Hazinem Pırlanta: Major Investors Invest in Diamond
One Comment by Arda Kutsal on December 27, 2011
Emre Kurttepeli mentioned about his interest in vertical e-trading in this year’s Webrazzi Agenda E-commerce Meeting, and he confirmed this interest once again. A fresh startup, Hazinem Pırlanta A.Ş., is the new vertical e-trading investment with its experienced management team and major investors, including Emre Kurttepeli. The startup will be offering diamond ring, necklace, bracelet, [...]
Foursquare Gives Special Badge to Istanbul
No Comment by Sami Eyidilli on December 27, 2011
Last week we wrote that Foursquare has reached 15 million users, and the number of its members continues to rise rapidly. Foursquare puts its users in a race with its badges, and receives very nice feedbacks with its special badges and encourages Foursquare usage. Foursquare used to work with its partners, and create special badges [...]
Germany Based Ballroom International Network Acquires Reklamz, Linkz and SEM A.Ş.
No Comment by Arda Kutsal on December 23, 2011
Reklamz, one of the leading Turkish advertising networks, has been acquired by Germany-based Ballroom International Network. The acquisition a contract included its sister companies Linkz and SEM A.Ş. Ballroom International included Reklamz, Vidyoda, SEM and Linkz to its network after acquiring all sister companies, which offer advertising and digital services, and updated its website as necessary. You [...]
CubeCDN: Owners of Mackolik Invest in CDN Technology
No Comment by Ümit Öncel on December 23, 2011
Content Distribution Network (CDN) technology is one of the major steps to address the needs of today’s web hosting industry. Particularly large web sites’ contents are hosted in servers that are in various physical locations and connected using CDN, gaining advantage in terms of security, traffic managements and speed. CDN technology bears a major importance [...]
Amazon Takes the First Step Into the Turkish Market with CicekSepeti.com!
No Comment by Arda Kutsal on December 20, 2011
We are sharing one of the most important news about Turkish internet market in 2011 with you now! World’s e-commerce giant Amazon has finally taken its position in Turkish market as expected and took its first step into Turkish market as the minority shareholder of CicekSepeti.com. As we have learned, contract process that was being [...]
Visitor Numbers for Private Shopping Websites in October by comScore
One Comment by Arda Kutsal on December 19, 2011
Private shopping market has been achieving a steady growth compared to group shopping market, and we thought taking a closer look to this market would be fine. So we requested October data from comScore. The data below reveals that the market is developing steadily. Private shopping market has achieved serious growth in terms of not [...]
Luxybox.com: Çağlar Erol Invests in Birchbox “Box” Model
No Comment by Fırat Demirel on December 15, 2011
Personal care product, cosmetics and perfume industries bear very big opportunities in e-trading world, which is dominated by women and attract both users and investors as a result. Lately the industry has inspired e-trading start-ups as the investment Balerin.com has received, and took it a step further with Markafoni’s sister company MissPera. As the driving [...]
Germany Based Ballroom International Network Acquires Reklamz, Linkz and SEM A.Ş.
No Comment by Arda Kutsal on December 13, 2011
One of the leading advertising networks in Turkey, Reklamz, was acquired by Germany-based Ballroom International Network with a contract that included its sister companies Linkz and SEM A.Ş. Ballroom International bought the entire sister companies offering advertising and digital services, and included Reklamz, Vidyoda, SEM and Linkz to its network, while updating its website as necessary. You [...]
eCift.com Gets 3 M Euros from 3TS Capital
No Comment by Fırat Demirel on December 9, 2011
eÇift is a “serious relationship website” which was founded by sevenload founders Tamer and Akgün Kulmaç and Janset Çelik, and it has received a new investment. 3TS Capital is the 2009 December-born service’s 2. investor, following BrainsToVentures. 3TS Capital Partners invests in companies based in Central and Eastern Europe, and the company has made an investment [...]
Tamindir.com Renews and Gets More Powerful
No Comment by Fırat Demirel on December 8, 2011
Devrim Demirel, founder of Beriltech, had invested in Tamindir.com, one of the most popular program download websites in Turkey, and given the news of upcoming developments. Tamindir.com caught attention with its recent news a short while ago, and we have gained some information from Devrim Demirel about them. Tamindir.com, with its founder Caner Bayraktar, is [...]