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Apple Inc’s App Store had operating margins of almost 78 per cent in fiscal year 2019, according to testimony from an Epic Games Inc expert witness based on documents obtained from the iPhone maker. The figure comes from Ned Barnes, a financial and economics researcher, who said he obtained documents …

While India battles with a bigger Covid crisis in 2021, people have been channeling their anger and anxiety on social media informing about the mismanagement by administration and shortage of Covid essentials in various states. While the country also witnessed the positive side of social media when good Samaritans came …

When NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter completed its third flight in April, its ground team met the last of the three objectives needed to call the technology demo project a success. That’s why for its fourth test flight, the Ingenuity team wants to push the machine’s performance envelope on Mars by flying …

By Express News Service Taking stock of the current COVID-19 situation, a few health-tech and wellness organisations have joined the fight against it, each in its own unique way. We list three here: HealthCube Founded by Ramanan Laxminarayan, HealthCube is a point-of-care diagnostics solution provider, which launched COVIDSAFE, a holistic Covid-19 risk …

Georges Archibald Contributor Georges Archibald is head of Americas at the Apex Group. Almost two centuries ago, gold prospectors in California set off one of the greatest rushes for wealth in history. Proponents of socially conscious investing claim fund managers will start a similar stampede when they discover that environmental, …

Enlarge / Do not anger the penguin, for it is long of memory and slow to forgive. Last week, senior Linux kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman announced that all Linux patches coming from the University of Minnesota would be summarily rejected by default. This policy change came as a result of three …

Kaavya Chandrasekaran / The Economic Times: upGrad, an online education startup focused on the post K-12 space, raises $120M from Singapore’s sovereign fund Temasek, sources say at a $575M-$675M valuation  —  Education technology startup upGrad, promoted by media entrepreneur Ronnie Screwvala, said it has raised $120 million … News Source …

Ehtereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin posted a proof of transfer of 100 ETH and 100 MKR, worth approximately $606,110 (roughly Rs. 4.5 crores), for use in COVID-19 relief in India. Ethereum, the open-source blockchain software founded in 2014, is used to build contracts on the blockchain, and has recently been in …

IT firm HCL Technologies on Friday posted a 6.1 per cent decline in consolidated net profit to ₹2,962 crore for the March quarter. The Noida-headquartered firm has also announced a special interim dividend of ₹10 per share to mark the ₹10 billion annual revenue milestone. The IT major had registered …

Logitech has, quite predictably, released new versions of its Combo Touch keyboard case for Apple’s newly announced iPad Pros. The company introduced the accessory for the 2019 iPad, 2019 iPad Air and 2017 iPad Pro last year, a few days before Apple rolled out iPadOS 13.4 with its full mouse …