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The ever-growing Internet economy should be less susceptible to a U.S. economic downturn than many other industries, with more and more people shopping and doing business online, a group of commentators and businesspeople said Friday.

Posted on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 20:39:41 GMT at http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/redirec...say_1.html

But the economy is worsening offline including recessions happening due to the US. Microsoft are part of the problem in the global recession but this will be a piece of cake for those in India, etc as they will still get paid the same wage as businesses still receive a lot of profit in hiring people from India, etc. But price of food has increased so online food shops arent part of the strong economy online, its the cheap price of items such as computers, etc.