According to research provided by Bloomberg and IDC, Waterloo's Canadian prospects are dimming, as that chunk of revenue, which amounts to about seven percent of its total earnings, has begun to wither, putting the company in second place behind Apple.

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The upgrade, he writes in a research note, reflects improving 2011 prospects for NAND flash memory demand, driven by tablets, smart phones and solid-state drives.

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Three of them, in a paper last December for the International Food Policy Research Institute, looked specifically at the prospects for genetically modified rice in India, Indonesia, the Philippines and Bangladesh.

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