
HotelRunner: The Turkish Hotel-Tech Platform That Started as CloudArena
HotelRunner: Turkish hotel-tech platform from Istanbul. 60,000+ partners, 193 countries. Founded as CloudArena 2011 by Agopyan and Beklen. $1.5M seed in 2013.

HotelRunner: Turkish hotel-tech platform from Istanbul. 60,000+ partners, 193 countries. Founded as CloudArena 2011 by Agopyan and Beklen. $1.5M seed in 2013.

Last week Havas Worldwide announced the appointment of Oliver Poppelbaum as Managing Director Digital Europe. According to the news Poppelbaum will be responsible for digital strategy and business development within the sphere.

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During a negotiation, participants analyze their counterparts by looking at their language, country of origin, background, age, and culture. However, not everybody pays attention to the gender issue, although it has been demonstrated that the negotiation strategies used by women are different from those used by men.

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