Turkcell brings hyperscale cloud to Turkey with Google Cloud, promising $1 billion investment

Through the $1 billion investment, Turkcell to handle sales and marketing of the services offered in the cloud region Turkish telecommunications and technology company Turkcell announced a strategic partnership with Google Cloud to form a new cloud region in Turkey. Under the agreement, Google Cloud […]

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Top 3 tech, startup and sustainability stories of the week, Nov 3-7, 2025

This week’s stories are about tech, AI and sustainability, coming from Korea and the USA AI dominates the headlines, ads are still the real growth engine for Big Tech Fresh quarterly results from Meta, Amazon, Alphabet and Microsoft highlighted the ongoing strength in their digital […]

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Uber launches technology center in Turkey, investing $200 million

This is Uber’s fourth technology center outside of United States Uber plans to invest $200 million in Türkiye over the next five years to establish a new global technology development hub in Istanbul, the company announced. The site will become Uber’s fourth tech center outside […]

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Top 3 tech, startup and sustainability stories of the week, Oct. 27-31, 2025

This week’s stories are about tech, AI and autonomous vehicles, coming from Switzerland and the USA Governments struggle to scale Gen AI adoption, study finds A growing number of governments are experimenting with generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT and CoPilot, but most […]

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Top 3 tech, startup and sustainability stories of the week, July 14-18, 2025

This week’s stories are about tech, AI and coming from Europe and the USA 1-EU’s fight against disinformation: ChatEurope A coalition of prominent European news organizations unveiled ChatEurope, a multilingual chatbot designed to fight disinformation by delivering fact-checked journalism on European affairs. I saw this […]

Top 3 tech, startup and sustainability stories of the week, 9th – 13rd June, 2025

This week’s stories are about tech, AI and legaltech, coming from Chile, UK and USA 1-OpenAI reaches 3 million paying business users OpenAI,  the company behind ChatGPT,  announced it has surpassed 3 million paying business users, marking a 50% jump since February, as the artificial […]

Trendyol to build datacenter of USD500 million in Ankara

An investment to serve to hyperscale operators, cloud service providers, and domestic enterprises Turkish e-commerce giant Trendyol announced a strategic partnership with UAE-based Castle Investments to develop a state-of-the-art data center in Ankara, aimed at bolstering the region’s digital infrastructure. Dubbed the “Ankara Data Hub,” […]