A career of 24 years in tech journalism, Mızrak never regreted to choose journalism For Ahmet Mızrak, journalism is love. “I chose journalism with the predominance of my love at the stage of whether it is a profession where I will earn a lot of […]
Year: 2020
Introducing VCs in Turkey: Boğaziçi Ventures
Barış Özistek believes Turkish start-ups are hardworker, on the other hand, multicultural working environment is weak in the Turkish startup ecosystem, he added As in the most VCs, Boğaziçi Ventures’ first rule is also to consider the team before investing in a start-up. On the […]
Chinese people among top 10 foreign homebuyers in Turkey in H1: TurkStat
They bought more than 400 houses and Belt and Road Initiative helped to increase the interest for homebuyers Chinese nationals bought a total of 415 houses in the January-June period. In June they were in third place with 78 units purchased, announced by Turkish Statistical […]
Card payments soar in H1 amidst COVID-19
Triggered by COVID-19, contactless payments tripled and reached 563 million Payments via debit and credit cards in Turkey increased 10% year-on-year in H1 of this year amidst concerns of COVID-19, according to Interbank Card Center (BKM). “While payment behavior continues to change with the pandemic period, a total of 500 billion Turkish liras […]
Turkish Parliament passes law regulating social media
Social media sites could face fines and have throttled by up to 90 percent The Turkish Parliament passed a law that gives authorities more powers to control social media content last week. The law entails foreign social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook to appoint Turkish-based representatives to […]
Turkish civil servants recommended not to use WhatsApp or Telegram for work
Authorities to opt instead for locally developed applications with servers in control of the agency or with servers located inside Turkey New guidelines from the Turkish Presidency’s Digital Transformation Office (CBDDO) have called for ending the use of popular apps such as WhatsApp and Telegram […]
Introducing Turkish startups: Ekmob
As a SaaS start-up, Ekmob is active in 53 countries and planning to expand more countries Ekmob is a sales force automation tool and focuses on improving productivity of the sales teams. On the other hand, company executives will be able to monitor their teams […]
Digital transformation of Turkish SMEs: research
Turkey’s leading university conducted a survey on the digital transformation of Turkish SMEs The Bogazici University Industry 4.0 platform conducted a survey about digital transformation of the Turkish SMEs, called Tool for Digital Transformation Evaluation of the Turkish SMEs or D3A. The research focused on […]
Number of newly founded companies bounces in June
Around 10 thousand new companies founded while 1.130 of them closed down last month In Turkey 9,719 newly founded companies in June, up 109.34% on a yearly basis, according to Turkish Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges (TOBB). Some 1,130 companies closed down over the month, up […]
Turkey to support Azerbaijan with UAVs, tech and expertise [video]
Azerbaijani government announced that it would purchase UCAVs from Turkey after receiving approval from its Parliament Presidency of Defence Industries (SSB) Chairman Ismail Demir said Turkish defence industry so support Azerbaijan with its unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAV), ammunition, missiles and electronic warfare (EW) systems. […]