Report on Business Magazine: The January issue

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Report on Business Magazine: The January issue

Published Thursday, Dec. 29, 2011 6:45PM EST

Last updated Friday, Dec. 30, 2011 7:31AM EST

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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

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