January 2009 Archives

What's the one social group of people that combines virtually every race, gender and age across countries and continents? It's all of us internet users, of course. We represent the fastest growing consumer base planet wide, and this is just the beginning.

That's the reason why Internet Marketing is the most promising field to link service providers with consumers. It doesn't matter what you're selling, whether it's shoes or plain information, IM tactics like search engine marketing, social media, linking and brand building among thousands of other strategies can guarantee global reach and exposure. Those who saw the possibilities of the World Wide Web early on are now leading the profit game even in troubling economic times. The government of Dubai certainly picked up on the clues early on when in 1999, it called for plans to build the Dubai Internet City, a free zone equipped with the latest technological infrastructure that would make it the biggest Internet and Communications Technology centre in the Middle East.

The world is coming to Dubai. Bolstered and astounding as this may sound, it's an accurate claim on how the emirate's progressive economics is stealing the global spotlight and getting some of the most powerful commercial entities to fight for a stake in Dubai's future. Consider the recent announcement of Nasdaq Dubai, formerly known as the Dubai International Foreign Exchange. It's more than a clever scheme of rebranding. The new name involves an unprecedented gateway of multilateral exchange opportunities that could make the traditional merger methods of market economy the stock of economic history.

Hollywood has always been synonymous with California's glitziest and most glamorous hot spots. From its earliest days the industry has been at home in the many cities and exclusive celebrity communities that dot around Sunset Boulevard. But the current financial crisis has left some of the biggest studios scrambling for funds. It seems that Tinseltown's biggest movers may be considering moving Hollywood abroad, and Dubai happens to be one of the most promising locations bidding to play a part in this change.