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 [...]
How Many Turks Are There on LinkedIn?
No Comment by Arda Kutsal on June 22, 2011
LinkedIn, a business network, is one of the companies expanding with firm and quiet steps in the internet market of Turkey. Although it has not yet penetrated into the market as Facebook or Twitter has, I think it is safe to say that its database is increasingly getting stronger each day as a service drawing attention [...]
FriendFeed’s Destiny is in the Hands of Turkish Internet Users
No Comment by Arda Kutsal on June 1, 2011
FriendFeed has been standing by itself since it was acquired by Facebook in August 2009 and naturally it has lost the users’ interest once it had. Now there is one country supporting globally. And this country is, yes you are right, Turkey. Facebook had stated that it acquired FriendFeed as an investment in its human [...]
Mekanist.net Gets $2.5M from Pond Ventures on 2. Round
No Comment by Arda Kutsal on May 31, 2011
Mekanist.net first drew attention with the investment it got from Pond Ventures in July 2010 and now we have learned that 2. investment round has been finalized for the company. While the amount of investment for the first round was not announced back then, we had heard that it was at the level of 500 [...]
Social Gaming Company Peak Games Gets Investment of $5M from Earlybird Venture Capital
No Comment by Arda Kutsal on May 26, 2011
Social gaming company Peak Games drew attention since the very first day, and got 1,5 million dollars investment from Hummingbird Ventures a short while ago. Founded by Sidar Şahin in October 2010, the company reached a considerable growth with not only the high number of users by its games, but also the sales figures. This [...]
Dakick.com: Social Time Guide
One Comment by Fırat Demirel on May 17, 2011
Another brand new Turkish start-up has been launched. Backed by experienced names, dakick.com enters our lives as a social calendar with the motto “time guide”. Serkan Ünsal, founder of Fasulye Bilişim and Webrazzi author, Alper Akcan, co-founder of Mikro Ödeme and Soysal Demir, co-founder of Sodamedya have partnered for dakick.com and are helping us to [...]
Socialbakers Report: Turkey’s Most Active Brands on Facebok
No Comment by Ali Altuğ KOCA on April 11, 2011
Socialbakers identifies itself as the heart of Facebook statistics, and it has recently published Facebook Marketing report for Turkey. The report is compiled of February data, provided using Socialbakers Page Analysis tool. It reveals that Levi’s TR is the brand which communicates with its users via Facebook page the most. It is followed by Finansbank, BMW [...]
XING Turkey Office Closes, Operation Moves to Hamburg Headquarter
No Comment by Arda Kutsal on January 10, 2011
With more than 1 million members in Turkey, XING has decided to move its foreign offices in Spain and Turkey to its headquarters in Germany. The reasons of this decision is that the company aims to increase member activities, in accordance with company strategy and is focusing on the product itself, instead of local offices [...]
Turkey’s Young Population More and More Into Facebook
No Comment by Fırat Demirel on January 6, 2011
As Facebook makes a number of renovations, we had last taken a look into its position in Turkey in September. Facebakers which changed its name as Socialbakers recently, published an order of the fastest rising countries with Facebook users in November, thus giving a chance to make an evaluation. Let’s take a glance at our [...]
Caglar Erol invests in TurkStudent.net
No Comment by Arda Kutsal on December 29, 2010
We had informed you before that in September 2008, Akgün Kulmac and Tamer Kulmac made an investment on TurkStudent.net, the social networking website for high school and college students. And now, another investment comes from Caglar Erol for TurkStudent.net. Upon learning that Akgun and Tamer Kulmaz, the first investors of the site have left the [...]