Yemeksepeti has a stronger hand for its ecommerce journey with irmik.com
No Comment by Fırat Demirel on December 7, 2012
Yemeksepeti.com is one of the most successful startups in Turkey, and though it owes its growth to the food orders, it doesn’t stop making use of new ideas. One of those ideas is irmik.com, which has been providing services to restaurants for some time. İrmik.com is a private shopping website that offers sales products and [...]
New E-commerce move from Dogus Group with South Korean Partners: Numaraonbir.com
No Comment by Arda Kutsal on November 30, 2012
You will remember that in June we wrote about Doğuş Group’s ecommerce plans based totally hearsay information, following the strategic partnership agreement it signed with South Korean SK Group. Since then, Doğuş Group has made major steps and a new startup, Doğuş Planet was born, and the ecommerce startup, being the first product of the [...]
Pabbuc.com closed down
No Comment by Ali Altuğ KOCA on November 30, 2012
Pabbuc.com, founded by Serdar Yaman and gained investment from Gittigidiyor founders, officially announced that it stopped operations. The official statement was, “We have stopped our sales operations as of 30 November 2012 for an indefinite time.” The startup was started in 2005, and had been a good example of shoes vertical for 7 years; so [...]
Turkish E-Commerce grows by 40 percent compared to last year’s Q2
No Comment by Ahmet Can Şit on August 31, 2012
E-Commerce industry in Turkey continues to grow, in parallel with expectations. The Interbank Card Center (BKM) figures for 2012 Q2 show that the industry is approaching end year’s goals fast. BKM data reveal that the volume of transaction in ecommerce for 2012 Q2 has been 7.3 billion lira. Nearly 36 million transactions took place in [...]
Rocket Internet terminates operations in Turkey!
No Comment by Arda Kutsal on August 17, 2012
We have been hearing about it, but haven’t shared it with you as we didn’t have any confirmed information so far. Today, as we got the news confirmed by quite a few employees, Rocket Internet is shutting down its operations in Turkey. We have got in contact with many Rocket Internet employees, who confirmed today that [...]
Hepsiburada.com is in investment process with global giants [EXCLUSIVE NEWS]
No Comment by Arda Kutsal on June 18, 2012
Lately we had been receiving hearsay information that some global ecommerce companies and funds were interested in Hepsiburada.com, the largest ecommerce company in Turkey. Even global ecommerce giant Amazon was among the companies that we heard would be a partner of Hepsiburada.com. We have sped up researching about this hearsay information, since our credible sources [...]
GrupHediye.com receives 1.5m TL investment, changes its business model
No Comment by Fırat Demirel on May 28, 2012
We have introduced you Gruphediye.com as a startup that enables sending gifts to friends as a group before. Now the startup has adopted a new business model and gone international with the support of a loaded investment it has just received. The service started by Cengiz Coşkun, Talat İçbilen and Melis Sadıkoğlu, has left sales behind [...]
Ideasoft makes minority shares available for major partners
No Comment by Fırat Demirel on May 27, 2012
There has been a new investment in Turkish etrading industry, but for software this time. IdeaSoft, meeting small businesses with etrading by its etrading software, has sold its minority shares. Ideasoft, started by Seyhun Özkara, Fatih Çalışkan and Kerem Kaya in 2005, is planning to go international with the support of this investment. The startup [...]
Webrazzi E-Commerce’12 by Numbers
No Comment by Ahmet Can Şit on April 5, 2012
We had published an article about what happened in E-Commerce’12 conference, which hosted Turkish market’s dominating names as speakers and was held last Wednesday.We wanted to summarize the ideas and information given at the conference for you: The numbers particularly are very handy to keep.
Pabbuc.com grows 500% two years in a row [infograph]
No Comment by Fırat Demirel on March 25, 2012
Pabbuc.com made a summary of its past years and shared its major growth in 5 years with us. Started by Serdar Yaman, the service received its first investment from the founders of Gittigidiyor. The first figure at the infograph reveals the interest of women in ecommerce. Female users make up of 70 percent of all Pabbuc.com users [...]