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Burak Yalım is the Editor in Chief of WORLDEF E-Commerce Magazine, covering digital economy trends, global logistics, and e-commerce ecosystems in the MENA region.
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For more than a decade, retail has been framed as a simple competition, physical stores versus E-commerce. One side was supposed to win. The other was supposed to disappear. I increasingly believe that this framework is outdated. The…
As the e-commerce ecosystem in Türkiye continues to grow, the logistics sector is becoming one of the most critical areas at the center of…
The Pope Meets Anthropic We spend a lot of time in the tech and digital commerce sectors analysing white papers from Silicon Valley,…
For years, we told ourselves a comfortable story about technology. Artificial intelligence was framed as a tool of efficiency, something that would help us sell better,…
The Digital Kickoff As we head toward 2026, the FIFA World Cup isn’t just arriving in North America; it’s arriving at the precise moment our region’s e-commerce…
The Global Data Center Market The physical “operating system” of the global digital economy is undergoing a massive transformation. As e-commerce platforms and AI-driven…
If furniture is taxed but software is not, who really benefits from global trade? The WTO’s e-commerce moratorium deadlock reveals a deeper conflict, one that could…
E-commerce in the GCC is facing its most significant resilience test to date. The sirens that echoed across Abu Dhabi and Dubai in early March 2026 told two very…
The future of e-commerce will not be decided on the storefront, but behind it. As global demand continues to expand, operational discipline, data quality, and…
Editor in Chief Burak Yalım writes: Q4 is arriving with record sales, rising pressure, and a new force reshaping everything: AI. November deals are no longer just…
Burak Yalım writes on the AI Sandbox and its potential for emerging economies. The idea of an AI sandbox first caught his attention as more than a regulatory experiment,…
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