#App Development Companies in Istanbul

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 — it seems that [ hasan keskin ] has entered the scene ! he looks exactly like [ can yaman ]. this [ 35-year-old ] is the [ major shareholder ] of [ app-h inc. ]. it’s a small wonder since he is known for being [ ambitious & confident ] and [ arrogant & greedy ]. he has been involved with the company for [ 6 ] years. 

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name : hasan keskin age : thirty-five years old height : 188 cm / 6'2" gender : cis man, he/him sexual orientation : straight status : single children : two — 10 years old — 3 years old

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schooling: massachusetts institute of technology

born and raised in istanbul. older brother to feyza and their two younger siblings. during his childhood and teen years, his life revolved around football. his dream just like every young boy his age was to be a football player until one christmas he was gifted a psp. he became obsessed with video games and no longer as infatuated with football.

later his interest grew to fascination. how were these games created? what goes into making a gaming console? how long does it take to create something like this?

once finding out what it required to become a game developer, he started taking school more seriously. it was a great surprise to his parents to find him excelling in his studies even though it was due to his obsession with video games. they couldn't tell him to reduce his playing time solely due to the fact he was getting amazing grades.

after university, his career was flourishing, working under companies like ubisoft, and EA who have all created his favourite games. — but just as thing were getting good, in 2014 he gets his situationship pregnant and he had just blown most of his money on contributing to the ethereum crowdfund and bitcoin, which had horrible returns for the rest of the year. he kept his situation hidden from his family. they didn't need to know.

two years later when feyza had approached him to invest into app-h inc., he was reluctant. now that he's responsible for a child, he's convinced he needed to take less risks. it wasn't responsible living a lifestyle of big rewards or big losses. although photograpp-h is doing amazing, it didn't guarantee app-h inc., would do well.

he came clean about the child and how he would have immediately agreed if it wasn't for the child. he didn't express his other concerns since it didn't seem relevant and he didn't want to pessimistic considering he wasn't in the position to lecture or give advice to his sister who was doing better than him.

with bitcoin crashing even more significantly in 2018, he was desperate for fast cash. he was doing well for himself, but not enough to maintain the lifestyle he created for himself and the lifestyle he's grown accustomed to. he reached out to his sister and asked if the offer was still on the table. feyza suggested he buy shares now that they were more established and she would trust him in that position rather than some fancy investor in a suffocating suit.

without much of a thought, he agreed. if this went to shit, he would put everything into a high interest savings account and never invest anything until he earned the amount he desires.

in the next two years everything moved so fast. app-h inc., was turning over a high profit, catching up to comoedia and the bulletin — and bitcoin reached an all time high ending the year at around 20k per bitcoin. with the amount of money he had, he didn't need to work anymore.

he left america and moved to london to be closer with his siblings. his involvement with app-h inc. increased. his position is merely an advisory role and helps with day to day production while coming and going as he pleases.

[feyzakeskin]

𝐅𝐄𝐘𝐙𝐀 𝐊𝐄𝐒𝐊𝐈𝐍 — 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚌𝚝𝚘 𝚘𝚏 𝚊𝚙𝚙-𝚑 𝚒𝚗𝚌.

[ ! ] — it seems that [ FEYZA KESKIN ] has entered the scene ! she looks exactly like [ neslihan atagül ]. this [ 33-year-old ] is the [ cto ] of [ APP-H INC. ]. it’s a small wonder since she is known for being [ passionate + eclectic ] and [ short-sighted + self-involved ]. she has been involved with the company for [ 8 ] years. [ ADMIN MADDE | 26 | SHE+HER | GMT+3 ]

𝐛𝐢𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐲.

feyza was born in istanbul, turkey. she was the second child in the family and eventually became a big sister to two younger siblings. growing up, she felt like everything about her life was average. her family wasn't wealthy but they weren't poor. she wasn't an only child but she didn't have a small army's worth of siblings. she didn't get the best grades but she didn't get the worst grades. she wasn't the most popular girl in class but she wasn't bullied. everything about feyza keskin was so average that it nearly drove her mad as a teenager.

feyza wanted to be something remarkable. she wanted people to remember her laugh or smile, remember what she had to say. she wanted to have cool stories to share. she wanted people to think that her life had substance. she needed to prove to the world that she wasn't just one of many but an unique soul, a one of a kind person.

becoming a computer science major did not exactly fit with feyza's idealistic dreams but it was the one thing she felt like she was better than average at. she liked coding, she had a terrible posture from sitting at her computer for hours, and she liked how black and white computer science was.

but... the studies did not exactly suit feyza. her classes were long and boring and she felt like they were being taught unimportant things or things any self-taught coder had learned ages ago. she got frustrated and bored and before she knew it, she had dropped out before even finishing the second semester.

in search of meaning and stories, feyza moved to london. the move happened against her parents' wishes who thought london was too dangerous a place for a 20-year-old who knew nothing about the real world. they were also horrified by feyza's decision to drop out of uni. she bid them farewell and packed her backs. life was too short for worrying about practicalities!

feyza worked in retail and did her fair share of odd jobs every now and then in order to be able to afford the one room she was renting in southeast london. her life wasn't exactly fun with all the work but it was exciting. being in a new country all alone was exciting and it made her feel like the opportunities were endless.

in order to earn a bit of extra money, feyza did a lot of coding as a freelancer. she found her best friends in those circles as well: a group of 20-something-year-olds who were all a bit lost and poor.

eventually one thing lead to another and their little group of friends began to develop their first app. their little joke of a project grew bigger than they ever could have imagined. they were excited when they hit one hundred users, ecstatic when they hit their first thousand, and outs of their minds when photograpp-h had half a million downloads.

2014 was a year of changes. feyza had money to move into a real apartment, she finally had a salary hig enough to save up money. it's mostly thanks to app-h inc.'s ceo and cfo that photograpp-h became a money making machine. they worked hard to keep business afloat, they went on to build an empire, and feyza just followed along and worked on improving their products. occasionally she feels like an impostor whenever compared to her two friends who look like business masterminds to her.

creative work was for feyza. she liked problem solving, she liked picking colors... she did not enjoy long meetings with serious men in suits, she did not enjoy rubbing elbows with rich strangers, and she did not know how to appear sophisticated and educated in a crowd of eton alumni. she left the limelight to her friends. now that she was surrounded by people who knew nothing about the concept of average, she realized she liked the safety and modesty.

feyza's not much of a schemer but she is competitive as hell ! it's the only reason why her teeth are sharp, and why she's still in the game. money matters little to her now that she has plenty of it... but having the best products, the most impressive portfolio, and the coolest conglomerate is important to her. it keeps her going and gives her life substance.

𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬.

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Tuesday, March 23, 2021

Drug companies defend vaccine monopolies in face of global outcry (Washington Post) Abdul Muktadir, the chief executive of Bangladeshi pharmaceutical maker Incepta, has emailed executives of Moderna, Johnson & Johnson, and Novavax offering his company’s help. He said he has enough capacity to fill vials for 600 million to 800 million doses of coronavirus vaccine a year to distribute throughout Asia. He never heard back from any of them. The lack of interest has left Muktadir worried about prolonged coronavirus exposure for millions of citizens of Bangladesh and other low-income nations throughout Asia and Africa who are at the back of the global queue for shots. Drug companies have rebuffed entreaties to face the emergency by sharing their proprietary technology more freely with companies in developing nations. The companies are lobbying the Biden administration and other members of the World Trade Organization against any erosion of their monopolies on individual coronavirus vaccines that are worth billions of dollars in annual sales. The fights over vaccine supply are not just over a moral duty of Western nations to prevent deaths and illness overseas. Lack of supply and lopsided distribution threaten to leave entire continents open as breeding grounds for coronavirus mutations. Those variants, if they prove resistant to vaccines, could spread anywhere in the world, including in Western countries that have been vaccinated first.

Colorado marks latest mass tragedy after 10 killed (AP) A shooting at a crowded Colorado supermarket that killed 10 people, including the first police officer to arrive, sent terrorized shoppers and workers scrambling for safety and stunned a state that has grieved several mass killings. A lone suspect was in custody, authorities said. The attack in Boulder, about 25 miles (40 kilometers) northwest of Denver and home to the University of Colorado, stunned a state that has seen several mass shootings, including the 1999 Columbine High School massacre and the 2012 Aurora movie theater shooting. Monday’s midafternoon attack was the seventh mass killing this year in the U.S., following the March 16 shooting that left eight people dead at three Atlanta-area massage businesses, according to a database compiled by The Associated Press, USA Today and Northeastern University.

COVID-19 strikes Brazil’s Congress as third senator dies (Reuters) A third senator has died of COVID-19 in Brazil, raising questions around precautions taken in the country’s Congress where as many as one-in-three lawmakers has been infected with the virus devastating Latin America’s largest nation. Senator Major Olimpio, a former policeman who backed and later fell out with far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, was declared brain dead on Thursday by doctors at a Sao Paulo hospital where he had been in intensive care for three weeks. Brazil has become the epicenter of the pandemic, with by far the highest current daily death toll anywhere in the world. “People are very scared, and they are afraid to go to work,” said Silvio Ribas, a press secretary for Senator Lasier Martins, a 78-year-old politician who was released from hospital on Thursday after two weeks fighting COVID-19. At least 145 of the 513 members of the lower house have tested positive for the coronavirus in the past 12 months, along with 31 of 81 senators, according to a survey by news portal Poder360.

Spain hopes number of foreign tourists will rebound to half pre-pandemic level this year (AP) Spain hopes the number of foreign tourists visiting its sun-kissed islands and picturesque villages can rebound this year to half pre-pandemic levels, Tourism Minister Reyes Maroto said on Monday. “Maybe the ideal goal is ... to get half of the tourists we had in 2019. This, for the industry, would be an achievement,” she said in an event held by Europa Press news agency. In 2019, Spain had the world’s second highest number of foreign visitors at more than 80 million. This plummeted by more than 80% to 19 million tourists in 2020, the lowest level since 1969, as a result of the travel restrictions imposed to curb the pandemic. Tourism accounted for around 12% of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2019 and one job in eight.

Court orders French celebrity magazine to pay homeless man €40,000 (Le Parisien/France) Since its founding in 1949, the iconic French weekly Paris Match has published countless photos of the rich and powerful—and every now and then, a paparazzi shot might cost them. Last week, instead, the magazine was ordered to pay serious money to a homeless man for running a photograph of him without his permission. A court in Nanterre, west of Paris, ordered Paris Match to pay 40,000 euros to the man for running his picture. “Everyone, no matter their degree of celebrity, their wealth, their present or future occupation, has a right to privacy and enjoys exclusive right over their image which allows them to oppose its use […] without prior authorization,” the court wrote in its decision. The photo, published without the man’s consent in January 2018, showed the unnamed 48-year-old smoking crack cocaine on a metro platform in the French capital’s 18th arrondissement. Unlike other people in the photograph, his face was unblurred, the daily Le Parisien reports. Alerted by friends who recognized him in the Paris Match article, the homeless man sued the magazine: In May 2019, the magazine was ordered to pay him 10,000 euros in damages, but failed to remove the photograph from its website and app, resulting in an additional 30,000-euro fine last week. Le Parisien quoted the man as saying that he used some of the money to “help out friends” and that he now may be able “to get [his] wife and children back.”

Merkel Seeks Four-Week Lockdown Extension in German Setback (Bloomberg) Chancellor Angela Merkel proposed keeping German lockdown restrictions in force for another four weeks after Covid-19 cases rose beyond a level that may prompt government action to avoid health-care overload. The plan would extend and slightly tighten existing curbs through April 18, according to a chancellery draft seen by Bloomberg. Merkel and regional government leaders will discuss the proposals on Monday during talks on how to proceed with the lockdown amid an upward curve of infections in Europe’s biggest economy.

Russia’s top diplomat starts China visit with call to reduce U.S. dollar use (Reuters) Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov began a visit to China on Monday with a call for Moscow and Beijing to reduce their dependence on the U.S. dollar and Western payment systems to push back against what he called the West’s ideological agenda. Lavrov, on a two-day visit to China, is expected to hold talks with his Chinese counterpart at a time when both countries’ ties with the administration of U.S. President Joe Biden are badly strained. U.S. and Chinese officials on Friday concluded what Washington called “tough and direct” talks in Alaska, while Russia’s ambassador arrived back in Moscow on Sunday for consultations after Biden said he believed President Vladimir Putin was a killer. Russia is also braced for a new round of U.S. sanctions over what Washington says was its meddling in the 2020 U.S. presidential election, which Moscow denies. Speaking to Chinese media before the start of his visit, Lavrov said Moscow and Beijing were compelled to develop independently of Washington in order to thwart what he said were U.S. attempts to curb their technological development. “We need to reduce sanctions risks by bolstering our technological independence, by switching to payments in our national currencies and global currencies that serve as an alternative to the dollar,” Lavrov said, according to a transcript of his interview released on Monday. “We need to move away from using international payment systems controlled by the West.”

Turkey’s turmoil (Foreign Policy) U.S. President Joe Biden joined with Europe to condemn Turkey over its decision to annul its ratification of an international treaty on preventing violence against women. Turkey’s exit from the treaty, known as the Istanbul Convention, brought thousands to Turkey’s streets in protest of the move. Turkey was one of the initial signatories and the first nation to ratify the convention. In a White House statement, Biden called the action “deeply dissappointing” and a “disheartening step backward.” The Turkish presidency released a statement on Sunday saying the convention had been “hijacked by a group of people attempting to normalize homosexuality.” Turkey’s currency was also rocked on Saturday after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan fired central bank governor Naci Agbal. The Turkish lira fell 15 percent against the U.S. dollar after the news broke.

In Myanmar’s hinterland, army uproots ethnic Karen villagers (AP) In the jungles of southeast Myanmar, the army was shooting and otherwise oppressing civilians long before last month’s military coup. This largely unseen repression continues even now. In the country’s remote southeast, an army offensive has driven as many as 8,000 ethnic Karen people to flee their homes in what aid groups say is the worst upheaval there for nearly 10 years. They’re now living in the jungle, with fears growing for their health and security, and no prospect of an early return. This crisis in the borderlands has been overshadowed by the deadly crackdown on the mass movement protesting the military’s takeover of power from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi. But it also is a reminder of the brutal force Myanmar’s army has long used against civilians, and in particular the country’s ethnic minorities.

Think Covid’s Messed Up Your Travel Plans? Try Getting Into China. (NYT) Leave your partner and children behind. Quarantine for up to a month. Get inoculated with a Covid-19 vaccine from China, if you can find one. And prepare yourself for an anal swab. For the past year, people trying to go to China have run into some of the world’s most formidable barriers to entry. To stop the coronavirus, China bans tourists and short-term business travelers outright, and it sets tough standards for all other foreigners, even those who have lived there for years. The restrictions have hampered the operations of many companies, separated families and upended the lives of thousands of international students. Global companies say their ranks of foreign workers in the country have dwindled sharply. At a time of strained tensions with the United States and other countries, China is keeping itself safe from the pandemic. At the same time, it risks further isolating its economy, the world’s second-largest, at a moment when its major trade partners are emerging from their own self-imposed slumps. Other countries have their own travel restrictions, though few are as tight.

Dozens of towns isolated by flooding in Australian state (AP) Hundreds of people have been rescued from floodwaters that have isolated dozens of towns in Australia’s most populous state New South Wales and forced thousands to evacuate their homes as record rain continues to inundate the country’s east coast. Around 18,000 people had been evacuated from flooding in New South Wales by Monday and emergency services feared up to 54,000 people could be displaced with rain forecast to continue until Wednesday. A year ago, vast swathes of New South Wales had been charred by unprecedented wildfires following years of drought that gripped most of the state. Some of the same areas were now being by inundated by one-in-50-year and one-in-100-year rain events. New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian said up to 38 parts of the state had been declared natural disaster areas. “I don’t know any time in our state’s history where we have had these extreme weather conditions in such quick succession in the middle of a pandemic,” Berejiklian told reporters. “So, they are challenging times for New South Wales.”

Israel revokes permit of Palestinian foreign minister (Washington Post) Israel on Sunday revoked the VIP permit of the Palestinian foreign minister after he returned to the West Bank from a trip to the International Criminal Court in the Hague, Israeli and Palestinian officials confirmed. The move appeared to be Israeli retaliation for Palestinian support for the ICC’s war crimes investigation against Israel. A Palestinian official said Foreign Minister Riad Malki was stopped Sunday as he entered the West Bank from Jordan through the Israeli-controlled crossing. Malki’s VIP card was seized, the official said. Losing the VIP status makes it harder for him to move through Israeli military checkpoints in the West Bank, and traveling abroad will require Israeli permission. The ICC’s chief prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, announced earlier this month that she was opening an investigation into possible war crimes by Israel committed in the occupied West Bank and blockaded Gaza Strip.

Small, cheap spy satellites mean there’s no hiding place (Economist) In the middle of last year, Ecuadorians watched with concern as 340 foreign boats, most of them Chinese, fished just outside the Exclusive Economic Zone (eez) around their country’s westernmost province, the Galapagos Islands. The law of the sea requires such vessels to carry gps-based automatic identification systems (ais) that broadcast where they are, and to keep those systems switched on. Some boats, however, failed to comply. This regular radio silence stoked fears that the boats concerned were sneaking into Ecuador’s waters to plunder its fish. Both local officials and China’s ambassador to Ecuador denied this, and said all the boats were sticking to the rules. In October, however, HawkEye 360, a satellite operator based in Virginia, announced it had detected vessels inside Ecuador’s eez on 14 occasions when the boats in question were not transmitting ais. HawkEye’s satellites could pinpoint these renegades by listening for faint signals emanating from their navigation radars and radio communications. HawkEye’s satellites are so-called smallsats, about the size of a large microwave oven. They are therefore cheap to build and launch. HawkEye deployed its first cluster, of three of them, in 2018. They are now in an orbit that takes them over both of Earth’s poles. This means that, as the planet revolves beneath them, every point on its surface can be monitored at regular intervals. Quilty Analytics, a research firm in Florida, expects the number of radio-frequency (rf) intelligence satellites of this sort in orbit to multiply from a dozen at the beginning of January to more than 60 by the end of next year.

Whoopsie, container overboard (Wired) Since November, at least 2,980 containers have fallen off cargo ships in the Pacific Ocean, in at least six incidents that have outfitted Davy Jones’ Locker with stocks of vacuum cleaners, frozen shrimp, some Kate Spade swag and more. Rising imports and bad weather have led to the above-typical cargo losses, as the 2,980 lost in the past few months is over twice the annual amount lost from 2008 to 2019. Bad weather is the main cause: the Essen attributed its 750 lost containers to “heavy seas,” the Eindhoven lost 260 containers after a blackout in the middle of a storm, and the Apus lost over 1,800 containers in gale force winds and large swells, one of the worst losses ever.

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Take Off İstanbul Day # 3: The Big Day for Startups

Take Off İstanbul Day 3 was very excited for startups. 50 startups selected with mentor votes made their presentation on Day 3. Startups in different verticals made their pitch deck to the jury of the leading Turkish and global mentors in different sectors. Besides that, presentations of Google and Invest in Turkey was pretty catchy for participants.

Why Invest In Turkey

Take Off İstanbul #DAY 3 started with Chief Project Director of Invest in Turkey Necmettin Kaymaz’s presentation. He talked about investing in Turkey and the support of the government for entrepreneurs. At the end of the presentation, Necmettin Kaymaz answered participants’ questions.

Google Training Session

Day 3 also included a Google training session in the afternoon. Trainer Devrim Ekmekçi was up first to talk about Measuring and Targeting for Startups, where he gave valuable recommendations on usage of Adwords & analytics, KPI Dashboards, and measurement of campaigns. Next up was trainer Yusuf Sarıgöz, who introduced Qwiklabs, Google’s online Cloud Training portal, before completing a hands-on session on Machine Learning.

Would you like to try Qwiklabs and receive Google Cloud training for free? Google has set up Cloud Study Jam-a-thon where you can learn more about Kubernetes, Machine Learning and BigQuery alongside many other Cloud concepts – enroll for free through this address (in Turkish) https://events.withgoogle.com/cloud-study-jam-a-thon/

Startup Pitches

In the afternoon, startup pitches are started. 49 semi-finalist startups made their pitch deck to the jury of the leading Turkish and global mentors in different sectors.

The semi-finalist startups that made a presentation are:

Auto Train Brain

Auto Train Brain improves the cognitive abilities of dyslexics at home reliably Website: www.autotrainbrain.com

Bren

Flexible Hybrid Nanogenerator running entirely industrial IoT device and wireless sensor without using a battery with battery-less sensor mode

Car4Future

Energy sharing network and transfer hardware developed with blockchain technology for electric vehicles and autonomous cars. Website: car4future.tech

Comparisonator

Comparisonator is a unique tool to compare players’ and teams’ performance data around the world. It assists scouts, sports directors, coaches, agents and players to make better and quicker decisions. Website: https://www.comparisonator.com

ConnectION

Connect-ION attracts attention to being an enterprise that starts out to transform about 1 billion cars in the world without autonomous vehicle technology to an autonomous car. It is aimed to make it available for non-autonomous vehicle owners to have an autonomous vehicle after an easy installation procedure without throwing their current car investments away. Website: www.connect-ion.tech

eMahkeme

“eMahkeme Online Incompatibility Solution Portal” aims to solve users’ judicial problems fast, safely and economically. Website: https://www.emahkeme.com.tr/

Fanaliz

Fanaliz helps companies measure credit risk in an easy, flexible and affordable way by applying algorithms based on data analytics. Website: https://www.fanaliz.com

FilameX

FilameX is a mini filament machine focused on the recycling of waste plastics and filaments to high-quality filaments. Website: https://www.3dfilamex.com/

HEXTECH GREEN

Develops and produces smart agriculture machines aim for indoor agriculture technology. Website: hextechgreen.com

Iltema

We are an R&D company that dealing with technical textiles and brings an innovative approach to heating needs in industrial areas, make them available for OEMs to reach the end-users. Website: www.iltema.com.tr

InMapper

inMapper is an interactive indoor map platform for large buildings such as airports,malls, offices. Website: https://inmapper.com/

Karbonol

Fuel from Cigarette Butt: Karbonol fulfills its production costs, and can solve the stub recycle problem. Website: www.karbonol.com

Meşk

Meşk Tech. is a İstanbul-based music technology company that provides unique software to revolutionize the eastern music education. Any person can learn and practice an instrument or develop vocal skills via using our Meşk App. Website: www.meskteknoloji.com

PACHA

PACHA; protein and collagen chips, %100 Natural and tasty functional food. Website: www.pachacips.com

PDAccess

PDAccess is a cloud security software that helps companies manage their clouds secure, agile and compliant. Website: https://www.pdaccess.com

Pirahas

A magical and revolutionary fully automated software at an unbelievable price for Amazon sellers. Website: www.pirahas.com

Respo Gadgets

Respo Gadgets is an Istanbul based medical device company that develops an innovative, silent, portable and comfortable oral device to be used in mild to moderate level obstructive sleep apnea and snoring treatment. Website: https://www.dormio.com.tr/

SafeTech

Safe Tech is an IDS and an IPS system that protects SCADA/Industrial IoT systems against cyber-attacks and operational threats. Website: www.smartscadasiem.com

Secpoint

To make and new perspective of cyber intelligence Website: https://www.secpoint.com.tr/

SFM Yazılım

SFM Software is a fast and accurate cost estimation software for the product to be manufactured by Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) in the machine manufacturing industry and productivity software which increases the company’s productivity by up to 15% at no extra cost to the manufacturer. Website: www.sfmyazilim.com

T Fashion

T-Fashion is a platform that aims to provide customized live analytics and fashion trend insights to companies that operate in the textile industry via analyzing thousands of social media accounts by the use of sophisticated deep learning algorithms Website: https://tfashion.ai

Tetis Bio

TETIS BIOTECH is a biomaterial company producing high quality marine bioactive compound products for industries such as healthcare and cosmetics. Website: https://www.tetisbiotech.com/

Üretken Akademi

Training-oriented startup acceleration program that supports high school and university students to start-up. Website: uretkenakademi.com

User Vision

Uservision is a platform helping brands to acquire agile implicit, explicit and subconscious qualitative insights from their target audience leveraging AI. Website: www.user.vision

ARAIG Global

ARAIG Global is a new international company and partner of IF-Tech Canada. ARAIG Global is a licensed company for production and global sales of the product- Gaming vest. We have the exclusivity to produce, distribute and market the Gaming vest that gives gamers an experience unheard of. Website: araig.com

Augmental

Augmental is an educational technology application targeting middle to high school students where course materials are adapted to each student’s learning abilities using Artificial Intelligence and student engagement tools. Website: www.augmental.education

Beambot

BeamBot offers artificial intelligence software that utilizes the already existing CCTV feed for autonomous control of any facility in order to optimize operation expenses, safety and security. Website: www.beambot.co

BlueVisor

BlueVisor develops AI wealth management platform to lift financial burden so that people can enjoy a better life. BlueVisor mainly focuses on the B2B market with SaaS (Software as a Service) business model or platform. BlueVisor has made tractions already in a short period of company history. Website: bluevisor.kr&entrusta.ai

Cardilink

Displays the status of devices in a dashboard in real time and we analyze your data for the long-term monitoring and quality reports. Alarms and any occurring issues will be reported to you before the product will be used with a patient. Additional benefit for you: Data Analytics of your product for clinical studies. Website: www.cardi-link.com

DRD Biotech

DRD Biotech develops diagnostic blood tests for brain damage such as Stroke, Concussion, and Epilepsy. Website: www.drdbiotech.ru

Edubook

Edubook is an Interactive Learning Community that Provides a Safe Space for Educators and Learners to connect, collaborate, and communicate among each others. Website: WWW.EDUBOOK.ME

FIXAR AERO

FIXAR is an Autonomous commercial drone with unique aerodynamics. Website: WWW.FIXAR-AERO.RU

Hot-wifi

Guest wi-fi networks with marketing options & wi-fi analytics Website: hot-wifi.ru

Inspector Cloud

Inspector Cloud Website: http://www.inspector-cloud.com

InstaCare

InstaCare is transforming the typical healthcare infrastructure of Pakistan into a digital healthcare infrastructure in order to make it more accessible and reliable from the base of the pyramid to save lives over 2,000,000 people every year who die because of the current outdated infrastructure of the country. Website: https://instacare.pk/

Intixel

Intixel is building AI-based products to empower physician decisions as a second eye. Our Team is a finely selected Artificial Intelligence experts, engineers, computer scientists, and medical imaging experts. Website: www.intixel.com

Mazboot

Mazboot is the first Arabic in-app coach for helping diabetic patients self-manage their disease and get a consultation from doctors Website: https://www.mazbootapp.com/

MIFOOD

MiFood is a company that provides automation and robotization services for restaurants. Website: https://mifood.es

Monicont

Monicont is a next-generation utility, transforming lives and unlocking potential through access to energy. Website: https://monicont.com/

Otus Technologies

Otus Technologies develops a novel software tool for aircraft flight loads analysis and dynamic solutions. Website: https://otustech.com.pk

PakVitae

PakVitae provides lifetime affordable filters that can purify water to 99.9999% without any power requirement. Our technology revolutionizes the conventional water treatment processes. Website: https://www.pakvitae.org

Pharma Global

The system of technological solutions based on BigData and AI (e-commerce, e-learning, and marketplace platforms) that reduce costs for market access for pharmaceutical manufacturers. Website: https://pharma.global/

RAAV Techlabs

Data analytics and quality analysis instrumentation company, building devices to check the internal quality of agricultural produce and dairy, by non-invasive and non-destructive method, to give important information like nutritional and adulterants present in the produce. Website: www.raav.in

Torever

Torever allows travelers to plan their trips in a minute for free, and take back control of their journeys with accurate info and navigation on the go! Website: app.torever.com

UIQ Travel

Connects solo travelers with shared interests in-flight and in-destination. Website: https://uiqt.com

Usedesk

OmniAI-powered omnichannel helpdesk platform which supports customers and sales. Website: usedesk.com

UVL Robotics

UVL develops and produces of multi-rotary type UAVs with vertical take-off and landing on hydrogen-air fuel cells. The company was founded by leading experts in the field of aviation and robotics systems design with experience in scientific and industrial enterprises. Website: www.uvl.io

XYLEXA

XYLEXA is an early-stage company developing Artificial Intelligence(AI) based cloud the application which helps the radiologist in early, accurate and cost-effective diagnosis of breast cancer through mammograms. Website: WWW.XYLEXA.COM

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GAMING RECAP (MARCH 15-20)

New Redfall Story Trailer Released

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Microsoft planning mobile app store launch, says Phil Spencer

Microsoft is planning to launch its own app store for games across mobile devices, according to Phil Spencer.

In March 2024 new rules are expected under the EU's Digital Markets Act, which will require Apple and Google to open their mobile platforms to app stores owned and operated by other companies.

Microsoft aims to capitalise on this with its own Xbox platform, for which its proposed purchase of Activision Blizzard is a key element.

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EU delays Activision Blizzard decision as Microsoft offers further remedies

EU regulators have delayed a decision on Microsoft's proposed $69BN acquisition of Activision Blizzard after the company submitted remedies in its efforts gain approval.

The European Commission had previously announced a provisional deadline of 25th April for its decision on the controversial takeover, but, as reported by Reuters, that has now shifted to 22nd May as its reviews Microsoft's latest submissions.

Details of these remedies have not been made public, as per EU policy, but it's likely these relate to a flurry of recent deals Microsoft has signed in a bid to be seen as willing to bring Call of Duty - a particular sticking point for regulators in the EU, US, and UK - to competing services.

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PlayStation Plus Game Catalog lineup for March revealed 

Check out the Playstation Blog to see the full list

Another Seven Games Will Leave Xbox Game Pass Soon (March 31)

A Memoir Blue, MLB The Show 22, Chinatown Detective Agency and more.

New Story Trailer for Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Released

Netflix says it has 40 more game releases lined up for 2023

The company began offering Netflix subscribers access to a library of mobile games through the Android and iOS versions of its app in late 2021.

In an update on Monday, Netflix said it currently has 16 first-party games in development and a further 70 in the works with third-party studios.

“This year we’re going to continue building our portfolio — and that means new games every month,” Leanne Loombe, Netflix’s vice president of external games, wrote in a blog.

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Dying Light Developer Techland shares a teaser of its upcoming ‘story-focused AAA title’

Dying Light studio Techland has published a teaser for its next project. Though still unnamed, the new fantasy title got a slice of concept art today.

On Twitter, Techland shared the art of its newest game. It’s set to be a narrative-driven fantasy epic, with an “exotic open world” to explore.

“We strive to create a compelling story-focused AAA title that combines and refines the best aspects of gameplay that Techland is known for,” reads the post.

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Former Criterion leaders set-up new AAA games studio Fuse Games

The veterans who left Need for Speed developer Criterion in December last year have reunited to form a new AAA studio: Fuse Games.

The new outfit has been founded by studio general manager Matt Webster, head of content Steve Uphill, head of production Pete Lake, head of technology Andrei Shires, and head of operations Alan McDairmant.

The team is in the process of finding an office in Guildford, and will adopt a hybrid working approach. Its first game will be a AAA console and PC release, and when asked if it'll match the games Criterion is famous for – racing titles such as Burnout and Need for Speed – Webster isn't giving anything away.

"Even our recent history spans a few things," Webster reminds us. "Obviously arcade racers and open world racers are what we know very deeply. But we have played around in other genres over the years, including Battlefront, Battlefield… VR. We know what we are good at, and that spans a broad range of things now. Once we select our genre, we want to lead that genre."

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Royal Match developer Dream Games opens new office in London

Istanbul-based mobile developer Dream Games has opened its first overseas office in London.

The company is best known for its casual game Royal Match, which launched three years ago and has since become a regular Top Three highest-grossing game in the UK and US.

Dream Games also reports it has been valued at $2.75 billion.

The developer has also made two key new hires, with both recruits operating out of the new London office.

King's global head of marketing Richard Hocking leaves to join Dream Games as its first chief marketing officer.

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IO Interactive opens new studio in Istanbul

IO Interactive has announced it has opened a fourth studio, with the newest branch based in the Turkish city of Istanbul.

The company revealed the new studio via its website, describing it as a "crucial part in the continued growth and success of IO Interactive."

IOI Istanbul is located in the Maslak area of the city's Sariyer district, alongside several other tech businesses.

It hopes to "[establish] a foothold for AAA development in Turkey" and the team there will "play a significant role" on all IOI productions.

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Why we must fight for a decentralized future

If you’re into cryptocurrency or blockchain, there’s a good chance I don’t have to spell out the benefits of decentralization. You’re a first-generation user of a technology that will increasingly define the future of the internet, and you have front-row seats to the world premiere of Web3.

The internet’s use and control were always as centralized as we see now. In the early days, under the stewardship of the United States Department of Defense, the network needed not to rely on one core computer. What if a terrorist attack or missile strike took down the principal node? Individual network parts had to communicate without relying on a single computer to reduce vulnerability.

Later, the unincorporated Internet Engineering Task Force, which facilitated the development of all internet protocols, worked ceaselessly to prevent private companies or particular countries from controlling the network.

Today, centralized app nodes are controlled and operated by the planet’s richest organizations, collecting and storing billions of people’s data. Private companies control the user experience on apps and can incentivize and manipulate behavior. From a reliability standpoint, billions lose their primary means of communication when centralized nodes go down — as in recent incidents with Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger in October 2021.

We have also seen how little the tech behemoths think of our privacy when dollar signs appear in their eyes: They harvest and sell our data on an industrial scale. After 10-plus years of using people as advertisers’ products, Mark Zuckerberg has brazenly co-opted the metaverse. Google and Apple, meanwhile, continue their incessant mission to enter every corner of our lives.

Related: The data economy is a dystopian nightmare

We also know what happens when authoritarian governments come knocking on the doors of these centralized mega-warehouses of data, fed by our devices that function as a surveillance army. We’ve seen in Ukraine the awful, large-scale violence that can be excused or hidden when media and military power comes under authoritarian control. In some countries, the state has unprecedented access to every aspect of citizens’ behavior, monitoring everything from internet search history to minor social infractions. Systems that would horrify even George Orwell are only possible because of centralization.

Even in Silicon Valley, ensconced within Western notions of freedom and individuals’ rights, tech empires rarely choose a principled stance over a large, lucrative market. When centralized powers such as Moscow, Beijing or Istanbul ask for censorship and control, they usually get it. Fundamentally, we cannot trust the tech giants with the innermost details of our lives; the centralization of control over the internet is undermining or forestalling democracy everywhere.

Taking our power back

We should not be surprised that tech behemoths have become the natural enemies of decentralization: Centralization is a natural instinct for those in control. Until the advent of the internet and the blockchain, centralization often meant convenience and simplicity. In the Middle Ages, a distributed system of vassal lords meant the monarchy lacked control, and money seeped through the cracks of corruption.

With time and distance no longer problematic in the internet age, Big Tech’s drive toward centralization is less surprising. Can we be astonished by the horrific results of attention-grabbing algorithms, such as attempted genocides or political manipulation based on psychometric analysis of user data? Centralization has consequences.

Distributed ledger technology provides a practical alternative. Social media, messaging, streaming, searching and data-sharing on the blockchain can be fairer, more transparent and accessible, and less centralized. Conversely, this does not mean data has to be less private.

In XX Messenger’s case, which my team and I launched in January, XX Network nodes process anonymous messages worldwide, shredding metadata for recipients and timestamps. With XX, there is privacy and decentralization. Later, this new paradigm of communications and information-sharing makes a significant extension and reinvention of democracy possible.

Related: Blockchain-based decentralized messengers: A privacy pipedream?

There are moments in history when two separate events combine to tell a greater truth. In 2008, when Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. crashed in the wake of the Great Recession, it seemed to be the death knell of centralized financial institutions, despite the economic pain it would herald. Then, little more than a month later, Satoshi Nakamoto published the Bitcoin (BTC) white paper, the revolutionary blueprint for modern peer-to-peer currency. There’s an important connection between these two momentous events, yet the words “Bitcoin,” “blockchain” and “cryptocurrency” draw eye-rolls from those who misunderstand centralization’s issues.

In the autumn of 2008 was the opportunity to begin telling a story: It is up to us — the cryptographers, privacy lovers, traders, developers, activists and converts — to carry the torch of decentralization and democracy. If there was ever a tale that deserved to be told, beginning to end, it is this one.

Join me in telling it.

This article does not contain investment advice or recommendations. Every investment and trading move involves risk, and readers should conduct their own research when making a decision.

The views, thoughts and opinions expressed here are the author’s alone and do not necessarily reflect or represent the views and opinions of Cointelegraph.

David Chaum is one of the earliest blockchain researchers and a world-renowned cryptographer and privacy advocate. Known as “The Godfather of Privacy,” Chaum first proposed a solution for protecting metadata with mix-cascade networks in 1979. In 1982, his dissertation at the University of California, Berkeley became the first known proposal of a blockchain protocol. Chaum developed eCash, the first digital currency, and made numerous contributions to secure voting systems in the 1990s. Today, Chaum is the founder of Elixxir, Praxxis and the XX Network, which combine his decades of research and contributions in cryptography and privacy to deliver state-of-the-art blockchain solutions.

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Martı’s E-Scooter App Made Compatible with Huawei Mobile Services

Tech-startup Martı, which introduced Istanbul and Turkey to the electric scooter sharing system - which is very popular in America and in Europe- has become one of Turkey's most successful technology initiatives since its introduction in 2019 and is increasing its popularity day by day.

Martı’s popular free mobile application available for download on both iOS and Android platforms, which already has 1.000.000 + downloads, has recently been made compatible with Huawei Mobile Services and has found its place in the AppGallery in line with the Huawei users' wishes.

Huawei’s AppGallery, which is considered the 3rd largest application store in the world, has reached over 8 million registered users and over 5 million monthly active users in Turkey in a short time, but the company continues to expand its ecosystem.

Equipped with HMS infrastructure services such as QR code scanning, contactless transactions, and maps, Martı’s app, which provides a practical solution to Istanbul’s city traffic, has now been offered to millions of AppGallery users.

It needs to be emphasized that Huawei’s AppGallery applies the highest level of validation to protect users' sensitive data and privacy. Its users have full control over their personal data and their sensitive information - such as biometric data - is never processed outside of the Huawei device.

It also creates a unique user experience for all users by rapidly adding local applications specific to Turkey to the official application store.

Meanwhile, Martı continues its activities in the sector with its locally developed software, expert employees, and millions of customers.

Striding toward its aim to bring a new perspective to the transportation sector in Istanbul and Turkey, Martı also works on protecting the environment with its low carbon emission transporting offer.

After several initiatives in the field of shared EVs service, and as part of the green wave companies that have provided a practical solution to Istanbul’s chaotic city traffic, the company is planning to expand its ridesharing offer with electric vehicles in 2022.

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Istanbul with 16 million inhabitants has chosen KOBIL from Germany for the digital transformation

Istanbul with 16 million inhabitants has chosen KOBIL from Germany for the digital transformation

WORMS, GERMANY – Newsaktuell – 24 November 2021 – For the 16 million inhabitants of the Turkish metropolis of Istanbul, the German company KOBIL from Worms has developed a super app to make the metropolis more modern and more digital. The app allows all users to access all municipal services easily and securely, an app that aims to simplify the daily lives of Istanbul’s citizens and also improve…

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Five Years of Ethereum: From a Teenage Dream to a 38B Blockchain

Five Years of Ethereum: From a Teenage Dream to a $38B Blockchain

How far has the Ethereum blockchain come in the five years since its inception? We explore key developments, changes and challenges.

It would seem that five years is a relatively short time for an information technology company,

but Ethereum has made colossal progress during this time, growing from its own initial coin offering project to the largest blockchain platform, running about 2,000 decentralized applications. Today, the market capitalization of its native cryptocurrency, Ether (ETH), is worth $38 billion — larger than Ford Motor Company and the popular app Snapchat. Not only that, but the value of Ether has seen a 121-fold increase over the period of the network’s existence. While the whole team is preparing for the transition to the proof-of-stake consensus algorithm ahead of the upcoming Berlin upgrade, Cointelegraph recalls the striking changes that have occurred to the platform over the five years since its launch, and the failures that have only toughened its resolve.

2013/2014: An idea to an $18 million crowdsale 

Ethereum was invented by Vitalik Buterin, a Canadian programmer of Russian descent. It was 2013, and Buterin was just an 18-year-old teenager, but his idea found a lively response in the global blockchain community. Later, Gavin Wood, a British computer programmer, proved the possibility of creating the system invented by Buterin and described the basic principles of its operation in the Ethereum “Yellow Paper.” Together with the first members of the Ethereum team, they launched a crowdsale and raised $18 million for the project’s development.

2015: Network launch and exchange listing

The first version of the Ethereum cryptocurrency protocol, called Frontier, was launched on July 30, 2015. But the security level the system boasted back then was far from what Ethereum is today. The launch of Frontier marked an important milestone in the history of the network, after which the developers immediately started working with smart contracts and creating DApps on the real blockchain. The first existing historical record of Ether’s price is from Aug. 7, 2015, when ETH was added to the Kraken crypto exchange at $2.77 per coin. Over its first three days of trading, its price dropped to a demeaning $0.68, most likely under the influence of rapid sales by early investors. In the second half of the year, droves of crypto enthusiasts rushed to learn what they could about Ethereum. A particularly significant contribution to its popularization was made by the DEVCON-1 developer conference, which was held from Nov. 9 to 13. The event sparked intense discussions on the development of Ethereum, with the participation of representatives from IBM, Microsoft and UBS.

2016: The DAO, hackers and Ethereum split

At the beginning of 2016, the price of Ether rose rapidly, fueled by news of the upcoming launch of a network protocol with a more stable version: Homestead. As a result, ETH reached its first serious high of $15 per coin on March 13, with the platform’s market cap exceeding the boastful $1 billion mark. On March 14, Homestead went live, which made its blockchain officially secure through new protocols and network changes (EIP-2, EIP-7 and EIP-8), making future updates possible. More specifically, the network protection became based on mining, which was planned only for the initial stage of development with subsequent transition to PoS with a hybrid model at an intermediate stage. At the same time, exuberant requirements for video memory acted as protection against the use of ASIC miners.

The next event, which brought the price of Ether to its highest value that year — $21 — was the widespread media coverage of the dizzying success of The DAO project, which raised more than 12 million ETH ($150 million at the time ) in May. The DAO — an acronym for decentralized autonomous organization — was one of the pioneers of the upcoming ICO era and chose Ethereum as its launchpad to raise investments. However, on June 16, using a vulnerability in The DAO’s code, unknown hackers stole about $60 million in ETH from the project. News of the attack sliced the price of ETH in half to $11. Buterin offered to return the stolen funds by conducting a hard fork to restore the network to its pre-attack state. Following a controversial hard fork held on July 20, the network split into two: Ethereum and Ethereum Classic. On Sept. 22, Ethereum suffered another blow: The network was subjected to a distributed denial-of-service attack, significantly slowing its operations. The news became an impetus for the beginning of a local downtrend in the curbed price, which began consolidating in the $7–$9 range by the end of the year. Two unplanned hard forks were then carried out to improve the resilience of the network and rectify the consequences of the DDoS attack.

2017: ICO boom 

Ether’s price experienced a meteoric rise at the start of 2017 as the cryptocurrency was added to the eToro platform on Feb. 23. Around the same time, the number of unconfirmed transactions on the Bitcoin network had reached 200,000, causing an increasing number of crypto investors and miners to opt for Ether as an alternative investment. On May 6, the price of ETH set a new bar of $95 per coin. The popularity of Ethereum grew rapidly in the crypto community and among DApp developers. The initial coin offering hype also contributed to the increased demand for Ether, as thousands of projects opted to fundraise in ETH. By Sept. 1, the price of Ethereum had almost reached a whopping $400, but news of China banning ICOs and crypto trading quickly slashed it to nearly $220. The price gradually recovered by mid-October after the release of the Byzantium network upgrade, which took place on Sept. 18. Along with the growth of the ICO bubble, in which Ether was still the main means of payment, ETH reached nearly $800 by the end of the year.

2018: Ethereum at $1,400 and a bearish trend

The beginning of 2018 turned out to be even more successful for Ethereum than the previous one. On Jan. 13, the price of Ether reached its all-time high of around $1,400. But the ICO rush, which had triggered the rapid growth of Ethereum’s price in 2017, came to an end. Throughout 2018, its echoes played a cruel joke on Ether as thousands of ICO projects sold their savings, meaning that ETH dropped even faster than the rest of the market. In early September, news of the Constantinople hard fork — expected in November — slowed the drop in the price and injected positive sentiment into the community. However, the network upgrade was delayed. Influenced by inter-bearish sentiments on the crypto market and pending updates, the price fell to $85, dropping from the second-largest to the third-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization behind XRP.

2019: Technical works, update delays and popularity of DAOs

Many aspects spiraled out of the control of developers over the year as they were actively engaged in conducting technical work on the network. Meanwhile, the community lost count of the number of upgrades carried out. In January, the technical roadmap gained clarity as difficult engineering problems were solved and the Ethereum development community continued to grow. DeFi became the largest sector within Ethereum, and the market saw early signs of growth in gaming and decentralized autonomous organizations. At the beginning of 2019, the only DeFi protocol with significant funds was MakerDAO, which had a total of 1.86 million ETH ($260.4 million at the time). The playing field became much more diverse by the end of the year when new participants rushed into the industry.

On Feb. 28, the Constantinople hard fork took place on the Ethereum network, which prepared it for the transition to the Casper PoS protocol and the abolition of the previous mining model. However, the eighth upgrade, called Istanbul — which initially had been scheduled for Dec. 4 — was delayed and activated on the Ethereum mainnet on Dec. 8. Among the main objectives of Istanbul were ensuring the compatibility of the Ethereum blockchain with the anonymous Zcash (ZEC) cryptocurrency and increasing the scalability of the network through SNARKs and STARKs zero-knowledge-proof protocols. In addition, the update made it difficult to carry out denial-of-service attacks on the network due to the change in the cost of gas needed for launching operating codes.

The progress of Ethereum 2.0 laid the foundation for the world’s largest corporations to start using the Ethereum blockchain. In July, Samsung released a software kit for Ethereum developers, six months after it was revealed that the development of its new phone included a built-in Ethereum wallet. Another large partnership involved internet browser Opera, which had launched an Ethereum-supported Android wallet at the end of 2018 and announced a built-in Ethereum wallet for iOS users in early 2019. Meanwhile, Microsoft continued its involvement with the Ethereum ecosystem. In May, the company released the Azure Blockchain Development Kit to support Ethereum development. In October, it backed a tokenized incentive system from the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance for use within enterprise consortiums. And in November, it launched Azure Blockchain Tokens, a service that lets enterprises issue their own tokens on Ethereum.

2020: The DeFi boom and PoS 

In the first half of 2020, Ethereum — famous for its numerous conferences and meetups — was forced to postpone all activity due to the coronavirus pandemic. Nevertheless, the team managed to make significant progress in solving the scalability issue, with the launch of the final Ethereum 2.0 testnet scheduled for Aug. 4. The developers hope that once the upgrade is complete, the Ethereum network will become faster, cheaper and more scalable without compromising decentralization and network flexibility. Meanwhile, the blockchain network continues to grow, as activity in the decentralized finance market has increased significantly. According to Dapp.com, the daily volume of value transferred via DeFi applications reached an all-time high of $1.8 billion on July 2. During the second quarter, a record $4.9 billion was moved through DeFi applications — a 67% growth when compared with the previous quarter — while the number of active users of Ethereum applications reached 1,258,527, an increase of 97%.

Article Produced By Julia Magas

Julia is a researcher/journalist who covers the latest trends in finance and technology. Since 2013, she has been researching the cryptocurrency market and coordinating international conferences. Julia’s works are featured by popular fintech magazines, including Investing, SeekingAlpha and Bitcoinist, where she interviewed representatives from MIT, Indeed, Ethereum and more. She's trading some stocks and digital currencies for experimental purposes and hunting for the most interesting, cutting-edge technologies' use cases in investing and finance.

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Meet Our MediaMarkt StartupChallenge Winners

In Hackquarters, we describe ourselves as “startup accelerator & corporate innovation partner” and as a company founded in Turkey, we mainly collaborate with Turkish startups, even if we usually have our events/programs with global companies. The growing interest in our programs from international startups is one of those things that makes Hackquarters happy. We can say that retailtech startup applications to MediaMarkt Startup Challenge ’19, made us pretty happy.

MediaMarkt Startup Challenge ’18 had great retailtech startups, but MMSC’19 startups were even better. From 11 startups we chose from over 100 applications, 3 of them were Greek startups.

MediaMarkt Startup Challenge ’19 was opened by a speech from CEO of MediaMarkt Turkey & Greece, Yenal Gökyıldırım. Yenal Gökyıldırım said that they are happy to be working within the innovation community for 2 years with MediaMarkt Startup Challenge and looking forward to making this a traditional event. He pointed out that compared to 60 applications last year, this year MMSC’19 got more than 100 applications, 35 of them from abroad, and happy that the event got attention from countries such as Azerbaijan, Nigeria, Greece, Poland and more.

After Mr. Gökyıldırım, Kaan (you know which Kaan) was on stage for his opening remarks. He told how happy Hackquarters is to be working with MediaMarkt for the 2nd year in a row and how happy we are with the great applications we received from great retail startups.

We continued our event with startup presentations, with 5 mins of pitching time and 5 mins of Q&A for each startup. Our jury, who was grading the startups of MediaMarkt Startup Challenge ’19, was;

Yenal Gökyıldırım, CEO, MediaMarkt Turkey & Greece Martin Wild, Chief Innovation Officer, MediaMarktSaturn Sonja Moosburger, COO, MediaMarktSaturn N3XT Murat Gigin, CEO, Tekfen Holding Salih Zeki Sarıdanişmet, General Director, Demirören Media Fatoş Karahasan, Consultant & Writer Münir Kundakçı, Marketing and Operations Director, Microsoft Turkey Kaan Akın, CEO, Hackquarters

After great presentations from 11 startups, our keynote speaker Martin Wild was on stage for his “Innovate or Die – Future of Retail” speech. Martin explained the vision of MediaMarktSaturn for innovation and the future of retail technologies. “Retailtech Hub is like Tinder between startups and corporates.” said Martin Wild. RetailTech Hub hosted more than 50 startups since 2017 and most of them piloted projects with most of them. He also showcased current projects within MediaMarkt stores, such as Paul the AI based robot assistant and Paula the VR assistant.

Then comes the highlight of the day: Winners.

And the winner is… Bagaj!

Voted by our prestigious jury, Bagaj has been chosen as the winner of MediaMarkt Startup Challenge ’19. As the winner of 2019, Bagaj will be presented with the opportunity to be included in Retailtech Hub in Munich, and the entrepreneur network of Plug and Play. They will also have the chance to present at Retail Technologies Conference in Istanbul.

Poltio and Pegneon have been voted as 2nd and 3rd, respectively. They earned the chance to pilot in MediaMarkt and Tekzen stores, the chance to present at the Retail Technologies Conference in Istanbul. Poltio also got the chance to pitch for Chain Stores Association Members.

We would like to congratulate all the winners!

About Bagaj (1st Place)

Bagaj is a locker service that can be used via a mobile phone app. You can use our lockers as luggage storage / left luggage service and leave your personal belongings to the lockers which are located in places such as city centers, venues, concert halls, and beaches.

About Poltio (2nd Place)

Poltio helps brands access, engage with and learn from their users by the help of interactive content. Platform modules integrated with our analytics engine provide detailed, real-time insights about your audience.

About Pegneon (3rd Place)

Pegneon is a serious games company specialized in developing educational video games for employee training. Eugene: a series of educational mini-games for the training of customer service agents and the GDPR game.

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Notes from Meetup #7: Tech and the City - Part 1

(This edition’s write up is split into two separate posts in order to get around Tumblr’s 5 embedded videos per post limit - we had a lot of talks at this one :)

The December 2017 edition of the SmartSheffield meetup was probably our biggest to date, with tickets selling out over a week before the event, people on the waitlist and 8 speakers. We nearly finished all the pizza this time!! (Thanks Arup as ever for laying on such a generous spread :)

The talks were definitely shorter and more succinct this time, but with so much to get through it was still a squeeze to be finished by 9pm. We’ll continue to tweak and improve, but it’s also a measure of how much activity there now is going on across the city, and the popularity of our event, that there is more and more content to get through. And some of the topics cannot be covered in just a few minutes, so it’s all good.

There was also much talk around funding bids again, which is good to note. Unfortunately the planned 5g testbed bid workshop that was planned for November didn’t happen in the end, but we still very much want to arrange monthly open bid workshops to alternate with the meetup proper. We’ll look to see whether we can get one booked in for January, with the next meetup pencilled in for Monday February 5th.

We also, as per usual, organised a meeting of the Sheffield Things Network before the meetup, which was excellently attended. And with Things Network LoRaWAN gateways now being shipped, we’re confident there will be a significant network up and running in Sheffield by the Spring. I should also note that the Sheffield Honey Company have put the first Gateway in the field (well done Jez Daughtry!) and also that Sheffield Hallam University have teamed up with the Digital Catapult and have commissioned a Things Connected LoRaWAN gateway in the city centre, so we now have two IoT platforms to play around with, as well as the SigFox network which WNDUK is also rolling out.

Speaking of which, I should point readers at the Urban Flows Observatory’s first innovation competition, which is focussed on building a prototype to capture new data. There more about this in Steve Jubb’s talk below, but the deadline is very short, and it’s worth highlighting here - so get you’re expressions of interest tout suite.

Right, now without further ado, here are the talks from the event:

Ben Atha: Smart kiosks and transparent screens

Ben Atha is the director of Milk Lab, a creative design agency based at the Electric Works, and in Istanbul, which specialises in applying interactive technologies for advertising. Ben explains how the company has been developing smart kiosks for retail applications, that could also find uses in cities, and also how new transparent OLED screen technologies are making new kinds of static augmented reality applications possible, which also have potential applications in cities.

Stephen Elliot: Location-based apps for cultural heritage and behaviour change

Stephen is the founder and CEO of Llama Digital a Sheffield agency that specialises in location based applications and experiences, and were one of the first agencies to explore and exploit bluetooth beacons.

Stephen introduced us to two of their applications:

Situate, which allows museums, galleries and other cultural heritage organisations to create their own location-based tours and experiences, giving ‘non-technical’ curators the ability to easily manage their visitors’ digital experience of the physical location.

Bicycle Island - an app developed for the Isle of Wight, designed to encourage people to cycle along the route between Cowes and Newport in order to promote a healthier lifestyle and reduce congestion along the route. It’s a gamified active travel app, that engages cyclists in a collective effort to beat monthly distance targets in order to unlock charitable donations to local causes, and shows what can be done by building bespoke interaction on top of Llama’s underlying .Situate engine and backend.

Jonny Douglas: Update on Mount Pleasant and Avenues to Zero project

Back in July, Pennie Raven introduced us to the plans for the development of the Mount Pleasant estate in Sharrow, and the Avenues to Zero project that presents a holistic vision of a community where living, working and play are all integrated. This time her business partner Jonny Douglas presented us with an update on the project and how the SmartSheffield community can get involved.

Fabio Ciravegna: A Data Ecosystem Proposal to Model Sheffield City Region Mobility Patterns

Fabio is Professor of Language and Knowledge Technology at the University of Sheffield’s Computer Science Department. He is also a co-founder of successful University spin-outs The Floow and K-NOW. Fabio has a proposal to bring data together from a number of sources across the city region in order to analyse movement and transport patterns. He also raises  important points about how the city should be doing more to enabling projects like this, and how the SmartSheffield community can play a role in reducing the friction.

Please check out part two for talks by Steve Jubb, David Oliver, Sam Chapman and I (Chris Dymond).