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Export Online Without Frontiers: A Global Map of B2B Marketplaces

The Startup Magazine

The largest ones are Alibaba, Global Sources, DHgate, EC21, Tradekey, Asia Trade Hub, and go4WorldBusiness. Asia Trade Hub, based in India, Tradekey, based in Saudi Arabia, and EC21, based in South Korea, are the only pan-Asia marketplaces. B2B Websites in Europe. B2B Marketplaces in Asia. Not all businesses like that.

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[Review] The Rise Of The New East

YoungUpstarts

In a sweeping expose on the dynamic forces shaping the “New East”, Ben Simpfendorfer’s “ The Rise of the New East: Business Strategies for Success in a World of Increasing Complexity ” provides an in-depth view of how the economic resurgence of Asia and the Middle East are changing global markets.

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Reducing Risk And Optimising Business Opportunity In The Middle East

YoungUpstarts

In peaceful and stable countries like Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), for example, expatriates are more likely to be concerned about the state of their bank account rather than the geopolitics of the region. trillion, according to World Bank figures.

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Manjit Singh Sahota on Energy Tech Innovation in Oil and Gas Exploration

The Startup Magazine

Shell created an automated drilling system which is currently under trial in North America and Europe. Cyberattacks, sabotage, and terrorism can affect oil and gas production, as has recently been seen in Saudi Arabia. Global economic pressures drive the increasing demand for oil.

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10 Entertaining Things to Check out While You’re Waiting in Line Today

Up and Running

In today’s incredibly busy, globally interconnected world, it can be easy to unintentionally start taking things for granted. As we reported last week, this was the year of the inaugural Women’s Entrepreneurship Day during Global Entrepreneurship Week. Women can now be attorneys in Saudi Arabia. The feel-good news.

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Out of the Crisis #16: Robert Schooley on why we weren't prepared, long-term thinking, and how to make decisions for the greater good.

Startup Lessons Learned

We then turned around and said, "Well, we'll close the door to China" and forgot we had a front door to Europe. The same thing happened with MERS, the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome 10 years later that occurred initially in Saudi Arabia and spread to a little offshoot into Korea. Put your grandmother in a hotel.