Allowance management application reached 40 thousand families and the use of allowances went up 82% since Covid-19 appeared Being Turkey’s first allowance platform, Manibux indicated that the rate of spending allowance online increased by 82% in the last two weeks of March as a result […]
Month: May 2020
Introducing Turkish tech journalists: Levent Pekcan
From Atari 2600 to 3dfx Voodoo Graphics card, from bulletin board systems to TeknoSeyir…Here is Levent Pekcan’s story in tech journalism Levent Pekcan, aka LP, is one of the most veteran tech journalists in Turkey. He said his first contact with technology was an Atari […]
Prisync, Istanbul-based SaaS company to acquire UK competitor
This is the second acquisition of Prisync, following Australian rival, Spotlite in March 2019 Turkey-based SaaS startup Prisync acquired UK-based rival Competitor Price Watch to capture a larger portion of the UK e-commerce pricing software market. In March 2019, the company had acquired its Australian […]
HAVELSAN’s answer to Zoom: Diyalog
The Turkish alternative for Zoom and other video conferencing platforms is on the way HAVELSAN developed Diyalog, a video conference platfrom, to be launched in May. The platform aims to provide a secure medium for video communication. The reason why HAVELSAN developed such a platform […]
EU registers Turkey’s all-electric automobile design
The design to remain valid until 2029 and can be extended upon application European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) registered Turkey’s Automobile Joint Venture (TOGG) as a trademark, country’s first domestic all-electric automobile. Industrial rights provided by EUIPO to remain valid until February 2029, the […]
Turkish e-commerce industry grows 39%, becomes TL 83 billion
E-commerce in Turkey went shiny last year especially with the contribution of marketplaces Turkish e-commerce in 2019 grew 39%, became TL 83 billion (~ USD 12 billion), according the report (link in Turkish) by Informatics Industry Association (TÜBİSAD). “Turkey e-Commerce Market Size Report 2019” is […]
Turkish startups raise USD 20 million in 2020 Q1
SaaS is the star vertical for the investments and no Covid-19 effect in sight for the future investments yet Turkish startups raised USD 19.8 million funding in Q1 2020, according to Startups.watch. As the startups intelligence platform, Startups .watch announced that the Covid-19 effect […]
Digital donations via digital wallet BKM Express reaches TR 10 million
It has been 5 years and BKM Express mediated 400.000 transactions and helped more than 120 NGOs with digital donations Digital donations via BKM Express, Turkey’s digital wallet, reached TR 10 million (USD 1.6 million) in 5 years. Interbank Card Center’s (BKM) digital wallet BKM […]
Huawei Turkey offers 50 million liras to Turkish developers for HMS
HMS is Huawei’s answer to Google Mobile Services and coming strong Huawei Turkey announced to offer 50 million liras (~USD 8.2 million) to Turkish developers for Huawei Mobile Services or HMS. Seth Wang, Huawei Turkey Consumer Electronics Unit Manager, said HMS to become a significant […]
Haven’t read the book about Uber but here’s what I learned
Uber’s toxic work environment unleashed by a former employee, Susan Fowler. She wrote a book after a sexual harassment allegations revealed Susan Fowler, a former site reliability engineer, or SRE, at Uber, published her book on sexual harassment allegations at Uber. The book is called […]