[4] In August 2000, Siemens Business Services (SBS), Cisco, and Sun Microsystems received Dubai Internet City’s first major infrastructure contracts.

[5] As of 2019, DIC housed over 1,600 companies[4] and has become the regional base of many of the world's news agencies as well as the main digital content generator for Arabic media.

[7] In the same year, Intel announced the opening of its first artificial intelligence research and development center at Dubai Internet City.

[14] The economic rules of DIC allow companies to be exempt from all taxes and customs duty for a period of 50 years guaranteed by law.

[3] These freedoms have led many global information technology firms, such as Facebook,[16] LinkedIn,[17] Google,[4] Dell,[18] Intel,[19] Huawei,[20] Samsung,[21] SAP,[22] Microsoft,[23] IBM,[24] Oracle Corporation,[25] Tata Consultancy,[26] 3M,[27] Sun Microsystems,[28] Cisco,[29] HP,[30] Nokia,[31] Cognizant,[32] Accenture,[33] Hisense[34] and as well as UAE-based companies such as Tecom Group,[35] Ducont,[36] to move their regional base to the DIC.