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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The guy who runs the kirana store in my colony has a wounded look about him because I don’t go there anymore. Things were not good between us even without that.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Berkshire Hathaway’s filing of its fourth-quarter equity holdings expected Tuesday will be scrutinized for any moves by Warren Buffett and his investment lieutenants during Buffett’s final quarter at the helm of the company. Buffett handed the reins to new CEO Greg Abel at the end of 2025, but remains chairman.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Facing soaring memory-chip prices, the world’s biggest electronics companies are staring at a list of unpalatable responses: charging consumers more, eating the costs or rejiggering product specs. Such is the supply-chain disruption wrought by the global drive into artificial intelligence, which requires fleets of data centers with servers needing gargantuan amounts of memory.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. As fourth-quarter Big Tech earnings approached, the usual discussions of sales growth and profits took a back seat to the flood of capital expenditures on artificial-intelligence data centers. In 2025, four companies–Amazon.com, Microsoft, Alphabet and Meta Platforms—spent over $400 billion, roughly the gross domestic product of Pakistan, according to the International Monetary Fund.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. So iPhone buyers aren’t waiting around for better artificial-intelligence features. For Apple that is both good and bad news.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. My dearest Xiaomi SU7 Max, It’s been about a month since we were last together. Now, every time I climb back into my Ford Mustang Mach-E, I can’t stop thinking about you—your long range, your modular interior, your absurdly large infotainment screen.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Berkshire Hathaway Chairman Warren Buffett is a longtime student of the silver market. The company made a sizable investment in silver in 1997 and 1998 when the metal was around $5 an ounce.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. All over the world, millions of people have been doing something in private that’s now spilling into public spaces, on our sidewalks and in our open-plan offices alike. They’re…talking to their gadgets.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. When investing, the allure of stellar returns often becomes the primary driver of decision-making. As investors celebrate a mutual fund scheme that delivers a 15% annual return, only a few stop to ask: at what cost? At a time when financial markets are turbulent, you need to weigh risks and returns.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The Magnificent Seven is now the Mag Five. Or is it the Fab Four? Investors are no longer grouping the market’s big tech stocks together in quite the same way.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Here's what caught our eye this week: Apple, the company that prides itself on building everything in-house, just handed over the keys to Siri's brain to its longtime frenemy, Google. Yes, you read that right.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: On Monday, Alphabet became the fourth-ever company to hit a market capitalization of $4 trillion, after announcing a deal with iPhone-maker Apple to power the latter’s AI assistant, Siri. In the week leading up to it, Google’s parent also overtook Apple to become the second-largest company in the world.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Apple’s board has waived its age cap so two members, including Chair Art Levinson, can stand for re-election. The tech giant’s board said in a Thursday filing it determined it would be in the best interests of Apple and its shareholders to ask Levinson and audit committee chair Ron Sugar to stand for re-election.

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2026 is poised to be a year of monumental moments, marked by a summer of Assembly elections in India, an intensifying global space race, and major sporting events — notably the FIFA World Cup and the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup.The year also marks the US completing 250 years of independence, Bangladesh heading to the polls for the first time since former PM Sheikh Hasina’s ouster, India hosting the 18th Brics Summit, Apple turning 50, and the long-awaited release of GTA VI, the open-world action-adventure franchise. All of these set the stage for a packed year ahead.

Apple Inc. has notched another feat in India – fuelled by easy credit, cashbacks and aspirational Indians, the iPhone 16 is now the country’s highest-selling smartphone, eclipsing the most popular budget model from China’s Vivo.The iPhone 16 series, launched about 15 months ago, sold 6.5 million units in the first 11 months of 2025, according to data from Gurugram-based Counterpoint Research.

With this acquisition, Coforge expects to earn $2 billion a year by the next fiscal year. All of this is in anticipation of AI and its benefits.Coforge, however, isn’t the only one.

₹15,000-crore fruit economy, trapping apple growers in a cycle of rising input costs and recurring losses, even as the promise of crop insurance remains largely theoretical.Weighed down by low enthusiasm after another season of heavy losses, fruit growers have begun the new farming cycle, pruning apple trees in their orchards, amid Chilai Kalan, Kashmir's harshest forty days of winter.In Allaiepora village of Pulwama, Khursheed Ahmad Allaie tells Mint that the apple growers who once invested heavily in establishing high-density orchards, converting paddy fields into apple farms, now find themselves at a loss, as the impacts of the climate crisis have intensified over the past decade.“Global warming has changed everything. Heatwaves bring disease.

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. The company ditched plans last year for its Cruise robotaxi program after spending $10 billion and a decade on its development. It has suffered setbacks around its EV and autonomous-driving strategies.

Smartwatches are getting smarter – at least, health-wise.These devices, so far largely considered lifestyle accessories with basic fitness-tracking features mostly shunned by medical practitioners, are increasingly receiving medical certifications from the Centre—making them health devices that alert users against issues such as heart rate fluctuations, sleep disorders and blood pressure anomalies.On 4 December, Apple launched hypertension tracking on its latest Apple Watch Series 11 smartwatch. While the feature does not give a direct blood pressure readout, it monitors a user’s blood oxygen, stress levels and other heart-related parameters to notify them that they may have a potential hypertension issue.The company received government approval to offer this clinical-grade feature in late November, a person aware of the development told Mint, making it only the second consumer-grade smartwatch until now to be approved by New Delhi.Hypertension implies high blood pressure, a condition that potentially damages heart tissues in the long run.