Apple Inc. has filed suit in China challenging Qualcomm Inc.’s fees for technology used in smartphones two years after Chinese regulators fined the chipmaker for its licensing practices. Two lawsuits filed by the iPhone maker accuse Qualcomm of abusing its control over essential technology to charge excessive licensing fees, a ... Read More »
Apple Inc. has filed suit in China challenging Qualcomm Inc.’s fees for technology used in smartphones two years after Chinese regulators fined the chipmaker for its licensing practices. Two lawsuits filed by the iPhone maker accuse Qualcomm of abusing its control over essential technology to charge excessive licensing fees, a ... Read More »
INTERVIEW The Christmas gift-buying season may be over, but Wedgwood products- and their potential to bring pleasure to the receiver- are eternal. From tea and dinner sets to crystal glasses- all Wedgwood stores offer a wonderland of sophistication and playful elegance. Last year a branch of Wedgwood was opened in ... Read More »
Imagine a world in a glass. The deep, dark earth, lush green plants and even tiny living beings all living and breathing in a bottle. This is not a modern-day Alice in Wonderland scene but terrariums or as horticulturist and gardeningentrepreneur Vrinda Keshavcalls it, “poetry in a glass”. It’s a ... Read More »
Among the myriad of objections leveled at Betsy DeVos, US president Donald Trump’s pick to lead American public education, the most stark is the fact that she’s never actually attended a public high school or university. Nor have her four children. The criticism becomes all the sharper when looking at ... Read More »
Imagine this: you are travelling for work to London and staying in an apartment rented through Airbnb. As you hail the Uber cab for your business meeting, your phone beeps an urgent message and you swipe your finger on the fingerprint scanner to read the notification. You learn that a ... Read More »
* Says it to invest 10 million yuan in a Beijing-based tech firm and to hold 5.3 percent stake in it after investment Source text in Chinese: goo.gl/1IeoLl Further company Coverage: (Beijing Headline News) [Source:-Reuters] Read More »
Repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act has been considered the new Trump administration’s top priority. But you wouldn’t know that from the new president’s earliest speech. President Donald Trump’s brief inaugural address mentioned many of the issues he raised repeatedly on the campaign trail — jobs, immigration and trade ... Read More »
Human intelligence quite obviously has some genetic component. Genes do constrain our fate, as does luck, even if development matters more. The way that our capacities develop is profoundly influenced by the environment and by the social situation in which a child grows up. Genetic influence is not genetic ... Read More »
Business fliers in India drew a travel bill of US$29.6 billion (Rs2,01,909 crore) in 2015, making it among the world’s top 10 countries in spending on business travel, said a white paper released in Mumbai on Wednesday. While China topped the list followed by the US, Germany, Japan and the ... Read More »
The real estate sector of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) suffered a loss of around Rs9,100 crore as the residential market sales fell in the last three months after demonetisation. The state government too lost at least Rs460 crore as stamp duty during the period between October and December 2016, ... Read More »
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has taken an equity stake of an undisclosed amount in Genius Brands International. The investment was announced Wednesday along with an expansion of last year’s home entertainment distribution agreement to include the worldwide home entertainment marketing and distribution of Genius Brands’ Kid Genius and Baby Genius ... Read More »
