ERSU ABLAK

Digital minimalism is coming ERSU ABLAK

Digital minimalism is coming

Changes are happening at a very fast pace in the digital world. A few years ago, to post content for a large crowd following social media was a nice thing. People who had many followers were the “social elite.” Not anymore. Now, the same people are classified as social media clowns, bending at the will of masses, trying to please their followers. They are seen as needy and clingy. Now, the cool thing to do is to be away from the circus of social media.

January 17 2019
Overcoming prejudices ERSU ABLAK

Overcoming prejudices

This is an age of prejudices more than anything else. The age of the internet, open borders and cheap flights tickets should have ended it. But our prejudices keep growing as the world gets smaller.

January 02 2019
Fate of the crypto currencies ERSU ABLAK

Fate of the crypto currencies

December is the month to make predictions about the next year. Major companies issue their predictions and we as journalists and avid readers try to absorb them all, in order to understand what kind a year will the next year be.

December 16 2018
Beyond banking ERSU ABLAK

Beyond banking

Turkey is not among leading countries when it comes to the size of its banking industry. However, it is among the top when it comes to financial technologies and innovations. This fact has been underlined once more in a Deloitte report, titled “Digital Banking Maturity.” According to the report, Turkey is among the five digital champions, along with Switzerland, Spain, Russia and Poland. France, Finland, Norway, Zambia and Czech Republic are among digital smart followers, which is the second best category in the report. Germany, the U.K., the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Sweden and Italy are all listed as digital adaptors.

December 06 2018
A new investment in the cryptocurrency market ERSU ABLAK

A new investment in the cryptocurrency market

There was a time when everybody was speaking about cryptocurrencies, especially about bitcon. Even some people were wearing t-shirts with bitcoin logo. It seemed that every smart person had invested in bitcoin and become rich instantly because they were so brave and knowledgeable. However, all of a sudden, with the crash of bitcoin, those who could not stop talking about cryptocurrencies went into deep silence.

November 29 2018
Media as we know it is changing fast ERSU ABLAK

Media as we know it is changing fast

I am 38 years old. I have seen lots of trends and how technology has changed media and sports. However, it is getting harder and harder to keep up. New developments happen very quickly when technology, media and entertainment meet. It used to be that there would only be mega trends like “people prefer to watch rather than to read.” However, these days, there are multiple mega trends happening at the same time.

November 22 2018
A newcomer to the Turkish SaaS market ERSU ABLAK

A newcomer to the Turkish SaaS market

Two days ago, I had the opportunity to meet with ZOHO’s MEA Business Development Director Ali Shabdar. Zoho Corporation is an Indian software development company. The focus of Zoho Corporation lies in web-based business tools and information technology solutions, including an office tools suite, internet of things management platform and a suite of IT management software.

November 15 2018
Privacy in the network age ERSU ABLAK

Privacy in the network age

Yesterday, I had the opportunity to talk to Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye at Brand Week Istanbul. He is an assistant professor at Imperial College London, where he heads the Computational Privacy Group and a research affiliate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he received his PhD from in 2015. His research aims at understanding how the unicity of human behavior impacts the privacy of individuals—through re-identification or inference-in rich high-dimensional datasets such as mobile phones, credit cards or browsing data.

November 08 2018
Helping others by doing your job perfectly ERSU ABLAK

Helping others by doing your job perfectly

There is some kind of a time prejudice embedded in the words “technology” and “innovation.” If I were to tell you a company is a champion of innovation in high technology, you would assume the company I referred to would probably be very young.

October 31 2018