Vinton Cerf is visiting Bulgaria to look for opportunities to open Google Data Centers overthere as read in:
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=65838

Strange : Is all the Google staf is travelling for all Europe?
In each country, they annonce something new :
- R&D Center in France
- Data Center in Bulgaria
- something new in Spain (I don't remember what)

so, Lobby powaaaa...

There is a positive trend for Bulgaria. SAP has an R&D center, Hewlett Packard has opened contact center in Bulgaria, there are rumors that Apple could enter...

Hewlett Packard opens contact center in Bulgaria
http://news.dnevnik.bg/print.php?id=7860

Apple pulls back from India support center
"Long term, it is probably too expensive to use an all-U.S.-based workforce to handle these operations, said Wu, who speculated that the company could look at countries such as the Philippines, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic or Turkey, regions known for having large numbers of English speakers."
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/14750899.htm

Inside SAP Labs Bulgaria
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=42683659531829972&q=sap%2Bbulgaria