The company said it would establish an office in Silicon Valley to support the new fund and that it would pursue a global investment scope. The conference is endorsed by ETSI and organized by UpperSide, publishers of ATM Perspectives and Local Loop Report newsletters. Registration and conference information is available at tel. Douglas Adams, author of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and founder of The Digital Village, will deliver a keynote address on how the Internet and other breakthroughs are transforming the ways in which we work, live, think and order pizza. The conference is part of the ATM Year 98 series, also being held in San Jose, California in June and in Singapore in October.
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