The founders of Facebook and WhatsApp, protagonists of the MWC ... - Reuters

L’Hospitalet de Llobregat (Barcelona), Jan. 16 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The founder of the social network Facebook, Marck Zuckerberg, not given to attend trade shows, will be the main attraction among the 240 speakers at the Mobile World Congress to be held from 24 to 27 February in Fira Barcelona.

Also attending the founder of mobile messaging application WhatsApp, Jan Koum, global president of IBM, Virginia Rometty, CEO of the music recognition application Shazam, Rich Riley, and the executive director of the ‘ Virtual Currency ‘Big Coin, Jon Matonis, organizers announced Thursday at a press conference in the Gran Via de Fira de Barcelona, ??L’Hospitalet de Llobregat.

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set a new record with 75,000 attendees, up from 72,000 the previous edition, so far there are 10,000 pre-registrations, down 15% from the same time a year ago, and an economic impact is estimated at City of EUR 356 million and create 7,220 temporary jobs.

For the first time both

Fira de Barcelona 98.0000 square meters will address: – Empower industries and 4YearsFromNow – L’Hospitalet to the MWC and Montjuïc with two events on which the CEO of the GSMA – Mobile industry association driving the event – John Hofman, stressed that no conference attendees want to steal, but complementary, and will feature exhibitors and independent entries

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MWC, with the participation of 1,800 companies – which is more than double that of the first edition, the 2006 -. almost a hundred and ministerial delegations

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participate, but will have its own stand, as happened in the previous edition, and this year there will be a strengthening of public transport and bus connection with hotels to avoid crowds of people as those of the previous edition in hours beginning and end of the show.

During the conference you will watch developments in mobile technologies, with special involvement of the deployment of LTE (4G) and flexible materials, and also releases terminals of all sizes, highlighting the proliferation of devices as watch or bracelet – closely linked to health and sports -.

also gain weight alliances in content for mobile terminals, some of which will be announced during the conference that since I landed in Barcelona in 2006 has generated a cumulative economic impact of 2,100 million euros and generated 46,700 jobs.