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Aug 2023
51m 56s

Amazon and Apple serve up latest results

Bbc World Service
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Tech giants Amazon and Apple have released their latest results, tech writer Alison van Diggelen in San Francisco and Sushma Ramachandran, a business journalist and columnist for The Tribune newspaper in New Delhi, join the programme to go over the numbers. In India, the government is restricting imports of electronic items such as laptops, tablets and phon ... Show More
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