A Turkish entrepreneur has expanded his business by introducing lokum, also known as Turkish delight, to Russians, who have quickly taken to the taste of the sweet dessert. Entrepreneur Ali Yılmaz, who is from the western province of Denizli, moved to St. Petersburg in 1999 to study and at the same time started selling small packages of lokum to Russians. He rented a small storage unit where he kept packages of lokum and delivered orders himself directly to his customers’ doors. He said, “Now, those days are over.”
The new Turkish historical epic “Fetih 1453” (The Conquest 1453) defeated “Recep İvedik 2” and has become Turkey's all-time most watched film in just 18 days. “Fetih 1453” opened in 850 theaters across Turkey with 500 prints last month, and it managed to sell 1,161,250 tickets in its first weekend, becoming the second-best opening of all time after “Recep İvedik 2,” which sold 1.2 million tickets in the first three days after its release on Feb. 13, 2009.
News Corp. (NWSA) Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch held talks with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey’s capital Ankara. Murdoch met with Erdogan at his office at 5 p.m. today for about an hour. Turkey is an important market for News Corp. and it wants to expand its investments in the country, Murdoch told Erdogan, said a government official, who declined to be identified because the talks were private.
Comodo (comodo.com), a leading certificate authority and Internet security solutions provider, today broke new ground with the announcement of a mobile app that enables small business IT staff to manage endpoint security from a smartphone. Released to the Microsoft Windows Phone Marketplace today, the Comodo Endpoint Security Manager Console for Microsoft Windows® Phone mobile app takes full advantage of the latest "Mango" phones and alerts users to changes in the endpoint security status of their environment.
