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To subscribe to the magazine, click here . But even though it's getting easier to do on-line business transactions, many firms are still struggling to adapt to this new way of doing things. That's why a new breed of companies is rising up to provide the essential tools of e-trade. By Charles Bickers. Yong Voon Fee envisions the business world of the future as a series of Internet-based market places.