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Article: BUDDING e-BIZ IN THE MIDDLE EAST.(electronic commerce)
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- The Middle East
- Article date:
- September 1, 2001
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Few would argue that the Internet offers enormous potential and Opportunities for organisations that want to conduct business electronically. In the Middle East, though, with the exception of some Web sites and internal Intranets hosted by portals like Arabia Online, Nawal and UAEinteract, only a select few companies have actually integrated and exploited the powers of the Internet with their strategic business processes.
The number of Internet users in the Middle East has topped two million, a year-on-year growth rate of almost 42 per cent, according to ISP estimates. This annual count projected the number of users would exceed five million by 2003. The two ...