Only one in 100 KMPG announced its Fintech 100 list this week. It reported that the “Fintech100” were selected following extensive global research and analysis based on data relating to five factors. Two of the criteria are related to capital raising, reflecting the emphasis that venture capitalist investors place on the ability…

Not without a phone Turkey is known to have a tech-savvy young population. We like to use our mobile phones a lot. A new research has underlined that we talk about 441 minutes on average every month on our mobiles, whereas the average in the EU is only 160 minutes. We…

Crowdfunding is maturing in Turkey  Crowdfunding has deep roots in the Turkish culture. Many Turkish entrepreneurs turn to their families and friends who are generous investors. If a friend wants to invest in a business, his/her friends usually chip in. In villages, people share daily works and call it “imece.”class="cf"> That’s why I…

Let’s talk about trends, part one   It has reached that time of the year when I write about the possible digital trends of 2018. It is always fun to talk about the future, and when the future arrives, to look back and see if my predictions came true. Last year I said Augmented…

Industry 4.0 and beyond For some time now, the term Industry 4.0 has been discussed widely in the Turkish business community. For some time now, the term Industry 4.0 has been discussed widely in the Turkish business community. class="cf"> Siemens’s vice president Ali Rıza Ersoy was the leader in putting the concept in businesspeople’s…

The year of artificial intelligence   This is the second and the last part of the miniseries I write ahead of 2018. Since any article about predictions will not be completed without Gartner Trends Outlook, today I will write mainly about Gartner Top 10 strategic Technology Trends for 2018. Kasey Panetta writes in…

Will 2018 be the year of China?   We began to talk about China around 40 years ago as a very cheap production hub. Many goods that people around the world used were being produced in China. A few decades later China began to invest in people and started to fund global brands.…

Do we need crazy projects? “Turkey on Jan. 15 unveiled the ‘most appropriate’ route for the planned Canal Istanbul project, an artificial sea-level waterway that would run parallel to the Bosphorus connecting the Black Sea to the Marmara Sea,” Hürriyet Daily News has recently reported.class="cf"> “The Küçükçekmece-Sazlıdere-Durusu corridor has been chosen as the…

The space race Space is the final frontier and there is a race for it. Many countries are trying to increase their capacity to reach for the stars. The latest move has come from India. Almost a year ago in February 2017, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) had launched 104 satellites…