This week’s stories are about tech, sustainability and AI, coming from Japan, Taiwan, the Netherlands and South Africa Sony, TSMC to form $5 billion image sensor JV Sony’s semiconductor unit and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. have signed a binding agreement to establish a $4.7 billion […]
Raising $75 million makes HubX Turkey’s latest unicorn HubX, Turkish mobile apps and web products startup, secured up to $75 million from Point72 Private Investments at a $1.2 billion pre-money valuation, becoming Turkey’s latest unicorn. As a bootstrapped startup, this has been the first external […]
This week’s stories are about tech and AI, coming from the EU and the USA AI talent wars erode loyalty across top research labs Competition among the world’s leading artificial intelligence (AI) companies is fueling a growing retention challenge, as top researchers increasingly move between […]
This week’s stories are about tech, AI and sustainability, coming from the EU and the USA Europe launches €30B AI data center investment program The European Union officially launched a funding initiative to support the construction of seven large-scale artificial intelligence (AI) data centers across […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
