ISIL vs Turkish parties in social media
In the coming years, there will probably be a Harvard Business Review article entitled: “A Case study: ISIL [Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant] on the Iraqi front, a best…
Samsun, Google and Prophetic Medicine
Sometimes the three most unrelated words can tell you a lot about a country when they are found on the news on the same day. Samsun is a city of 605,000 people. It…
486… This number says a lot about Turkey
486 is not the title of a new TV series. It is not the number of a plane that goes to your favorite destination. It is the number of ICT companies…
Will agriculture save high tech companies?
The tables have turned and agriculture, once seen as a low-pay, high-hassle industry compared to technology production, has become the possible savior of many high tech firms, especially in Japan. There are…
Please let Mr. Ciliv relax
Turkcell is known as the crown jewel of the Turkish ICT industry. It is very profitable and it disseminates technology to every corner of the country far better than its rivals. Financially speaking, Turkcell…
Millions change hands in M&A’s
There has not been a better time to own a successful startup. The industry giants are literally racing each other in search of hot new prospects so they can inject them with lots of…
Tolerance, lawfulness and the ICT industry
According to research, you need three T’s for innovation and economic development: Talent, tolerance and technology. It is a concept coined by Richard Florida and I totally agree with it. I base…
Turkey, technology and transparency
Technology is, among other things, is the number one enabler of transparency through the world. If you keep a record of everything in your databases there is no way but to go transparent. That is…
Let’s do e-voting
The voting is over and the winner is Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. However, the aftermath of the voting is still chaotic. Every party that participated in the elections is busy trying to figure out what the results…
