Silicon Valley Prague News

NewsTin opens up new headquarters in Silicon Valley

NewsTin opens up new headquarters in Silicon Valley with 30 software engineers in Prague.

Newly Established Ministry of IT

We are pleased to announce the formation of the new Czech Ministry for Telecommunications and Information technology. The Ministry is to oversee that 25% of the government agenda is carried out electronically and that at least 50% of the population is computer literate. The Ministry's goal is also to create a more competitive telecommunications environment, give support to e-business, and fulfill the EU candidate countries initiatives. The new IT Ministry will start a national IT education program sponsored by Intel. The Ministry is headed by Vladimir Mlynar and the Deputy Minister is Michal Frankl. You may contact them for more information at:

Ministry of Informatics
Havelkova 2
130 00 Praha 3
posta@micr.cz

You can also obtain additional information on their website at: www.micr.cz

Qbizm Technologies, Inc.

On the Silicon Valley front, the latest Czech company to open up an office in Silicon Valley is Qbizm Technologies, Inc. (www.qbizm.com) a Czech company based in Brno and Prague. According to Peter Ulrich, the CEO of Qbizm software company, opening an office in San Jose creates many new exciting opportunities for Qbizm on an international basis.