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 [...]
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 [...]
Christian H. Gallardo Talked About ‘The Power of the Graph’ı in Webrazzi Summit
No Comment by Fırat Demirel on November 15, 2011
The last guest of Webrazzi Summit 2011 was Christian Hernandez Gallardo, Facebook’s Head of International Business Development. Gallardo mentioned about the power of Facebook’s social network structure and Turkey’s interest in Facebook in his speech titled “The Power of the Graph”. Gallardo told Turkey’s large internet ecosystem has been further highlighted with global investment companies [...]
Twitter For Good: Changing the World on Twitter
No Comment by Fırat Demirel on November 15, 2011
Claire Diaz Ortiz from Twitter was at Webrazzi Summit 2011 via video conferencing from the US. Ortiz, the author of Twitter for Good, said that Twitter is not merely a social platform but a news sharing tool, adding that the shares on Twitter have a tremendous impression and how this can be used for a good return. Ortiz [...]
Jan Rezab of Socialbakers and The New Generation Marketing at Social Media
No Comment by Ümit Öncel on November 15, 2011
Everybody knows about the effects of social media these days but the real challenge is to measure this effect and thus manage it. Jan Rezab, who attended Webrazzi Summit last year, too, is the founder of the company then called Facebakers and has joined us this year, as well. Socialbakers, as it is now called, [...]
Facebook Platform forms the frame of Social Internet
No Comment by Fırat Demirel on November 15, 2011
I attended the Facebok Platform sessions at Webrazzi Summit which have been going on at a fast pace. During these sessions, where the live broadcast is done quite smoothly if you ask me, the Facebook team provided quite significant facts with nice presentations. Facebook Platform Firstly, Amina Belghiti introduced the Facebook platform. She talked about the [...]
Seedcamp will be in İstanbul at 2012!
No Comment by Ümit Öncel on November 15, 2011
Reshma Sohoni from SeedCamp was among foreign speakers of Webrazzi Summit 2011. Reshma talked about Seedcamp in short and its work model in her presentation. SeedCamp accepts nearly 2000 applications a year, and mentors 200 of them, while makes seed investment to 20 of all applications. SeedCamp has a very fast operating system, and can [...]
European Risk Capital and Turkish Internet Market
No Comment by Ümit Öncel on November 15, 2011
As parallel sessions got started in Webrazzi Summit, interesting topics and speakers have started to take their places in 4 rooms at the same time. In Diamond room, two sessions moderated by Robin Wauters from TechCrunch were held one after the other. In the first session whose topic was European Risk Capital, Robin’s guests were [...]
Sina Afra: Our aim is to reach a valuation of 1 Billion Dollars within 3 Years’ Time
One Comment by Ümit Öncel on November 15, 2011
It was quite an interesting moment when it was mentioned during the interview with Arda Kutsal and Hanzade Doğan Boyner at Webrazzi Summit that Doğan Online has been recently interested in Grupfoni but could not reach an agreement with them. As a coincidence, Ms. Boyner was followed by Sina Afra and as you may guess [...]
Hanzade Doğan Boyner: The turnover of Doğan Online is 700 Million TL
No Comment by Fırat Demirel on November 15, 2011
After Arda Kutsal’s introductory speech and Tümay Asena’s presentation, Webrazzi Summit 2011 hosted Mike Read of ComScore and then continued with an interview with Hanzade Doğan Boyner. Hanzade Doğan Boyner, The CEO of Doğan Online and Doğan Journalism, said that her first internet-based conference in Turkey is Webrazzi Summit and shared important facts. She explained [...]