Private Shopping Club Vipdukkan.com Gets $5M Dollars Investment From ePlanet Capital
No Comment by Arda Kutsal on June 29, 2011
vipdukkan.com is one of the private shopping start-ups in Turkey, which is not very known to public yet, but is continuing with firm steps forward. It has recently finalized the investment negotiations that we have been hearing about for a while. Investor of major companies including Skype and Baidu, ePlanet Capital has made an investment [...]
YeniModa.com: Another New Private Shopping Site
No Comment by Fırat Demirel on June 27, 2011
Though not as popular as group shopping market, private shopping websites have also considerable amount of traffic. I am more interested in niche examples in e-commerce market, and here is a new player in this field, which I’m sure will attract you interest too. YeniModa.com, with Ersan Özer as investor, will be included in private [...]
Aksesu.com: A Little Brother is On The Way For Evim.net
No Comment by Fırat Demirel on June 24, 2011
As e-trading industry is getting larger, the number of niche projects is increasing each day. OZN Media stepped in private shopping market with Evim.net 4 months ago, and now it is getting ready to realize Aksesu.com, which will offer accessories sale. Today it is a well-known fact that women are more active in e-trading both [...]
How Many Turks Are There on LinkedIn?
No Comment by Arda Kutsal on June 22, 2011
LinkedIn, a business network, is one of the companies expanding with firm and quiet steps in the internet market of Turkey. Although it has not yet penetrated into the market as Facebook or Twitter has, I think it is safe to say that its database is increasingly getting stronger each day as a service drawing attention [...]
Turkey Spends Third-Longest Time Online in Europe
One Comment by Fırat Demirel on June 14, 2011
comScore announced its Europe internet market March report. 363.7 million European internet users in the report spend 26 hours on average on internet last month. The monthly average in Turkey is 29.4 hours. This score makes us the country spending third-longest time online in Europe. Remember that in 2009 we were the country spending most time [...]
Swabr.com: Microblogging Effect on Enterprise Communication
One Comment by Fırat Demirel on June 13, 2011
Our online communication story started with e-mail; however social media communication occupies a larger place in our lives today. This trend is now beyond individual patterns and inspires enterprise communication. Swabr.com is a good example for it. Swabr.com, a web site which is defined as the blackboard of companies and organizations, is founded by Ayhan Koçak, [...]
ICTA Published 2011 1. Quarter Report on Turkey Market Data
One Comment by Serkan Ünsal on June 10, 2011
ICTA (Information and Communication Technologies Authority) end of quarter report was published. The report shows that there are more than 9 million broadband Internet subscribers in Turkey by the end of March 2011. The most attention-grabbing thing in the report is that ADSL market and mobile broadband market are in different reports. As you know, [...]
TTNET Traffic Shares from Tahsin Yılmaz
No Comment by Ümit Öncel on June 9, 2011
I guess most of our readers know TTNET GM Tahsin Yılmaz well. Tahsin Yılmaz is not only a good example to how a general manager of one of the large foundation should use social media with his Twitter account, but also informs the industry of data and information that are not easily accessible. Tahsin Yılmaz [...]
Sevenice Gets Investment from Swiss Company and Becomes Sevenice Switzerland
No Comment by Ali Altuğ KOCA on June 7, 2011
Sevenice, founded by Gökçen Karan and Publishing Sponsor of Webrazzi Agenda’s, is becoming a Switzerland company with the investment and start-up capital it has received from Switzerland. The company makes videos for Internet, advertising and presentation videos and corporate apps for Facebook and iPhone, and it will be re-established in Switzerland. Sevenice attended an annually [...]
Tiger Global and Emre Kurttepeli’s Co-investment: Sporcum.com
No Comment by Arda Kutsal on June 3, 2011
Tiger Global, known for its investments in companies including Mynet, Trendyol and Yonja Media Group, has been realizing its investments at close contact with Emre Kurttepeli, and now it has partnered with him for a project this time. This project is called Sporcum.com, and while giving service with traditional e-trading model focusing on sportswear, shoes and accessories, it [...]