Apple, the center app development could be in Bagnoli – Il Sole 24 Ore

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This article was published on 22 January 2016 at 11:06.
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NAPLES – “Apple announced that it will open in Naples a beautiful reality of innovation with about 600 people , an experiment really intriguing. It’s official “: around 10 o’clock yesterday morning the announcement of the Prime Minister, Matteo Renzi. “Tomorrow (today ed) Tim Cook will be here. We’ll talk after the meeting in Milan last November and after the excellent agreement between the government and Apple on outstanding tax – added the Prime Minister – There are a hundred million euro investment from Cisco in Italy, including Vimercate in Scampia ». Cisco, in fact, will invest in Italy in the next three years to accelerate the digitization process.

The multinational Cupertino then, in the shadow of Vesuvius, opened the first center of app development in Europe. It will provide students with practical skills and training on application development for iOS, its mobile operating system. “Europe is home to some of the most creative developers in the world and we are excited to help the next generation of entrepreneurs in Italy to acquire the skills needed to succeed – said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO -. The phenomenal success of the App Store is one of the driving forces and presents unlimited opportunities. ”

The iOS App Development Center will be located in a partner institution in Naples. Apple will work with partners throughout Italy who provide training for developers to provide opportunities for students. “The company – said in a statement – plans to expand this program to include further countries in the world.” The company already supports over 1.4 million jobs, including 1.2 million in the community of creators of apps, software engineers and entrepreneurs who create apps for iOS. Indeed, it seems that it is the unprecedented growth of the App Store has helped developers in Europe to earn more than € 10.2 billion from the sale of their apps worldwide. In Italy, it has created over 75,000 jobs.

For the President of the Regional Vincenzo De Luca the site of the new center Apple may be in Bagnoli. “It is not impossible – he said – in this investment were working for a long time the government and the Institute for Foreign Trade. It is an extraordinary achievement that confirms the commitment of the government for the region. After Land of fires, Bagnoli, Pompeii and the Royal Palace now is employment. “

In fact, the Campania boast the presence of a research system in which ict no doubt can be considered a factor of attraction of investments. The last evaluation ANVUR sees all universities bells placed at the top of the charts. In addition to courses related to ICT in Campania, there are about a thousand entries a year: a high number of graduates as well as that which rank well in foreign companies also. Nor can we forget the presence of technological districts that dined ICT a substantial part of their studies, the institutes of the CNR consortia Cini and CNIT, the regional competence center created in 2007, Enea. In short, a system that communicates – also thanks to the ultra-wide band that connects all the universities in the region – and works together with businesses, not only large that today less present, but also with a hard core of virtuous small and medium-sized companies.

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