Pozitron gave us some hope Monitise, a UK-based company that works with the likes of Visa to build and roll out mobile payment solutions, has acquired mobile commerce technology provider Pozitron for $100 million in an all-share deal. According to Ingrid…

If it is not a joke, it is insulting Lately I find myself saying this sentence to myself very frequently: If it is not a joke, it is insulting. For example; on Monday, Prime Minister Erdoğan said that…

The cost of one signature A signature is one of the most personal things that you can have. There are people who can tell you what kind of a person you are just by examining your signature. I…

Resistance to transparency is futile When our prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, talked about the “robot lobby” in his speech at the Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) weekly meeting on Tuesday, I thought I was dreaming. I thought that…

#RemindGezi Social media has very quickly become one the most important fronts in the political wars over the last two years. I would like to use the word “debate” instead of “war,” but the reality is that we are…

You cannot play it down Last week I wrote about the hashtag #Geziyihatırlat (#RecallGezi). This week, the top hashtag is #BerkinElvanÖlümsüzdür (#BerkinElvanisimmortal). Berkin Elvan is the name of a 15-year-old boy who died on Monday (March 10) after being…

Fear leads the way to the dark side I used to think the current government hated the Internet and that was the reason why they do everything in their power to kill it. I thought they hated the…

Is there no hope? Today, in order to tell you about the affairs of the technology and Internet industries in Turkey, all I need to write are three words: Twitter is banned. With these three words, you can…

Use technology for transparency, not for oppression The elections are over and the results are not shocking. I have written many times that I really don’t care who wins as long as everything is orderly and no…