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"Business-to-consumer gets all the press because people like to read about it. Business-to-business is really the backbone of the US and the world economy and that's where probably 80 per cent of this business is coming from."

- Intel CEO Craig Barrett, who also predicted that the number of Internet users would increase six-fold to one billion within five years.