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INTERNET SECURITY A New Breed of Hacker

HIGH-SPEED DELIVERY China’s New Rail Age

QUALCOMM’S VISION Winning the Chip Wars

Andrew Mason

Group Strategist

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Features 28 An ATM That Detects Lies

54 Swiss Luxury

A major Russian bank is developing an ATM that uses

Swiss Development Group is bringing a new wave of

voice-analysis software to detect nervousness or emotional

property development to Switzerland – the ultra-luxury,

distress, possible indications that a credit applicant is being

zero-maintenance kind.

economical with the truth.

32 Canadian Pipeline Hits a Snag The proposed Keystone XL pipeline that aims to move oil from Alberta’s tar sands to the US has been under intense scrutiny by environmentalists.

38 High-tech Customer Service Digitally-driven service enhancements are opening up totally new avenues of customer service that were previously only available to large companies.

42 Qualcomm’s Futuristic Vision Paul Jacobs has taken Qualcomm to the top of the mobile chip market. But his ambition stretches way beyond the confines of mobile phones.

46 Mannequins with Personality During the recession, retailers cut costs and that included window dressing and mannequins. But that has changed as retailers target a narrower customer base.

50 High-Speed Development China’s bullet train network is giving the country a competitive edge as it makes inland provinces accessible to big business.

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Cover Story 22 The Golden Nugget

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Essentials 59 Sean Fitzpatrick’s New Zealand Guide The Rugby World Cup in New Zealand will be a national carnival, according to the former All Blacks captain. Sean Fitzpatrick takes us on a tour of the country he loves.

64 Boutique Hotels Aim High There are many boutique hotels in the works around the world. While many analysts believe there is a market for them, others feel that we will soon see mergers and rationalisation in the boutique sector.

68 Monuments to Ancient Life The Chinese province of Fujian boasts around 3,000 tulou, ancient buildings that housed whole clans. But they are now

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falling into disrepair as young people migrate for jobs or seek modern apartments.

72 Creative Vibrancy Karim Rashid wants to make the world a more fun and stimulating place, and that ethos is borne out in each of the 3,000 objects that bear his name.

76 Counting Planets The Kepler spacecraft has so far detected 1,235 candidate planets, of which 15 are confirmed. The more planets are found, the higher is the chance of another Earth-like planet existing.

80 Big Screen Paris

Departments

Woody Allen’s latest film shows off his love for the ‘City

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of Lights’ as he takes viewers on a romantic tour of its

World business in a nutshell.

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attractions.

84 Is Hacking On the Rise?

Spotting and analysing business trends.

20 Column: Ian Sample Repairing Genetic Defects

There has been a spate of high-profile hacking incidents on the internet in recent months. Is this a sign of things to come or merely a blip?

88 Other Business Portfolio takes a light-hearted look at the latest business news.

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billion is the amount the Bank of America and its Countrywide unit have agreed on to make good the settlement claims of investors who took a beating on mortgage bonds that were issued by Countrywide before the housing market collapsed. At one point investors feared BofA would have to pay $50 billion.

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billion has been earmarked

by Sweden’s Ikea to build 510,000-square-metres of malls in China as the largest homefurnishings company expands in the world’s fastest growing major economy. Leading foreign retailers including Walmart and Tesco are buying land in China as rents climb.

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million is the princely price for a special-edition Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport L’Or Blanc designed for a UAE businessman who boasts a collection of 800 cars. The unique car is the first vehicle to features special porcelain accents engineered by leading German-based Koeniglliche-Porzzellan-Manufaktur.

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$11 Winter Olympic bid has been won by Pyeongchang in South Korea. This will bring the Winter Games to Asia for only the third time since its debut in 1924.

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BAIDU AND MICROSOFT JOIN FORCES Microsoft has struck a deal with the biggest Chinese search

in the search market, pulled its popular search engine out of

engine, Baidu.com, to offer web search services in English. Baidu

mainland China a year and a half ago. Baidu dominates the

is primarily a Chinese-language search engine.

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Google continues to be available on the mainland, though its search engine, which operates in English and Chinese, was moved last year to Hong Kong. But lately, Google’s search engine and its email service, Gmail, have become more difficult to connect to on the mainland.

Google declined to comment on the partnership between Baidu and Microsoft. Google believes its biggest business opportunity in China is selling ads to Chinese companies to show to users outside China and selling display ads to run on non-Google web sites, neither of which is dependent on search.

Chinese advertisers spent $1.7 billion on display ads last year, one of the highest such spends in the world.

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Domestic consumer demand, good macroeconomic policies and management, commodity prices, and prices of agricultural exports were identified as the main drivers of growth.

Growth by regions showed that East Africa would grow the fastest this year by 6.7 per cent, followed by West Africa with 5.9 per cent and 6.8 per cent in 2012. Central Africa was seen growing 5.3 per cent this year and 5.7 per cent in 2012, while southern Africa’s growth was forecast at 4.5 per cent, rising to 5.5 per cent in 2012. North Africa would grow the least this year, achieving a growth rate of just 0.7 per cent.

Growth was also expected to be robust in sub-Saharan Africa, with the region’s real GDP growth expected to increase to 5.5 per cent from 5.0 per cent in 2010. With the exclusion of Cote d’Ivoire, sub-Saharan Africa’s growth was forecast at 5.7 per cent in 2011.

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THERE’S NOTHING NEW IN BULK BUYING AND NEGOTIATING DISCOUNTS. BUT GROUPON DOES IT IN 47 COUNTRIES FOR MORE THAN 70 MILLION PEOPLE. IT’S AN IDEA SO SIMPLE ANYONE COULD HAVE THOUGHT OF IT. UNFORTUNATELY, ANDREW MASON GOT THERE FIRST… AND NOW HE’S SITTING ON A COMPANY WORTH $30 BILLION, REPORTS OLIVER BURKEMAN.

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Above: A Groupon team member works at the company’s headquarters in Chicago, Illinois.

Left: Mason accepts the Breakout of the Year award during this year’s annual Webby Awards in New York.

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THE IDEA WAS TO CREATE SOMETHING THAT WAS JUST AS MUCH A CITY GUIDE, OR A WAY TO PUT THE SPOTLIGHT ON INTERESTING OR UNUSUAL EXPERIENCES THAT PEOPLE WOULDN’T NORMALLY HAVE. THE DISCOUNT WOULD BE A WAY TO REDUCE THE RISK OF STEPPING OUTSIDE YOUR COMFORT ZONE AND TRYING SOMETHING NEW.

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Above: Eric Lefkofsky (R) and Brad Keywell (L) at the headquarters of Groupon. A few years ago Lefkofsky and Keywell put some seed funding behind 30-year-old Groupon founder Andrew Mason’s viral couponing concept.

Right: Mason joined the likes of Mark Zuckerberg on last year’s Young Rich List – 30 Under 30 Internet Millionaires.

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An ATM That Detects Lies A major Russian bank is developing an ATM that uses voice-analysis software to detect nervousness or emotional distress, possible indications that a credit applicant is being economical with the truth, reports Andrew Kramer.

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“One of the centre’s other products measures anger. It is already installed at the telephone call centre of the Russian national railways.”

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The proposed Keystone XL pipeline that aims to move oil from Alberta’s tar sands to the United States has been under intense scrutiny by environmentalists, reports Ian Austen.

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“The oil sands have reserves of 171.3 billion barrels, according to estimates by the provincial government of Alberta – enough to change the balance of world oil markets, some energy experts say. By comparison, Saudi Arabia has reserves of 264.2 billion barrels.”

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“Demand for oil in the United States is unlikely to fall significantly in the foreseeable future, producers in Canada are sure to look for other ways to ship their oil south if the Keystone XL project is rejected.”

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The approval of the Keystone XL pipeline has become a battleground for environmentalists who say oil sands production wastes energy and water.

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HIGH-TECH CUSTOMER SERVICE Digitally-driven service enhancements are opening up totally new avenues of customer service that were previously only available to large businesses, reports John Grossman.

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Whiteflash’s site is powered by Bold Chat, which allows customers to ask questions online.

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QUALCOMM’S FUTURISTIC VISION Paul Jacobs has taken Qualcomm to the top of the mobile chip market. But his ambition stretches way beyond the confines of mobile phones, reports Malia Wollan.

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Paul Jacobs took over from his father in 2005 and has successfully led Qualcomm to dominated the smartphone chip market.

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“Qualcomm’s strategy has been to create highfunction, lowpowered chip sets for smartphones and tablets that connect with other devices in various ways – a feat that has thus far largely eluded Intel.”

Qualcomm chips dominate the Android smartphone market with 61 per cent market share.

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Qualcomm designs and supplies CDMA chipsets, system software, network base stations, handsets, camera phones and game players to name just a few things.

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Sculptor Bill Hueg works on the tiny details of hands at Fusion Specialties, a mannequin company.

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Bets Lundeen prepares a custom mannequin of a golfing woman. The development of a mannequin costs $15,000 or more.

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Greg Amanti, right, picks up a fiberglass mannequin form as Robert Roybal fits the endpiece for an arm. Custom mannequin companies have seen their business almost double.

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High-Speed Development China’s bullet train network is giving the country a competitive edge as it makes inland provinces accessible for big business, reports Keith Bradsher.

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The Beijing-Shanghai High-Speed Railway cuts the single-way time between the two cities to under five hours.

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (C) shakes hands with the driver of the first commercial bullet train on the Beijing-Shanghai HighSpeed Railway in Beijing.

China’s bullet train services have diverted passengers from other lines that can now be used for more freight services.

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Routes of high-speed rail service Existing

Starting by July 1

Planned Qiqihar Harbin

MONGOLIA Urumqi

Shenyang

Beijing Shijiazhuang

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Taiyuan Jinan Zhengzhou

N.KOREA Qinhuangdao Tianjin

Nanjing

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Chengdu NEPAL BHUTAN Kunming INDIA

Chinese workers completed the 1,320 kilometre Beijing-Shanghai line in record time as it was only expected to open next year.

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The Du Parc Kempinski Private Residences, located on the Vaud Riviera, will be the first project that SDG is set to complete.

SWISS LUXURY The Swiss Development Group is bringing a new wave of property development to Switzerland â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the ultraluxury, zero-maintenance kind. Tracey Scott talks to its CEO about his plans to transform the premier living space in one of Europeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most prosperous countries.

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Nicolas Garner is the CEO of luxury property developer Swiss Development Group SA.

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THE BEST OF LEISURE AND LIFESTYLE

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NEW ZEALAND

GUIDE The IRB Rugby World Cup 2011 in New Zealand will be a national carnival, according to the former All Blacks captain Sean Fitzpatrick.

He tells Jim White how visitors can join the party and enjoy the country he loves.

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FITZPATRICK’S TOP FIVE Though he reckons narrowing down his choices is as tricky as turning out against South Africa on the rugby pitch, this is Sean Fitzpatrick’s top five must-dos in his homeland: 1 PLAY A ROUND OF GOLF There are more courses per capita in New Zealand than anywhere else in the world. Julian Robertson, the American billionaire, visited as an 18 year-old, backpacking around, and said he would be back one day to build the most beautiful golf courses in the world. And he has. Kauri Cliffs in the Bay of Islands is among the top 10 in the world. And Cape Kidnappers in Hawke’s Bay is simply wonderful.

2 GO WHALE WATCHING IN KAIKOURA Nature is all around you in New Zealand, but it’s at its most dramatic here, on the South Island.

3 TASTE THE WINES IN MARLBOROUGH This is the wine region where Cloudy Bay comes from. If you like new-world vintages you’re in a paradise of wine andgourmet food. I tell you, this is pure heaven.

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4 SCARE YOURSELF IN QUEENSTOWN Commercial bungee jumping was invented here by a guy called A J Hackett. Queenstown has since become the adrenalin-sport centre of the world.

Now there is every type of pursuit available to terrify yourself, from whitewater rafting to sky diving.

5 TAKE A WALK Two of the best are the Milford Track, a four-day hike, stopping in five-star lodges, and the Abel Tasman, at the top of the South Island, where you walk and kayak.

The IRB Rugby World Cup 2011 runs from September 9 to October 23.

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Queenstown is famous for its adventure tourism. Skiing, jet boating, whitewater rafting, bungy jumping, mountain biking, skateboarding, tramping and fly fishing are all found there.

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Essentials Travel Left: The All Blacks will be hoping to win their first World Cup since the inaugural event in 1987.

Below: Jet boating is an adrenaline rush in Queenstown.

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The front desk and lobby at Ink 48, a boutique hotel, in New York. In an attempt to diversify the attractiveness to travellers of hotel chains that may be mundane, big hotels are planning to open ‘boutique hotels’ to enhance the travellers experience.

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“People like things a little bit different, offbeat. And they make someone who may have a rather mundane life feel hip.”

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Since 2000, Rashid has mainly worn white with a splash of pink. He donated all his dark coloured clothes to charity.

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Rashid was inspired by the desert when he designed Switch, a restaurant in Dubai.

Left: The Nhow Hotel in Berlin, which he designed from the ground up, exhibits Rashid’s love of curves.

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COUNTING PLANETS The Kepler spacecraft has so far detected 1,235 candidate planets, of which 16 are confirmed. The more planets are found, the higher is the chance of another Earth-like planet existing, reports Ron Toft.

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Above right: Kepler found five planets within 43 days of launch. To date it has confirmed 16 planets and detected 1,235 candidate planets.

Left: A technician readies the flight segment for acoustics testing before Kepler’s launch in 2009.

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Kepler is focused on the star-rich constellations of Cygnus and Lyra in our Milky Way galaxy.

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Above: A technician works on the Kepler detector chip assembly, an integral part of the light meter.

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BIG SCREEN PARIS Woody Allen’s latest film shows off his love for the ‘City of Light’ as he takes viewers on a romantic tour of its attractions, reports Scott Adams.

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Essentials Travel “Le Bristol is one of the few innercity hotels to boast a swimming pool.

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Montmartre, the home of great artists, writers and intellectuals in the 19th and early 20th centuries, still has its flair today.

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Le Bristol is a renowned Paris hotel set on Rue du Saint Honore.

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“People he has woven his own enthusiasm for the visual arts into his latest film and there are numerous scenes related to Paris’ rich and diverse cultural heritage.”

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LE MEURICE – lemeurice.com

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LE BRISTOL – lebristol.com

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IS HACKING ON THE RISE? There has been a spate of high-profile hacking incidents on the internet in recent months. Is this a sign of things to come or merely a blip? asks Patrick Kingsley.

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to sell for £50-70,000.

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collector, who provided an original personal letter

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from Madeleine Capone Morichetti, the widow of

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Al’s brother Ralph Capone, confirming that the gun

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‘previously belonged to and was only used by Al

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Capone while he was alive’.

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May 1929, just a few months after the famous

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Valentine’s Day massacre in Chicago when seven

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Colt records indicate that the pistol was made in

people were killed in a prohibition-era clash between gangs including Capone’s.

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