicon Valley?

No Comment by Sami Eyidilli on March 22, 2012 Tweet

DLD conference held in Munich last week included a session for Turkey called Digital Bosphorus and it created huge sensation; as we are now witnessing the times when Turkish internet industry has taken its first steps a long time ago, and it has begin to run.

Let me tell you shortly about what happened in DLD conference that we earlier streamed live. Or, about what happened at Digital Bosphorus session.

ArcadeMonk receives investment from 212 Capital Partners

No Comment by Ali Altuğ KOCA on March 20, 2012 Tweet

We have published news of two 212 Capital Partners investments last week, and it has announced its third investment for ArcadeMonk. With founders Ömer Bilge Ersoy and Alemşah Öztürk, ArcadeMonk launced its first game Kebap Dünyası (World of Kebab) last year, and got silent afterwards.

Ömer Bilge Ersoy says there are 11 million social gamers in Turkey and local market is growing fast. Ersoy also says Arcade Monk is aiming to grow in EMEA and be a global.

While 212 Capital Partners investment amount is not officially announced, you would like to remember that 212 partner Emre Kurttepeli has been among Alemşah Öztürk and Ömer Bilge Ersoy founding Arcade Monk.

One Developer Challenge award goes to Turkey [Webrazzi is at BlackBerry DevCon]

No Comment by Fırat Demirel on March 19, 2012 Tweet

On the last day of Blackberry Devcon Europe, BlackBerry Partners Fund ve RIM’s BlackBerry Developer Challenge awards were announced. In the competition selecting the best apps, Turkey got one award.

The award for the best B2C application created by agencies was given to Yemeksepeti. The developer of the application is tmob, local Turkish tech company that we have written about before.

tmob won award for its BlackBerry application developed for Atlas Jet. We have talked to tmob Amsterdam Key Account Manager Arek Kayhan in Amsterdam and learned that the company has developed 7 apps for Blackberry so far.

BKM says: ’2011 has been the year of e-commerce for Turkey’

No Comment by Ahmet Can Şit on March 17, 2012 Tweet

The fast growth of Turkish e-commerce was among the most popular topics last year. The report of the first 6 months of 2011 expected that transaction volume of e-commerce would reach 20 billion TRY. However the industry passed this number way behind by the end of the year.

Interbank Card Center (BKM) data for 2011 reveals that the number of people who prefer e-commerce is increasing each day. The report shows that by the end of 2011, 135 million transactions, worth 22 billion TRY, with local credits cards, have been placed on local and foreign websites. When the turnovers of e-commerce for 2010 and 2011 are compared, there is an increase of 57 percent on e-commerce.

Online Banking Visitors Increases By 26 percent in 1 year in Turkey

No Comment by Fırat Demirel on March 15, 2012 Tweet

While banking is among the fields of interests for internet users, we still cannot say there is a large usage average. We had previously learned about some details from comScore’s study on banking in the US. What about banking websites in Turkey, how commonly are they visited?

comScore report, created in accordance with the number of unique visitors in banking, reveals that Turkey is the 13^th on the list, having one of the most active internet and social network users in Europe. The report shows that 9.4 million Turkish internet users visit banking websites.

LinkedIn Reaches 1 million member in Turkey

No Comment by Ahmet Can Şit on March 7, 2012 Tweet

LinkedIn gets a new member every two seconds, and earlier we had written that the service reached 150 million users. But the number of members in Turkey was an object of interest. Recently the company has announced that LinkedIn has more than 1 million members in Turkey.

LinkedIn EMEA General Manager Ariel Eckstein said Turkey is regarded a strategically important market for LinkedIn in terms of its location and economy.

Turkish employers including Aviva, Abdi İbrahim, Medyasoft and Doğuş Holding, make use of LinkedIn’s Human Resources Solutions to find employees in Turkey.