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Yemeksepeti’s new project Lokum.com officially introduced

No Comment by Ahmet Can Şit on December 11, 2012 Tweet

Last few weeks have been busy for Yemeksepeti, which started new projects for its users. And, it has officially introduced Lokum.com, which went online a short while ago, in a launch meeting. The meeting held in Yemeksepeti Office included Nevzat Aydın and gourmet Mehmet Yaşin.

Lokum.com is an ecommerce website that meets local tastes with users through local markets and offers products like cheese, deserts, spices, tomato paste, Turkish style sausage, and olive oil. Local tastes are brought together with taste packages categories.

Yelp opens in Turkey

No Comment by Sami Eyidilli on December 10, 2012 Tweet

After its profitable public offer in the first quarter of this year, Yelp is making its entry to Turkey market.

We are discussing the details about Yelp.com’s entry to Turkish market with Miriam Warren, Yelp.com New Markets VP. On our live broadcast, we’ll also talk about yelp.com’s plans for Turkey and the new features that will be available for Turkish users.

Update: Our live broadcast with details about Yelp Turkey (cited at firsthand) is over. You can watch the replay of this live broadcast later on our article and be one of the first to read the details about Yelp Turkey.

Yemeksepeti has a stronger hand for its ecommerce journey with irmik.com

No Comment by Fırat Demirel on December 7, 2012 Tweet

Yemeksepeti.com is one of the most successful startups in Turkey, and though it owes its growth to the food orders, it doesn’t stop making use of new ideas. One of those ideas is irmik.com, which has been providing services to restaurants for some time.

İrmik.com is a private shopping website that offers sales products and services to Yemeksepeti member restaurants. Its product range extends from food products to accessories, and kitchen devices to furniture and textile products. You can even purchase motorcycle supplies and paint and white wash services. Positioning itself as a marketplace, the website also shares industrial news for restaurants.

iTunes Store finally opens in Turkey

No Comment by Sami Eyidilli on December 4, 2012 Tweet

Finally the hearsay information we received a while ago has come true and Apple has opened iTunes Store in Turkey. Updated with 11. version, iTunes will be more meaningful for Turkish users as it has now a store in Turkey.

The platform previously offered app sales and podcast download, but now you can purchase Turkish music and movies as well.

Apple is getting ready to take place in Turkish market officially, put out job ads and chose it leader for Turkey. I believe that it is also an advantage for Apple as it has local contents in iTunes Store and it will help local artists make money.

For the time being there is limited number of local contents, but highlighted local artists are on display. I’m sure we’ll see more contents on iTunes Turkey store each day.

Online shopping via card will exceed 150 billion Euro in 2023

No Comment by Sami Eyidilli on December 1, 2012 Tweet

We’re proud to be made our first payment systems conference in Turkey a few days ago. Ödeme Sistemleri ’12 (Webrazzi Payment Systems ’12 Conference) was great to Turkish payment sector.

Honestly, we can not think conferences without Interbank Card Center of Turkey (BKM) about payment systems. They’re provide to great data and e-commerce statics about Turkish market. So, we’re announced a our new tool at Ödeme Sistemleri ’12 conference.

We’ are already visualized all of data provided by BKM on Webrazzi Analytics (you can check it out from here, in Turkish) as well and I would like to mentioned BKM Express on this article, which will be Turkey’s digital wallet.

New E-commerce move from Dogus Group with South Korean Partners: Numaraonbir.com

No Comment by Arda Kutsal on November 30, 2012 Tweet

You will remember that in June we wrote about Doğuş Group’s ecommerce plans based totally hearsay information, following the strategic partnership agreement it signed with South Korean SK Group. Since then, Doğuş Group has made major steps and a new startup, Doğuş Planet was born, and the ecommerce startup, being the first product of the partnership started to be bandied about in industry lobbies.

Our sources close to the company believe that Doğuş Planet is getting ready to market its new startup “Numara 11″, which is based on B2C. We thought that the startup, which will be online at Numaraonbir.com, would make use of GittiGidiyor model in the first days. However, we have talked to some sources today, and they think that the startup, which targets B2C instead of C2C, will have the format of Arabulvar.com, sister website of limango. But my personal opinion is that Numara 11 will still be a competitor for GittiGidiyor with its B2C model.

We have heard that Doğuş Planet, reaching a team of 80, will make Numara 11 online in the first months of 2013.

Pabbuc.com closed down

No Comment by Ali Altuğ KOCA on November 30, 2012 Tweet

Pabbuc.com, founded by Serdar Yaman and gained investment from Gittigidiyor founders, officially announced that it stopped operations. The official statement was, “We have stopped our sales operations as of 30 November 2012 for an indefinite time.” 

The startup was started in 2005, and had been a good example of shoes vertical for 7 years; so we were shocked at this sudden closedown. You can read below that all orders that have been given until today will be delivered without any problems.

We have talked with Serdar Yaman, Pabbuc.com founder and general manager. Serdar says Pabbuc.com has not gone bankrupt and it has started a liquidation process. He explains that the company has been looking to create new financial sources and meeting all investors in Turkey market, but has not succeeded in finding a new fund. 

29 Turkish Companies are listed in Deloitte Technology EMEA Fast 500

No Comment by Ahmet Can Şit on November 30, 2012 Tweet

International audit and management consulting services company Deloitte published its list for Deloitte Technology Fast 500 2012 EMEA Program. There are 29 Turkish companies in the list of 500 companies and two companies from Turkey are in the top 10.

Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA Program covering Europe, Middle East and Africa, is based on the growth rate of net sales of technology, media and telecommunications companies in the last 5 years. Top 10 includes Elkotek as 5. and Tektronik as 6. on the list.

However, what’s more striking is that there are more companies in Turkidh internet industry now. One of them is Ideasoft, which increased its net sales by 2 thousand 246 percent in the last 5 years and at the 53th place in the list. And there is Pozitron; it has made name with mobile applications and increased 956 percent in that period, finding its place at 149th row in the list.

There are nearly 20 million internet subscribers in Turkey

No Comment by Ahmet Can Şit on November 29, 2012 Tweet

Information and Communication Technologies Authority (ICTA) published industry data for 3Q 2012. The number of internet subscribers in Turkey is close to 20 million, the number of DSL subscribers continued to fall, as it did in previous quarters.

Currently there are 19.3 million internet subscribers in Turkey, while 19.2 million of them go online with broadband connection. This number was 12.8 million in 3Q 2011, which is way exceed by 18.3 million last quarter. The industry has recorded a growth of 6 percent, and 1 million new internet subscribers were added last quarter.

It is a fact that the number of DSL subscribers started to decline since the last three quarters; this decline continued, yet in a small scale, in 3Q 2012: 2Q had 6 million 632 thousand DSL subscribers, and 3Q had 6 million 602 thousand subscribers with a 0.5 percent decline.

Yemeksepeti receives $44m investment from General Atlantic

No Comment by Ali Altuğ KOCA on September 17, 2012 Tweet

We had written about investment meetings for Turkey’s leading online food order service Yemeksepeti in July. And last week, we told that the investment got resulted and it would be announced today. Finally today is the day and Yemeksepeti announced more information about investment it hasn’t shared yet.

It was announced that Yemeksepeti has received investment worth 44 million dollars, and the investor is General Atlantic, world’s leading fund.

General Atlantic is one of the largest investment funds in the world, with 14 billion dollars fund, and its first investment in Turkey goes for Yemeksepeti, and on Yemeksepeti part, the partners will continue to work as they used to. Yemeksepeti investment includes Endeavor Catalyst fund besides General Atlantic.