Kista
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Kista (Swedish: /'ɕiːsta/) is a district of Stockholm Municipality in Sweden belonging to Rinkeby-Kista borough. Located northwest of central Stockholm, Kista is divided by the Stockholm Metro blue line into a western part which is primarily residential, and an eastern part occupied by commercial ventures, mostly in the telecommunication and computer industry. Kista hosts the IT University, a joint venture between the Royal Institute of Technology and Stockholm University. Because of its computer industries, Kista became referred to as Chipsta or Sweden's Silicon Valley in the 1980s.
Kista is named after an old farm, still located in the area. The construction of the modern parts were started in the 1970s. The streets in Kista are named after towns and famous people from Denmark and Iceland.
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The construction of the industrial section of Kista began in the 1970s with companies such as SRA (Svenska Radio Aktiebolaget, now a part of Ericsson), RIFA (later Ericsson Microelectronics and now Infineon Technologies) and IBM Svenska AB (the Swedish branch of IBM). The number of employees in Eastern Kista now ranges between 25,000 and 35,000.
Ericsson is headquartered in Kista since 2003.
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