Originally planned as a land of socialism, Nowa Huta used to be a centre of Polish industry with state-owned factories. Today, however, the post-communist area is the location of several big, modern companies. Interia.pl, with the headquarters in Nowa Huta, is a large Polish web portal with the estimated value of $1,580,043 USD and the approximate number of visits per day exceeding 741,000.
Interia website offers, among others, email accounts, free web hosting, and domain name registration. The list of its 130 services includes the national and international headlines in the Polish language followed by business news, sports, motorisation and new technologies, as well as online games, blogs, chat rooms, internet forums and a shopping arcade, not to mention streaming radio and Internet television channels. Interia.pl hosts one of Polish online encyclopaedias, the “Encyklopedia Internautica”, and the thematic catalogue of websites. It also features weather info, astrology, virtual greeting cards popular locally, and hundreds of online chats. The portal was created by the ComArch Management IT corporation (listed on Warsaw Stock Exchange) and the RMF FM radio. The place is closed for visitors.