This is a follow-up to Cem Sertoglu’s post on Turkish Online News, dated July 28th, 2009. Some resources say there are 26 million internet users in Turkey, making it 14th largest internet population in the world. Yet, that wouldn’t be enough to justify the following result from Google Insights. The table is a snapshot from [...]

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Nobody knows for sure how and why the first soccer league was founded. But one theory, further supported by Spaniards’ big success in the realm, suggests that a Spanish king liked the idea as he thought the league will attract the attention of citizens and leave the king the valuable space to manage the country [...]

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A few days ago, I switched to Sophos Antivirus, as Stanford is providing to its students for free, from BitDefender. Then, I found this YouTube clip from Sophos. When you type "remove" in Google.co.uk, the Suggest feature gives you the following suggestions: "Remove norton" – 6,850,000 results "Remove mcafee" – 380,000 results "Remove avg" – [...]

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Media is one of the most twisted industries globally. Facts first. Sony is a large, if not the largest, content producer/owner in the world. From this perspective, Sony sits at the upstream of Netflix’ value chain as it is a major supplier to Netflix and it generates revenues by selling DVDs/Blu-rays to Netflix and getting [...]

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Mashable had a very insightful post today about the shift in demographics of Facebook userbase. In my opinion, the facts presented in the post are highly valuable, but the analysis and synthesis could well be furthered. First, I am also amazed by the explosive growth in older segments compared to younger segments. But here is [...]

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