On the night of February 18, 2011, US President Barack Obama met with leaders of major IT corporations, including Apple CEO Steve Jobs , Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg , Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz, Twitter Chairman Dick Costello and Google Eric Schmidt . reports this Agence France-Presse .

The President held a business lunch with Silicon Valley leaders and discussed options for working together to invest in innovative areas of American industry. In addition, Obama paid special attention to the issue of employment, expressing his readiness to provide protection and benefits to companies that will provide American citizens with jobs.

The participants also discussed investments in the educational sector. Obama said he hopes Silicon Valley's biggest companies will continue to prioritize investing in Americans' creativity and resourcefulness, creating breakthrough new technologies and promoting new ways of communicating information, according to presidential spokesman Jay Carney.

US President Barack Obama is an ardent supporter of the introduction of new technologies. Obama is also an active Twitter user - his microblog has more than 6.5 million followers. In addition, he has a page on the social network Facebook, which is positively rated by more than 18 million users.

Obama meets with Silicon Valley leaders