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 [...]
AlkislarlaYasiyorum.com Acquired by Nokta
No Comment by Arda Kutsal on July 14, 2011
We already knew that Nokta would make new acquisitions in Turkish Internet market following Intel Capital investment, while the company’s co-founder and CEO Tümay Asena, who spoke at Webrazzi Agenda meetings, mentioned of the company’s plans for this aim. We have confirmed new acquisition news that we had been hearing of for a while and [...]
Sevenice Gets Investment from Swiss Company and Becomes Sevenice Switzerland
No Comment by Ali Altuğ KOCA on June 7, 2011
Sevenice, founded by Gökçen Karan and Publishing Sponsor of Webrazzi Agenda’s, is becoming a Switzerland company with the investment and start-up capital it has received from Switzerland. The company makes videos for Internet, advertising and presentation videos and corporate apps for Facebook and iPhone, and it will be re-established in Switzerland. Sevenice attended an annually [...]
comScore’s Video Metrix Turkey Report: We Watch More Videos on Facebook Than on YouTube!
No Comment by Fırat Demirel on May 13, 2011
The Turkey report by Video Metrix, the video measurement service of comScore, is now released. The report says that Facebook is the web site where most videos are viewed in Turkey. Google sites come next. Having launched its first services in the USA four years ago, Video Metrix provides measurement of online videos and has [...]
Devrim Demirel’s Angel Investment Savevid.com Acquired
No Comment by Arda Kutsal on January 10, 2011
Devrim Demirel, founder of BerilTech, owner of successful sales of Blogcu.com and TR.TC, has been working day and night for Sirketce.com these days. However, it seems that, unlike what we know, Devrim Demirel has not stopped working, and made a small investment, of which even we got news after the sale. This initiative is called [...]
Sevenload Likes Turkish Market!
One Comment by Ali Altuğ KOCA on December 30, 2009
There are some important developments going on recently in sevenload, which is known as a video service in Turkey, though it considers itself a social network. Sevenload has shown a rapid growth in particularly Turkish market, and is improving itself by not only original content, but also video advertising with the contracts it has signed. [...]
UzmanTV Is Not to Confine Itself to the Internet!
No Comment by Arda Kutsal on December 24, 2009
UzmanTV has implemented important changes in its strategy besides the re-launch it performed in October. With its developments, it will not be right to consider it a mere web initiative, or rather a “video website”. UzmanTV sees itself an Internet television and develops its studies not only on the Internet, but also in mobile and [...]
YouTube Ban Goes To European Court Of Human Rights!
No Comment by Arda Kutsal on December 7, 2009
The Internet Technologies Association (ITD) has taken a concrete step towards the ban of YouTube, the most popular video sharing web site worldwide that has been banned in Turkey for almost 1,5 years. Having tried all other means against the court’s decision to ban access to YouTube in Turkey, ITD brought the case to European [...]
Facebook’s Video Stream and Turkey Stats on the Rise
No Comment by Fırat Demirel on October 29, 2009
Facebook has become more than a social network service with its latest moves and it seems that its growth is unstoppable now. The number of servers Facebook owns has increased to 30 thousand and according to Jeff Rothschild, the vice president of technology at Facebook; Facebook manages more than 25 terabytes of data per day [...]
Film Fresh Started DivX Formatted Movie Sale!
No Comment by Ali Altuğ KOCA on September 18, 2009
As an outcome of mutual work of Film Fresh and DivX, an agreement which allows selling DivX formatted movies of Lionsgate, Paramount, Sony and Warner Bros on the internet was done, and the movies of these four big producers have started to be sold on the Internet. The DivX movies cost anywhere between $9.99 and $14.99 [...]