Why PayPal is withdrawing from the Turkish market Not long ago I wrote that Turkey wanted to eliminate physical currency as much as possible and this week PayPal was made to halt its operations in Turkey. What is behind this…

$26.2 billion! I am sure that many of you have heard that Microsoft bought LinkedIn for $26.2 billion. There are many questions to be asked but the first reaction by everyone was one of surprise - $26.2 billion!!Microsoft…

Would you trust software with your health? There are an abundance of creative people in Cannes these days, as Cannes Lions 2016 is being held. Many creative people from many different industries are gathered there to discuss the future…

Security is of paramount importance The term security is one of the key words that we use more often than we would like to. Unfortunately the bombings and attacks like the one experienced at Istanbul’s Atatürk Airport scare us…

Yemeksepeti.com is fined, will others follow? Yemeksepeti.com is the biggest online food delivery platform in Turkey. Recently the company was sold for a staggering $589 million. Last week the company was fined with 427,977 Turkish Liras by the Turkish…

The spectacular revival of Pokémon I was born in 1980 and Pokémon was launched in 1996. So I barely understood the phenomena as I was not a child any more. I realized the characters and the world that the Pokémon…

‘Is Twitter still a menace?’ or ‘The technological side of the coup’ During the Gezi protests in 2013, then-Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan had called all social media outlets, especially Twitter, a menace to society. He said the enemies of the…

Turkish telecommunication infrastructure reloaded Turkey has improved its information and communication technologies (ICT) infrastructure greatly over the years. However, as a country it is still lagging behind many Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries, even though billions…

Failed institutions 1: TİB “For judicial and administrative institutions and other actual and legal individuals to benefit from all the facilities, we serve them the best quality, secure and human-oriented approach to technology. Also we supervise the measurement of…

The importance of human resources I cannot begin to explain how important Türk Telekom is to Turkey. It is not only the sole owner of more than 90 percent of fixed-line communications, it is the monopoly in broadband…