Mekanist.net Gets $2.5M from Pond Ventures on 2. Round
No Comment by Arda Kutsal on May 31, 2011
Mekanist.net first drew attention with the investment it got from Pond Ventures in July 2010 and now we have learned that 2. investment round has been finalized for the company. While the amount of investment for the first round was not announced back then, we had heard that it was at the level of 500 [...]
16.6% Turkish Internet Users are on Twitter!
2 Comments by Arda Kutsal on May 30, 2011
comScore has published a report today, listing the countries with the highest percentage of Twitter and LinkedIn usage. The report reveals that 26.1% of Dutch internet users have signed up for LinkedIn and Twitter. This rate makes Netherlands the country with the most LinkedIn and Twitter use, which means almost quarter of users log in [...]
Share Sales Between Pilli’s Partners
No Comment by Arda Kutsal on May 27, 2011
Webrazzi readers know closely about Pilli, one of the innovative companies in Turkish internet market, which has the ownership of popular websites including Bildirgec.org, hafif.org,10marifet.org , the social network sosyomat and innovative storage and file sharing service put.io. We have learned that there has been a share sale between Pilli’s two partners. Thruogh all these years, [...]
Social Gaming Company Peak Games Gets Investment of $5M from Earlybird Venture Capital
No Comment by Arda Kutsal on May 26, 2011
Social gaming company Peak Games drew attention since the very first day, and got 1,5 million dollars investment from Hummingbird Ventures a short while ago. Founded by Sidar Şahin in October 2010, the company reached a considerable growth with not only the high number of users by its games, but also the sales figures. This [...]
GittiGidiyor’s Value: 215 Million Dollars
11 Comments by Arda Kutsal on May 23, 2011
As you all know one of the most important acquisitions on Turkey’s internet market was done last week. One of the largest etrading companies, eBay, has bought 93% of GittiGidiyor, which it was minority shareholder of since 2007. As you must have realized, we did not give any info on the sales figures when we [...]
BKM Report: 2011 1. Quarter Volume of Internet Trading Reaches 4.8 Billion TRY
No Comment by Fırat Demirel on May 18, 2011
Interbank Card Center (BKM) has announced the data for e-trading use for the first 3 months of 2011. The report reveals that credit card transactions on e-commerce websites have increased by 40%, which is promising for the future. According to BKM data, in the first 3 month period of year 2011, the number of transactions [...]
Dakick.com: Social Time Guide
One Comment by Fırat Demirel on May 17, 2011
Another brand new Turkish start-up has been launched. Backed by experienced names, dakick.com enters our lives as a social calendar with the motto “time guide”. Serkan Ünsal, founder of Fasulye Bilişim and Webrazzi author, Alper Akcan, co-founder of Mikro Ödeme and Soysal Demir, co-founder of Sodamedya have partnered for dakick.com and are helping us to [...]
We Talked with Taner Aksoy About Aksoy Internet Ventures
No Comment by Ali Altuğ KOCA on May 16, 2011
Aksoy Group, also the owner of sahibinden.com, founded an investment network specifically for internet ventures. We talked with Taner Aksoy about the perspective of Aksoy Internet Ventures on the new ventures as well as the plans of the company which realized its first investment on dakick.com. We hope that it will be another example of interest [...]
comScore’s Video Metrix Turkey Report: We Watch More Videos on Facebook Than on YouTube!
No Comment by Fırat Demirel on May 13, 2011
The Turkey report by Video Metrix, the video measurement service of comScore, is now released. The report says that Facebook is the web site where most videos are viewed in Turkey. Google sites come next. Having launched its first services in the USA four years ago, Video Metrix provides measurement of online videos and has [...]
Webrazzi Summit Comes on October 19, 2011!
No Comment by Arda Kutsal on May 12, 2011
Last year Webrazzi Summit was held on 3 November 2010 and brought 277 different companies and 750 people together. Having senior officials from major companies from Turkey and the world as speakers, Webrazzi Summit is getting ready to get all the industry together to give a shape to the market once again on October 19, [...]