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Consumers are using their mobile devices to shop online in Turkey

Mobile commerce is on the rise in Turkey, where a growing number of consumers are beginning to use their smartphones to shop for products online. Hepsiburada.com, a leading retailer in Turkey, has reported that mobile traffic has grown significantly over the past year. According to the retailer, 62% of the sites traffic comes from mobile devices. Smartphone adoption has accelerated throughout the country has powered the growth of mobile commerce.

Retailers are reporting growing mobile traffic and sales

According to Hepsiburada.com, one in every two orders made through the site is done so using a mobile device. Consumers have shown that they are very interested in mobile shopping due to its convenient nature. Other retailers have reported an increase in mobile traffic and shopping as well. The Informatics Industry Association has reported that e-commerce volume reached $6.2 billion in 2014, with mobile commerce accounting for a significant degree of this increase in volume.

11 million smartphones expected to be sold in Turkey by the end of this year

Mobile commerce represents a $3 billion business and more consumers are beginning to use their devices to shop online rather than visit physical stores. According to GFK, a market research firm based in Germany, more than 4.5 million smartphones were sold in Turkey during the first five months of this year. By the end of the year, more than 11 million smartphones are expected to be sold throughout the country. Many consumers believe that mobile commerce represents an easier way to shop for products.

Mobile commerce continues to experience explosive growth throughout the world

Mobile commerce has been growing significantly throughout the world, with China, Japan, and South Korea emerging as the most prominent mobile markets. In Europe, mobile shopping is becoming a very powerful force for the retail industry and more companies are beginning to invest in the mobile space in order to effectively engage consumers that are relying on their mobile devices. In the coming years, mobile commerce is expected to continue seeing significant growth throughout the world.

As the company works to rebuild itself, John Chen has explained that good talent is hard to keep.

BlackBerry CEO John Chen has now stated that it is not only difficult to find good mobile technology talent, but it is also very hard to keep it, which is clearly a challenge that the company is facing as it works on rebuilding.

This challenge becomes much harder when trying to hire on a last-minute basis, while avoiding lost time.

Chen spoke in a Thomson Reuters interview, last week, at the third annual Waterloo Innovation Summit in Canada. He explained that the main problem is to figure out how not to waste time at the last minute when talent is needed. In 2011, BlackBerry mobile technology had been an employer of 11,000 people in the Waterloo Region of Ontario, Canada.. However, today’s figure has dwindled to 2,700 workers in 2015.

During that period, a great deal of mobile technology talent was lost from the company as it tried to survive.

In the interview, Chen expressed that “We lost a lot of good people as a company. Not everybody is cut out to be a turnaround person or be in a turnaround environment. But if you can do it – I love it -it is fascinating, it is fabulous. The reward that comes at the end, the feeling of it, is hard to describe.”

Chen is now coming close to completing his second year at the helm of BlackBerry. The company had once been the leader in the smartphone category, but its slice of the market is now under 1 percent. The CEO’s strategy involves attracting and keeping the best talent in order to ensure the company’s return to success. In his opinion, this is the greatest challenge that the company is facing, as the goal is to change the turnaround plan from having been the smartphone manufacturing leader into being a company with a focus on internet, software, and services.

The BlackBerry CEO has said that the mobile technology market and its competition can’t be allowed to dictate the future of this category. Instead, he believes that it is up to the participants to carve out the path, and that requires time and patience to accomplish effectively.