Recap & Presentations
Thank you all who’ve joined us at the Bluetooth Smart and iBeacon Meetup last week. Attendance was sensational! With over 100 participants, double the number we initially expected for our first meet up, the event was a huge success. Thank you for your support and mind-opening questions. Your highly motivated presence inspired us into building better products. We will continue to inform you about updates and enhancements. Also, please find below both presentations as promised and feel free to download and reuse them (non-commercial please). Thanks again everyone and we hope to see you again soon. PRESENTATIONS What is Bluetooth...

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Bluetooth Smart & iBeacon Meetup
Bluetooth Low Energy and iBeacon open up a world of possibilities for location awareness. There are countless new opportunities for interactivity between smartphones and BLE enabled sensors. So we thought it would be great to organize a meetup and demonstrate what those opportunities are. On February 5th, mobile developers, entrepreneurs and electronic engineers will gather to discuss Bluetooth Smart and iBeacon technologies. We will be presenting Veacon sponsored projects (to be shared here later on) and answer as many questions as we can. Save the date and feel free to join us if you’re around. Admission and Pide (Turkish Pizza)...

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Need Cash? There's an App For That.
Earlier last year when Akbank won the title for best smartphone app at the Global Mobile Awards in Barcelona we thought we couldn’t have built a better app. We were wrong! World’s best just got better with Veacon integration. Akbank Direkt users are now able to withdraw cash at ATMs without using plastic. All they need is the app and bluetooth enabled on their iPhones. Developed in under three weeks, world’s first iBeacon enabled ATMs started out in 10 locations in Istanbul. The company is considering a nationwide rollout to some 4K+ ATM machines around the country with added features...

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What is Veacon?
A day doesn’t go by where mobile doesn’t disrupt the way we do things. Tiny computers with high connectivity make almost everything accessible, everywhere! Completing a money transaction while hiking on a mountain trail seemed like a Star Trek episode ten years ago, today it’s the new norm. Mobile changed the way we do business, communicate, socialize, have fun or basically the way we live. Today we are proud to announce Veacon, a proximity solution which allows mobile developers create location dependant mobile experiences for existing apps. Basically speaking, we’ll be seeing new applications that act differently in different locations...

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