Trendyol Gets Investment from Kleiner Perkins!
One Comment by Arda Kutsal on July 25, 2011
[SPECIAL NEWS] Though yet to be confirmed, we have heard that popular private shopping club Trendyol has completed new round of investment funding. The investment was made by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, the investor of world’s giants including Groupon, Zynga and Twitter, and Trendyol has been valuated at a level of nearly 150 million dollars. As there [...]
Turkey Internet Usage Data from TTNET for 21 June
No Comment by Ali Altuğ KOCA on July 25, 2011
TTNET‘s official blog published a striking article with data for June 21, the longest day of the year, written by Şahin Şen, Vice President of Operations. The article shows that TTNET ADSL subscribers reached a speed of 500,00 Gbps on June 21 and total Internet use has reached an amount of 3458 Terabyte. While Internet [...]
AlkislarlaYasiyorum.com Acquired by Nokta
No Comment by Arda Kutsal on July 14, 2011
We already knew that Nokta would make new acquisitions in Turkish Internet market following Intel Capital investment, while the company’s co-founder and CEO Tümay Asena, who spoke at Webrazzi Agenda meetings, mentioned of the company’s plans for this aim. We have confirmed new acquisition news that we had been hearing of for a while and [...]
Naspers’s Allegro Group Acquired Markafoni
3 Comments by Ali Altuğ KOCA on July 12, 2011
We heard of the investment from Allegro, one of Naspers’ group companies, for Markafoni about two months ago and shared this news with you last week. Now the investment has been confirmed by a news bulletin we just received. The bulleting says that an approximate of 70 percent of Markafoni stakes have been bought by [...]
Pilli Network Changing Its Shell
No Comment by Fırat Demirel on July 6, 2011
Pilli Network has an important place in Turkish web world, and is getting ready to renew itself these days. Hasan Yalçınkaya has become the only owner of Pilli with share sales between partners a short while ago, and yesterday he wrote an article titled change on Pilli Blog, stating that Pilli has started to change [...]
Mobile Payment Share in Online Gaming by Mikro Odeme’s Figures
No Comment by Fırat Demirel on July 1, 2011
Alper Akcan, the founder of Mikro Odeme, made a presentation in our Webrazzi Agenda: Online Gaming meeting held yesterday and mentioned of mobile payment market is grabs attention in online gaming economy. Alper Akcan said that mobile payment is more and more preferred as a payment option in online games and shared some figures with [...]