Francesco Carlà is an Italian journalist, professor, investor and entrepreneur. Among the various activities in the financial field, he is known to the public to be the founder and CEO of the software house

Simulmondo ''Simulmondo'' was an Italian software house from Bologna. Specialized video game developer and publisher, it has produced about 150 videogames for Commodore 64, Amiga, PC and Atari ST. Originally founded in 1988 by Francesco Carlà and Ricca ...

, the videogame leader in Italy at the turn of the 80s and 90s.

Biography

His career started in 1983, when he began working for television and radio broadcasts, including

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and

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, as an expert in computer technologies and softwares. He conduct the TV program "Videogames Weekend" for

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. After graduating with the first thesis on videogames history in the world, he began to work in the videogame field. Initially he wrote for several years on a column on MCmicrocomputer magazine. Subsequently, in 1987, he founded

, one of the first videogame software houses in Italy. In the following years, he will also be known for being a producer of several videogames, including "Bocce", knows as the first Italian videogame and some series of graphic adventures starring

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and Spiderman. Overall, the company will produce about 150 videogames in just over 10 years. In 1995 he began to take an interest in online finance, creating a free financial newsletter. Noting the interest from the financial newsletter members, in 1999 he founded FinanzaWorld. Since 2000 he has published several books, mainly in the economic-financial field, and since 2005 he has been dealing with some columns, this time in newspapers such as

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and

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. For three years he was among the authors and the host of Netstocks, on the satellite channel

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, a television column dedicated to the New Economy. He also edited the Soldi e felicità (Money and Happiness) section for the Italian edition of Vanity Fair. He was a professor in Theories and Techniques of New Media, eCulture and Financial Communication at the

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until 2008 and he was professor of Communication Systems and Technologies at

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in Rome from 1996 to 2002.

Video games

The list can be consulted in the following page, Simulmondo titles, in every title he the director/producer, and in many games like ''I Play: 3D Soccer'', ''Simulman'' and ''SoccerChamp'' he was also the creator.

Books

* ''Space Invaders. La vera storia dei videogames'', Interaction libri, 1993 ** ''Space Invaders. La vera storia dei videogames'', seconda edizione, Castelvecchi Edizioni, 1996 * ''Trading online. La guida. I principi della finanza democratica. Dal Nasdaq al nuovo mercato'', Apogeo, 2000 * ''Simulmondo'', Apogeo, 2001 * ''Italia-google. Alla ricerca dell'innovazione digitale'', Edizioni FAG, 2006 * ''La Finanza Democratica. La guida completa per diventare investitori intelligenti'', Edizioni Sonda, 2009

References

Bibliography

*AA.VV., ''Annuario dei giornalisti italiani 2012'', Ordine dei Giornalisti, 2012, p. 686. {{DEFAULTSORT:Carla, Francesco Living people 20th-century Italian businesspeople 20th-century Italian journalists Italian male journalists Italian company founders Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century Italian journalists Academic staff of the IULM University of Milan Academic staff of the Sapienza University of Rome 20th-century Italian male writers

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