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E-Business and Cloud Computing: A New Practice or a Trend

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Innovation in the High-Tech Economy

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This paper presents literature review that is currently conducted to look into e-Business development with the emergence of cloud computing concept. The discussions in this paper includes the e-Business development, opportunities and challenges, and how the cloud computing is perceived in the e-Business context. This paper also presents the methodology that will be used to gather data to see how far the cloud computing has influenced e-Business for SMEs in Malaysia. Outcome from this research will be a set of recommendation for deploying cloud computing in e-Business environment.

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  1. University of Tenaga Nasional, Selangor, Malaysia

    Waleed Noori Hussein & Rosnafisah Sulaiman

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  1. Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau, People's Republic of China

    Pang Chuan

  2. CeBA Canada, Vanier, Ontario, Canada

    Vasil Khachidze

  3. Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau, People's Republic of China

    Ivan K.W. Lai

  4. Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau, People's Republic of China

    Yide Liu

  5. CeBA Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

    Sohail Siddiqui

  6. CeBA Canada, Kanata, Ontario, Canada

    Tim Wang

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Hussein, W.N., Sulaiman, R. (2013). E-Business and Cloud Computing: A New Practice or a Trend. In: Chuan, P., Khachidze, V., Lai, I., Liu, Y., Siddiqui, S., Wang, T. (eds) Innovation in the High-Tech Economy. Contributions to Economics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41585-2_6

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