Having founded last year, Loom Games’s Pixel Flow! already surpassed 10 million global players Mobile gaming company Scopely acquires a majority stake in Loom Games, the Istanbul-based developer of the mobile puzzle title Pixel Flow!, at a valuation of $1 billion. The game, launched in […]
Temu’s Turkish subsidiary, WhaleCo Turkey Teknoloji, will handle imports directly Temu resumed sales in Türkiye under a new import structure after briefly suspending cross-border shipments earlier this month. The halt followed a government move to end simplified customs procedures for goods valued below €30. During […]
This week’s stories are about tech, AI and chips, coming from Korea, Netherlands and the USA Global chip sales to reach $1 trillion Global semiconductor sales are on track to reach $1 trillion this year, driven by surging demand tied to artificial intelligence (AI) The […]
Uber adds Getir’s food, grocery, retail and water delivery services to the portfolio Uber Technologies agreed to acquire Getir’s delivery operations in Türkiye, expanding its presence in the country’s fast-growing on-demand market. No financial terms of the deal have been announced. The deal covers Getir’s […]
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 […]
The three operators received fines due to service outage during the earthquake in Istanbul Information and Communication Technologies Authority (BTK), Turkey’s watchdog for telco industry, fined Turkcell, Türk Telekom and Vodafone Turkey over their service outage during an earthquake struck Istanbul in Sept 2019. […]
Ömer Barbaros Yiş started his career at academia and continued at telecom business Ömer Barbaros Yiş, CMO at Turkcell, departed the company. Turkcell announced the departure at Public Disclosure Platform (KAP) on Apr 17 and it went into effect immediately. F. Alper Ergenekon, Turkcell’s Stragety […]
You can hide the loss in the press release but not on official docs Teknosa, consumer electronics retailer, posted TRY 148 million (~USD 24.2 million) loss for 2019 Q4. The loss for 2018 was TRY 64 million (~USD 10.5 million). The company’s sales reached TRY […]
Number of digital banking customers went up 21% last year Turkey has 53 million digital banking customers by the end of 2019, The Banks Association of Turkey (TBB) announced. That is 6% higher as compared to 2019 Q3 and 21% by 2018 Q4. Retail internet […]
I attended a press conference and here is what I learned My job is not only reporting and I’m observing the things around me, which is especially about my job. So here we go: I have been invited to a press conference by Asus in […]
The siblings’ new mobile game now at the service of gamers. New adventure takes place in London ‘They are’ Simay Dinç and Eray Dinç and they are the producers of Recontact:Istanbul and Recontact:Istanbul Eyes of Sky, mobile games offering different experiences with cinematographic images. Those […]
Wish you good luck in such a difficult media scene Fast Company, world’s leading innovation in technology, leadership and design magazine, started the Turkish edition by Feb. Rauf Ateş, former publisher of Capital, Ekonomist and CEO Life magazines, is the editor-in-chief and the founder of […]
Following Sergio Rocha’s appointment as COO in Nov. 2019, TOGG hired CMO to accelerate sales and marketing activities Turkey’s Automobile Joint Venture (TOGG) hires Talin Yıldız as CMO. Talin Yıldız took over the role by April 1st and she will lead the sales and marketing […]
Turkish data exploration and visualization start-up acquired by Amazon Amazon acquired Datarow, a Turkish data exploration and visualization start-up. Eren Baydemir, who co-founded the start-up with Can Abacıgil in 2017, tweeted to confirm the acquisition. “A new chapter begins for DataRow today. Our team is […]
