Dubai's Internet City
from the attracting-foreign-investmnet dept
An interesting look at an operation in Dubai, of the United Arab Emirates to set up a huge "Internet City" to attract foreign tech companies to open up operations there. So far, it sounds like it's been fairly successful. They've set up a very modern campus, and help out with everything possible to make it easy for a company to move there. They even help push through visa applications faster. Of course, the biggest selling factor to tech companies is that Internet City is a "Free Zone", meaning that they don't have to pay any local taxes, and don't have to worry about currency restrictions. I wonder if other countries will try to set up similar "Internet Cities" to build up a technology center.
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spam city?
It might make a good offshore haven for porno operators, oil company tax shelters, stuff like that.
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