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Meta Games’ first game Bhalamir: Prologue is at App Store

No Comment by Ali Altuğ KOCA on May 21, 2012 Tweet

The first game of mobile gaming company Meta Games with founders Mehmet Ecevit ile Yağmur Hakan Boğa (founding partners of Sanalika), Bhalamir: Prologue is at App Store as of today.

The game, which has been developed for past few months, is classic hero story from old ages. Our character is Bhalamir, and we are trying to rescue the father of our beloved from a castle full of soldiers upon our promise.

The game is free and offers more features including Turkish language pack, slap combo and super armor, you can get these by in-game payment and add more fun to your gaming experience. I have played the game with Turkish language pack and had a good time, with enemy soldiers saying lines such as “Hold the gates”, ”Freeze” and “Kill him”.

Ersan Özer announced his new start-up Youlike – Webrazzi Startup’12

No Comment by Fırat Demirel on May 20, 2012 Tweet

We knew Ersan Özer was planning to have a new start-up for a long time. Finally today at Webrazzi Startup12 conference, the secret of Youlike.com was revealed.

First of all let me say that the domain name, which was planned to be Sosyo.com for a long time, was changed. The founding partners Ersan Özer, Can Karatoprak, Levent Gültan and investors Burak Divanlıoğlu, Serkan Borançılı and Aydonat Atasever have decided the name to be Youlike, and they have bought domain names Youlike.com and ulike.com. They would not say the price if Arda Kutsal did not push, but we have learned that they have paid 100 thousand dollars for these two domain names.

Yemeksepeti has an unordinary new office

No Comment by Ümit Öncel on May 15, 2012 Tweet

In Start-Up Offices (Girişim Ofisleri) program on Webrazzi TV, we are trying to show you that internet start-ups do not just consist of a web site: the majority of them have interesting and fun working environments.

Each start-up office has distinctive features but some of them are exclusively built to maximize the working pleasure in the office. The best example of its kind is the new office used by Yemeksepeti since March.

When you see the pictures of Yemeksepeti office, designed by architectures Erginoğlu & Çalışlar, you will understand what I mean.

The new office of Yemeksepeti, founded in 2000, was designed in parallel with the employees’ opinions, as the primary aim is to offer an enjoyable and lively working environment for them. While doing so, transparency is prioritized and all rooms, including executive and meeting rooms, have walls made of glass.

Peak Games Grows in the Middle East and Acquires Kammelna

No Comment by Ali Altuğ KOCA on April 27, 2012 Tweet

We have been writing both investment and acquisition news about Peak Games from the day it started, and the company lastly bought a Saudi Arabia gaming company. The social gaming company, Kammelna, has 4 million active users with Baloot, a local card game.

With this acquisition, Peak Games grew stronger in MENA, while the figure Peak Games paid for Kammelna has not been officially disclosed. Meanwhile Wamda, one of the major news sources in MENA, said Peak Games has offered 10 million dollars for Kammelna, but it was based on hearsay information.

When considering the total amount of investment Peak Games has received so far, the income it can make within time, and Kammelna’s assets, we can say that 10 million dollars is a high valuation.

GROU.PS is aiming for the sky with its new team in Turkey

No Comment by Fırat Demirel on April 26, 2012 Tweet

There are still very few Turkish start-ups that extend to global markets, and especially American market. GROU.PS is one of the first Turkish start-ups that have gone international, and it wants to make an impression with its innovations and new steps.

We had a chance to talk to Balamir Nazlıca, the new director of sales and marketing at GROU.PS, and got updated and received information on GROU.PS’ aims for Turkish market.

Webrazzi Database: Turkey Internet ecosystem, all on one address

No Comment by Ali Altuğ KOCA on April 25, 2012 Tweet

Many of our readers had been looking forward to a database that will have all Turkey internet market in one place, and they had shared their expectations with us for this kind of service from time to time. We have met their expectations, and made Webrazzi Database, or Webrazzi VT, the information source with data of companies and people on Turkish Internet market, which only you add and update.

Today we have started Webrazzi Database beta and there are only a few hundred records on it, for the time being. We started to add new records a short while ago, and as of this morning, some of our close friends were informed to add info to the database; and gave us very positive and valuable feedback.

23 April Gesture from Zynga [Video]

No Comment by Ümit Öncel on April 24, 2012 Tweet

Games have gone beyond being exclusive to children for a long time; and average age of online gamers being above 40 is a proof to this fact. Games let us leave our stressful lives behind, providing a “breathing area”, and remind adult people of the children in themselves.

Primary target audience of the world’s largest gaming company Zynga is adults, instead of children. But Zynga did not forget to celebrate the only day for children in the world and published an exclusive video for April 23 National Sovereignty and Children’s Day.

Webrazzi E-Commerce’12 by Numbers

No Comment by Ahmet Can Şit on April 5, 2012 Tweet

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.

Twitter brand pages go online in Turkey

No Comment by Sami Eyidilli on April 2, 2012 Tweet

Twitter brand pages have gone online in Turkey, with Turkcell being the first Turkish company to take place on brand pages. Twitter use bears much importance for brands, and it started last December with 21 giant companies (being Twitter’s partners at first) taking place on brand pages including Coca-Cola, American Express, Dell, McDonalds, Intel and General Electric.

Turkcell switched to brand pages and supported a civil society initiative, which is a very positive contribution. Turkcell placed the motto “Do you have 5 liras for Van?” as soon as it switched to brand pages, asking for support for Turkey Moneybox to help Van.

Influential press members in addition to brands use twitter’s brand pages, and the first to have this kind of page has been M. Serdar Kuzuloğlu a short while ago.

Pabbuc.com grows 500% two years in a row [infograph]

No Comment by Fırat Demirel on March 25, 2012 Tweet

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 and each of them buys 5 pairs of shoes a year. On the other hand, each man buys 2 pairs of shoes a year on Pabbuc.com.