On April 10 this week, as you all know, Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, has testified before Congress. Various senators asked him tough questions.
It is estimated that by 2020 more than half of the workers in the U.S. will be doing some kind of extra work along with their day jobs.
There is a well-known quote which can be used to describe scams that have been happening repeatedly recently: “Fool me once, shame on you.
Last week, I wrote that in order for Turkish people not to fall victim to Ponzi schemes like Çiftlik Bank (Farm Bank), we need to better educate our people.
The title should’ve actually been a bit longer: Why are we so easily conned, and what does technology have to do with it?
This year, in the Mobile World Congress, the hottest topic is 5G. Everyone is talking about it. Crypto currencies and digitalization are also being addressed but 5G fever runs high. Almost every major company has announced something about 5G.
One of the buzz concepts of recent years is “digital transformation.” It goes hand in hand with Industry 4.0. Everybody is talking about it but few have embarked on a really transformative journey. Most people and companies are still trying to figure out what to digitize and when. My answer is that we should all digitize right now.
The Turkish Industry and Business Association (TÜBİSAD) released a report about Turkey’s digital transition yesterday. Important names like Serdar Urçar and Devrim Sönmez presented the findings together with three academia representatives. I will delve into the details of the report next week.
We Turks are usually not firsts in adopting new technologies; we actually lag behind by a few months, sometimes years, in the latest trends in the U.S., South Korea or Japan. I am not talking about cellphones of course; that’s a very different topic.
