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MediaMarkt chooses El Prat (Barcelona) for its Global Business Services, an international administrative hub
● The start-up of the new space will involve the hiring of 500 workers ● This new administrative center will serve eleven non-German-speaking countries The German group MediaMarktSaturn reinforces its commitment to Barcelona, which has been chosen as the...

Catalan clusters raise more than half a million euros from the European Commission for internationalization projects of their companyies
● The financing ratio is much higher than the weight of the population of Catalonia in the European Union ● Five of these clusters have also obtained the highest certificate of international excellence In the call Clusters Go International of the Comissió Europea in...

Sant Adrià, in the metropolitan area of Barcelona, will host the first global submarine cable landing port, the gateway to Asia, Africa and the Mediterranean.
Work has already begun on the first international submarine cable landing station in Catalonia, an infrastructure that will come into operation in 2022, and which will allow the arrival of fiber optic cables without any restrictions. The installation will be the...

The Government promotes the Space Agency of Catalonia: first nanosatellites in 2021 to deploy global IoT connectivity services
The Catalan Government, in the framework of the so-called New Space Economy to promote a new economic sector of high added value and generator of opportunities, based on the use of smaller satellites and lower cost than nanosatellites orbit at low altitude, has...

With the purchase of Vilynx, Apple wants to turn Barcelona into a center specializing in the development of artificial intelligence
The American Apple has recently acquired the Barcelona start-up Vilynx. According to various sources, the operation would have closed for about 40 million euros. The Catalan company specializes in the development of intelligent software that indexes and tags videos in...

Amazon strengthens its logistics with a new center of 15,300 m2 and already has seven facilities and 300,000 m2 in Catalonia
The e-commerce giant Amazon has moved to the Can Volart industrial estate, in Parets del Vallès, in a new logistics facility of 15,300 m2 that must meet the growing demand of the Barcelona market and its metropolitan area. This is the seventh infrastructure of the...

Barcelona reaches 87,000 m2 of investment in offices in the first semester and will account for 47% of the total volume in the State in 2020
● Almost half of the surface (42,000 m2) was contracted between the months of April and June ● 20% of the total contracted office space has been in the 22 @ technological district According to data recently made public by the real estate consultancy Savills Aguirre...

The number of subsidiaries of foreign companies located in Catalonia grows by 3% and reaches 8,900
● 18% of the subsidiaries of foreign companies in Catalonia have been created in the last 5 years ● 1,369 companies (16% of the total) belong to technology sectors, with an increase of 21% ACCIÓ, the Agency for the Competitiveness of the Company attached to the...