The First Incubation Center for Turkish Internet Entrepreneurs Opens!
One Comment by Hasan Başusta on December 9, 2009
Today I want to share news I have known for a long time and been eagerly waiting to give you. Turkey’s first incubation center for internet entrepreneurs is opening in Istanbul. First let me explain what an incubation center for those who do not know. We see examples to incubation centers in the United States and [...]
Interview: iMobileCode and iPhone Applications
No Comment by Hasan Başusta on December 8, 2009
We have mentioned about Cahit Taşkın, one of the founders of iMobileCode, in the article titled “free popular iPhone applications” earlier. Now we had an interview with him on mobile applications and got valuable information on the market, and company developing popular applications such as Deniz Otobüsü, Eczane and Havaalanı, iMobileCode and its studies. Hasan: Can you [...]
Will New E-Commerce Model of Dopdolu.com.tr Be A Remedy?
No Comment by Hasan Başusta on December 7, 2009
Having carried out Gold Bilgisayar (b2c), Metro Elektronik (b2b), Hızlıal (b2c), and Sanalpazar (c2c) before, Gold Group added a new initiative to its portfolio in April 2009: Dopdolu (b2c), which brought a question to our minds: Why did the company created more than one web sites in the same model belonging to the same group? We have addressed [...]
Webrazzi is Just in the Middle of Social Media!
No Comment by Hasan Başusta on November 25, 2009
While I was having a look at Google Trends data today, I saw two interesting and pleasing data. According to this data, Webrazzi is one of the most visited websites visited by people who visit FriendFeed in Turkey (see Also Visited). For Twitter, Webrazzi is the second of the websites visited the most. It is [...]
NotebookPlatformu.com and Its Earnings Model
No Comment by Hasan Başusta on November 25, 2009
Notebook Platformu is a service with the aim of gathering all laptop users under a single roof. Established in 2007 and been fully active for only one year, Notebook Platformu has 58 thousand members. The service is the newest initiative of Hayal Akademisi, which realized Kulüp Vaio project, is based on a similar but wider concept [...]
Minister Binali Yildirim’s Reaction to Google Tax Issue
No Comment by Hasan Başusta on November 9, 2009
As we have mentioned in the previous article, Webstar Turkey awards took place with Minister of Transport Binali Yildirim’s address to the audience. Yildirim’s speech lasted for half an hour and he made striking comments on Google’s tax issue. In the awards ceremony, Yildirim underlined without naming Google that tax penalty of 71 million Turkish liras [...]
Web World Gets 4 Awards from Turkey’s The Most Successful Young Persons of the Year Contest
One Comment by Hasan Başusta on October 20, 2009
Junior Chamber International – JCI is one of the largest nongovernmental organizations in the world with more than 200 thousand members and operating in 123 countries. JCI has announced the results of Turkey’s Most Successful 10 People (TOYP) Project in the premier night held in Is Art Center Gallery. The jury of the contest included [...]
StudentSN’s Micro Payment Solution and Social Responsibility Project
No Comment by Hasan Başusta on October 10, 2009
StudentSN (Student Social Network) is a student based social network site as we have mentioned in our article before. Funded at $500 thousand from Germany last year, StudentSN is attaching more importance to Turkey now. studentSN has some alternative products such as SMS delivery, mobile content (downloading games, ringing tones to mobile phones) and distant education [...]
Why The Access To Popular Facebook Games is Blocked in Turkey?
8 Comments by Hasan Başusta on October 4, 2009
On October 3, 2009, Zynga.com, owner company of the most popular Facebook games such as Farmville, Mafia Wars, Yoville, Zynga (Texas Hold’em) Poker, Blackjack …), was blocked in Turkey. To date, we have not posted any entries until we have the facts and details concerning this incident. Meanwhile, we have taken a screenshot of the screen [...]
Interview: Nurettin Ozdogan on KariyerGENC
No Comment by Hasan Başusta on September 28, 2009
KariyerGENC is an initiative that was brought to life to support newly graduated or still studying young people in their career development as we have mentioned before. The company’s aim is to build a bridge between young talents and companies. They work with almost 90 worldly known and leader Turkish companies, some of whose are [...]