LinkedIn Reaches 1 million member in Turkey
No Comment by Ahmet Can Şit on March 7, 2012
LinkedIn gets a new member every two seconds, and earlier we had written that the service reached 150 million users. But the number of members in Turkey was an object of interest. Recently the company has announced that LinkedIn has more than 1 million members in Turkey. LinkedIn EMEA General Manager Ariel Eckstein said Turkey [...]
Mixx Awards 2011 Winners Announced
No Comment by Sami Eyidilli on February 28, 2012
Mixx Awards 2011, recognizing the most successful in digital marketing communication industry and the plus value they add to the industry and their brands presented the awards at a ceremony held in Rahmi Koç Museum last night. Best Campaign of 2011 Award went to Frito Lay – Tribal DDB İstanbul/Medina Turgul DDB for its Doritos Akademi [...]
DLD Turkey session ends with “Digital Bosphorus”
One Comment by Noyan Ayan on February 9, 2012
Held every year in Germany Munich and accepting participants with invitations, DLD conference today hosts exclusive Turkey session. The session named “Digital Bosphorus” will start at TSI 11:10 and the speakers are well known by Webrazzi readers. Alemşah Öztürk (41? 29!), Cenk Bayrakdar (Turkcell), Nevzat Aydın (Yemeksepeti), Sidar Şahin (Peak Games) and Sina Afra (Markafoni) will be speaking at the session and it will [...]
Turkey’s broadband nearly makes it in the internet global ranking
No Comment by Ahmet Can Şit on February 2, 2012
Another study on the number of broadband internet subscriptions has been published. The study reveals that total number of broadband internet subscribers in the world has shown a slight increase, reaching as high as 600 million. Turkey is not in the top 10 list, but Information Technologies and Communications Foundation (BTK) figures show that Turkey [...]
2011-2012 Evaluation Article Serie [Infograph]
No Comment by Serkan Ünsal on January 30, 2012
As you know, we had started an article series towards the end of 2011. We have created an infograph to sum up with the article series and give hints on the year 2012 for entreprenuers. To do this, we have talked to 19 people who can make investments. There are very valuable people on the [...]
Webrazzi Almanac 2011
No Comment by Ali Altuğ KOCA on January 18, 2012
2011 has been a year with major advances for Turkish internet industry. Apart from foreign investors’ great interest in Turkish market, Gittigidiyor acquisition by eBay and Markafoni acquisition by Naspers as majority shareholder have been significant milestones for the industry. Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers investment of 26 million dollars in Trendyol and Amazon investment in ÇiçekSepeti [...]
A start-up story: UzmanTV caught profitability in 4.5 years
No Comment by Fırat Demirel on January 17, 2012
I believe that early start-up owners should write a book about their story, even a blog, in Turkey. Successful start-up owners should transfer their knowledge and experience on blogs, just as thesis and studies transfer know-how in academic career. This story was inspired by Ersan Özer, who started to write his blog again. Ersan Özer’s article [...]
Webrazzi 2011 results are in!
No Comment by Ali Altuğ KOCA on January 11, 2012
Webrazzi 2011 process started with your nominees on the first days of December, and it was finalized last Friday. Webrazzi 2011 ended with a large participation as last year, while a more than 200 thousand votes were used in total. Below is the full list of Webrazzi 2011 results with the bests of 2011 selected by your [...]
The Results are in for Qualcomm Mobile Business Idea and Application Competition
No Comment by Fırat Demirel on January 10, 2012
Qualcomm’s contest looking for mobile start-up owners “Mobile Business Idea and Application Contest” is over and the results are in. A total of 16 mobile business ideas made it to the finals to be selected by the jury on December 21. The competition gives a total cash prize of 50,000 TL and the awards were [...]
Bebekbezi.com: OZN Medya Focuses on Diapers and Other Baby Products After Evim.net
No Comment by Fırat Demirel on December 2, 2011
A new player is joining the diaper market which is expected to be a 900-million-dollar market in 2010. Having stepped in e-trading with Evim.net, OZN Medya has recently introduced Bebekbezi.com. Bebekbezi.com could be the most important domain name that OZN Medya owns in the area of e-trading. The average for Google results for baby diaper [...]