The Turkish retail sector, which recorded $302 billion in 2011, is expected to reach $421 billion in 2015. Internet retail portals are becoming a new favorite among Turkish internet users and shoppers, according to a Deloitte Turkey report. Turkey’s retail sector, which exceeded $302 billion in 2011, is expected to reach $421 billion in 2015, according to the “Retail Sector Analysis” report published yester ...

In parallel to many positive developments in the Turkish industry and business life, the country is now in position to raise hopes for a more successful national informatics sector. In fact it was informed by Turkish Economy Minister Zafer Caglayan that the target of the sector was to to realize an export figüre of US$ 1 billion in the sector by the end of 2013. Caglayan who made some important statements i ...

A survey has shown that the e-commerce marketin Turkey is set to grow substantially due to the wide usage levels of broadband internet and considerable growth of the per capita income in between 2002-2012. Turkey is considered to enjoy a big advantage of possessing a young and technology-addicted population and an internet market of 50 million active users, locally. Judging on the findings as per recent sur ...

Russia based search engine company Yandex is taking swift steps in Turkey to enlargen its market share in a challenge with Google. In this context, Yandex has put into effect new projects to gain millions of new visitors on the net. Based on these projects, Russsian search engine company has started new services for giant football clubs like Galatasaray and Fenerbahçe such as official search engines for sai ...

Like in the rest of the world video-sharing website YouTube is immensely used by millions in Turkey each day. There have been times when the video giant (part of Google) has been in trouble with Turkish authorities on account of tax problems as well as undesired videos on the site insulting Turkey and respected personalities such as Atatürk. After having carried this burden for a long while the Turkish auth ...

Yandex Turkey has signed a partnership agreement with local Internet portal Mynet. Mynet users will use Yandex as their search engine and will be able to search for anything they desire on Turkish web pages. Yandex Turkey Chairman Mehmet Ali Yalçındağ and Mynet Chairman Emre Kurttepeli said at the signing ceremony that the new partnership was the result of their quest to provide customers the highest qualit ...

Turkey is an emerging country with a very young and active population making it one of the most important and attractive spots for IT sector and especially players in the the internet market. Google has long enjoyed a monopole existence in said market - like the rest of the world eexcept for a few countries such as China and Russia. However, American internet giant is now to face a big threat form a very st ...

Turkey is certianly one of the rising stars in the world with its huge human/brain potential as well as production and consumption power. Accordingly the country has been drawing attention of global giants and is in fact one of the most interesting  and appealing markets for hi-tech industries and products. Based on above facts, it is not surprise that companies involved in hi-tech arena chose Turkey as the ...

YANDEX, Russian search engine has achieved great success at homeland and is definitely the leading SE in several Russian speaking countries in the region, by far. It is Russia’s largest search engine and claims to be the most popular site in the Russian-speaking Internet.  In May 2011, Yandex raised $1.3 billion in an initial public offering on the Nasdaq. It was the biggest U.S. IPO for a dotcom since Goog ...

Turkcell General Manager Ciliv states that while Europe was in crisis, they managed to double investments and closed the gap with the West. “We are number one when it comes to population coverage,” says Ciliv. Turkcell General Manager Süreyya Ciliv was a guest on a television program entitled "İş'te Hayat", broadcasted on aHaber. Emphasizing that during the period of time when the world entered into the eco ...

Yandex to capture 20 percent of Turkish market Yandex Turkey Chair Yalçındağ is confident that Yandex could capture 20 pct of the local market in three to five years. Russian search engine Yandex is getting ready to provide stiff competition to internet search engine Google, which currently dominates 100 percent of the Turkish market. With its new office and new Chair Mehmet Ali Yalçındağ, Yandex Turkey wil ...

A Short Article About Customer Satisfaction (dissatisfaction actually) for Vodafone Turkey The most cruical point in marketing has been "CRM" (Client Relations Management) in the recent decade. In fact this business expression is much more meaningful in countries with better educated customers who also possess  a higher sense of consciousness. Companies worldwide spend billions of dollars to make sure they ...

With hundreds of millions of websites on the internet today almost millions of individuals as well as companies with a little awareness of the advantages a webpage could provide are ready to jump into this immense sector.Having an acceptable webpage built might be considered a challenging issue but what is even more challenging (if not risky) is finding the right hosting company to put your site up on the W ...

On his trip to the USA, Turkish President Abdullah Gül has paid visits to major IT and High Tech companies in SILICON VALLEY which is located in the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California, USA. The region is home to many of the world's largest technology corporations.President Gul paid visits to Facebook and Microsoft centers in Silicon Valley, California, on Thursday. Gul’s firs ...

Researchers at Samsung are currently working on a device that could solve language barrier problems. The gadget will be able to understand the language and evaluate what has been said. The translation will then be shown on the screen. The system will make an instant translation, and it is possible that in the near future we can witness the appearance of a technology that will allow people around the world t ...

Ballroom International Network acquires the biggest independent Digital Media Sales Group in Turkey, founded by Orkun Tekin. By this acquisition, it is going to be the largest independent digital, technological and advertising network in Central and Eastern Europe and Turkey. •Ballroom is acquiring 100% of 3 companies, Reklamz A.S, Linkz A.S, SEM A.S. Having over 70 associated employees, The Group Companies ...

Some believe that Turkey has covered great distance in internet usage ... Because for instance they believe Turks now rank among the very top group in watching videos, sharing pictures and videos and “sophisticated comments and messages” on Facebook and also writing on Twitter. The case is much different however, reports have shown…Internet celebrating its 20 th year in Turkey, experts have diverse opinions ...

The world has to prepare for the future of the digital world and how to interact with the already-emergent online generation, according to participants meeting at a digital conference yesterday. “The power of the digital nation was functional yesterday; tomorrow it will be cultural. Technology has changed the balance of forces empowering the individual,” Doğan Online Founder and Chairwoman Hanzade Doğan Boy ...

Doğan Online (part of giant Doğan  group in Turkey) has started a new inititative and organized a conference to host everybody involved in online sector somehow; internet users, organizations in the sector, opinion leaders, think tanks, creators, investors, entrepreneurs etc. The group has realized this event under the slogan "Meet The Online Generation:Generation Do it Onliners, GDOL" GDOL Digital TalkFest ...

While surfing on the net a short time ago , I came across a wonderful online photo editing program called PICNIK.COM. This program has amazing features to help creat wonderful pics. Yet, the problem is that the website is going to close down on April 19th 2012 as it is bought by Google and people are supposed to be using it with Google plus under Creative Kit name after that date. Well, so far so good.. We ...

Global Attendance and Conference Addressees The first global summit for the Islamic social network has taken place in the stunning Ciragan Palace, Kempinski, Istanbul on Monday February 13th. Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkish Premier, attended with a message of support to the summit which was represented by more than 250 delegates from 40 Muslim countries from across the globe including Turkey, Saudi Arabia and ...

Turkey has that most scarce, yet highly sought-after, attribute among European economies: growth. With this rising tide, is now the time for investors to be contemplating Turkey's growing Internet economy? Certainly the statistics look good.  According to the European Union, Turkey's real gross-domestic-product growth for 2010 was 9%, compared to just 2% for the 27 EU members. It is forecasted that growth f ...

Thank to its very good image in the international arena and a stable, growing economy and young population quite a few entrepreneurs have decided to start businesses in Turkey, recently. Another good reason to support the idea Turkey is eligible for new investments (and in IT sector in specific) is this country has so many talented young engineers that follow the rapid changes in technology very closely. Am ...