This weekend’s food is about a female software developer’s experiences in Silicon Valley in 90s and Stanley Kubrick’s iconic film Close to the Machine (Ellen Ullman) Ellen Ullman’s Close to the Machine book describes the life and work of a software engineer in the Silicon […]
Introducing Turkish startups: Vispera
Vispera’s computer vision technology helps retailers to increase sales and productivity It is unusual for Turkish academicians to start business as they are working at the university. But Prof. Dr. Aytül Erçil started two businesses, while one of them has been acquired by a German […]
Introducing Turkish tech journalists: Timur Sırt
A 29 years career as a journalism, Timur Sırt nowadays focuses on entrepreneurs and startups Timur Sırt is one of the most experienced tech journalists in Turkey. Having started journalism at Datamation Magazine’s Turkish edition in 1991, his first contact technology was with an Atari. […]
Facebook and Teyit are expanding their fact-checking partnership to Azerbaijan, following Turkey
International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) certified Teyit will review news stories in Azerbaijani on Facebook, check their facts, and rate their accuracy Facebook and Teyit announced today that they have extended their fact-checking partnership, aimed at helping prevent the spread of fake news on Facebook platforms […]
Danish team.blue acquires Natro, Turkish hosting company
Turkey’s leading hosting startup acquired by Danish competitor Team.blue, a Danish hosting company, announced to Natro, a Turkish hosting business. team.blue will acquire 100% of the Natro shares from its current owners, Tolga Kabakçı and Hüseyin Caymaz. Natro has 70 employees in the Instanbul office […]
Turkish 3D body analysis startup DigiME raised TL 3.8 million
DigiME aims to become one of the leading big data startups in health-tech by continuing its global expansion with the new investment DigiME, which provides high accuracy 3D body analysis with its artificial intelligence supported software, completed its second investment round with a valuation of 15 […]
One book, one film: The Second Machine Age and The Social Network
Your weekend food is back with David Fincher’s film and Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee’s book The Second Machine Age: understanding the economics of future Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee’s The Second Machine Age is trying to understand what the economics of the future will […]
Cybertonica partners with Extra Loyalty, a Turkish startup
With the new partnership, Cybertonica extends its reach into retail, loyalty fraud protection and accesses markets in Eastern Europe, the Near East and Africa Cybertonica, a risk and fraud management platform using advanced data science techniques to meet the challenges in payments and fintech of […]
Introducing Turkish startups: Piri
Piri is a digital tour guide app to solve problems that arises people encountered during their trips Piri is an audio walking tour app that lets tourists to explore a city with the top level tur guides. Piri identifies your location by using GPS and […]
TPAY Mobile acquires Payguru, a Turkish fintech
MEA’s leading dgital merchant acquirer acqires Turkey’s one of the major payment service providers TPAY MOBILE, digital merchant acquirer and mobile payment enabler in the Middle East and Africa (MEA), announced the acquisition of 100% of the shares of Payguru, one of Turkey’s leading payment […]