Report on Business Magazine - January 2012
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Report on Business Magazine: The January issue
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The next billion
by Iain Marlow
Pricey tablets are wooing westerners away from their desktop PCs. But if a big gamble by Montreal tech upstart Datawind pays off, basic, inexpensive tablets will bring a whole new market online: India.
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The world's most creative cities
by Andrew Braithwaite, Steve Brearton, Omar El Akkad, Iain Marlow and Nancy Won
San Francisco? Waterloo? Yawn. The next Google or RIM is going to come from one of these five hubs, where innovative companies are blooming like they grow on trees.
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Smart to be tough, tough to be smart
by Boyd Erman
The founders of GMP Capital seeded a powerful firm by taking a deal that the banks wouldn’t. But gradually, they stepped aside. Can new CEO Harris Fricker turn the independent brokerage into Canada’s Goldman Sachs?
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Radio clash
by Susan Krashinsky
Streaming is replacing owning music, but with the big players taking their sweet time getting into Canada, Rdio is aiming to own our market
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Can Apple survive without Steve Jobs?
by Timothy Taylor
Steve Jobs has gone to the other side, and unless Apple execs can find another great leader, they may have to break out the Ouija boards
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A final jolt
by Gordon Pitts
Why did Dave Cobb ditch BC Hydro after only 16 months on the job? Because Jimmy Pattison made him an offer he couldn’t refuse
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Enchanted forestry
by Hannah Hoag
Nanocrystalline cellulose sounds like something that could make you fat. Good news: It’s a revolutionary compound made from wood pulp that is stronger than steel
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Down the drain
by Eric Reguly
The Keystone XL pipeline will drain away the oil we could be refining—and profiting from—ourselves
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Priced to clear
by Derek DeCloet
Welcome to the euro zone fire sale, where the Eiffel Tower’s naming rights are fair game. Right, Frau Merkel?
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That secure delusion
by Fabrice Taylor
Dividend stocks can shield you when bear markets attack, but if things turn really ugly, run for the hills
