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Bharti Airtel, one of India's leading telecommunications service providers, has launched its IPTV service in 2,000 cities across India. Customers can access an extensive library of on-demand content from 29 major streaming apps, including Netflix, Apple TV+, Amazon Prime Video, SonyLiv, and Zee5. The service also includes 600 popular television channels and high-speed Wi-Fi, with plans beginning at Rs 699. As an introductory offer, all Airtel customers will receive up to 30 days of free service upon purchasing an IPTV plan, which can be activated via the Airtel Thanks App.

Apple, Tesla and Ford Motor are among companies contributing the most to recently lowered estimates for the quarter, along with some insurers, whose projections have been hurt by fires in California early this year, according to Tajinder Dhillon, senior research analyst at LSEG. S&P 500 forecasts for the first quarter of 2025 have fallen by 4.5 percentage points since January 1, the largest downward revision since the fourth quarter of 2023, he said. Earnings growth for S&P 500 companies is now seen at 7.7% year-over-year, which would be the lowest since 2023's third quarter and a big decline from 17.1% in the fourth quarter of 2024, based on Friday's LSEG data. While a handful of companies have already reported on the quarter, the unofficial start of the first-quarter season is still weeks away.

As a child growing up in the 1980s on the outskirts of London, they appeared for a month or so to herald the arrival of the hottest time of the year. Their air of rare luxury during the brief height of the English summer helps explain their indelible association with the Wimbledon tennis tournament, where more than two million are consumed each year. How things have changed. My own children are likely to grow up thinking of them the way I think of apples or bananas — affordable, year-round fruits, barely more exotic than potatoes. This is all due to remarkable innovation in recent decades that has turned a once-rare crop into a harvest on the scale of the global coffee or leather trades. It’s also a sign of how such progress can make efforts to protect the environment harder.

Criterion Collection has announced physical media releases of the film, with pre-orders available before the official release date.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The leader of a war-torn African nation has put a secret deal on the table for President Trump: Help his country defeat a powerful rebel force in exchange for access to a trove of minerals needed by U.S. high-tech firms.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Comparison advertising is getting more confrontational as brands work harder to catch consumers’ attention, while the general tone of social media lowers the barrier to trading insults. Attack ads, of course, are almost as old as advertising itself.

Amazon Prime Video has confirmed that House of David will return for a second season. The decision comes before the Season 1 finale on April 3. The series attracted 22 million viewers in its first 17 days. The series tells the story of David, played by Michael Iskander. David is an outcast teenager who is chosen as the new king by the prophet Samuel, portrayed by Stephen Lang. The current king, Saul, played by Ali Suliman, struggles with his pride and begins to lose control. Also Read: Mistletoe Murders Season 2: What we know about renewal

Good American Family is a new television series produced by Calamity Jane and 20th Television. It will be available for streaming in the US and internationally on different platforms. The series is based on real-life events and explores multiple perspectives of the Natalia Grace case.

1923 Season 2 will be released on March 23, 2025. It will be available on Paramount+ at 12 a.m. ET, 9 p.m. PT, 2 a.m. Brazil Time, 5 a.m. UK Time, 6 a.m. Central Europe Time, 10 a.m. Indian Standard Time, 4 p.m. Australian Time and 6 p.m. New Zealand Time. 1923 Season 2 is available exclusively on Paramount+. The episode focuses on the search for Teonna. Alexandra and Spencer will be on separate trains, adjusting to their situations.

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global markets, hit by a wave of economic and geopolitical challenges, including a reset of tariffs by US President Donald Trump. In a world where every other prediction seems gloomy, Warren Buffett, whose net worth surged by $21 billion this year — saw the biggest gain among all the 500 billionaires tracked by the Bloomberg index. Buffett's resilience is even more striking when we consider the fact that only 4 of the top 15 billionaires managed to grow their wealth this year. This was possible due to a strong surge of Berkshire Hathaway's stock price, currently trading near record highs.

Apple will be exporting from India, with shipments of two models starting from April in small quantities, with a ramp up expected in the next 3-4 months, industry executives aware of the matter told ET. Apple’s contract manufacturer Foxconn is assembling AirPods at its new Hyderabad facility. Foxconn had announced an investment of $400 million to set up the factory in August 2023. “Apple is making small quantities of the base AirPods models — AirPods 4 and AirPods 4 (with Active Noise Cancellation) for exports to markets like the United States, Europe and others from the Foxconn facility at Hyderabad,” said an industry executive aware of the matter.

«Production of Airpods is going to start in India at Foxconn's Hyderabad facility. It will begin from April but it will be only for exports as of now,» an industry source told PTI. Foxconn had approved USD 400 million, about Rs 3,500 crore, to set up the factory in August 2023.

India and New Zealand on Sunday announced resumption of negotiations for a proposed free trade agreement to boost economic ties. India and New Zealand began negotiating the Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (CECA) in April 2010 to boost trade in goods, services, and investment. However, after nine rounds of discussions, the talks stalled in 2015. «The two nations are pleased to announce the launch of negotiations for a comprehensive and mutually beneficial India-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement (FTA) negotiations,» the commerce ministry said. The announcement was made after the meeting of Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal and Todd McClay, New Zealand's Minister for Trade and Investment. Prime Minister of New Zealand Christopher Luxon is here on a four-day visit from March 16. «The India-New Zealand FTA negotiations aim to achieve balanced outcomes that enhance supply chain integration and improve market access,» it said.

US recession. A raging tariff war. Supply chains in disarray. Companies grappling with uncertainty. Governments on tenterhooks. It hasn't even been two months since Donald Trump was sworn in as US President and it has been more dramatic than an episode of his reality show The Apprentice. On March 5, Trump underlined this with his plan forreciprocal tariffs on countries such as India and China. “Whatever they tariff us, other countries, we will tariff them. That’s reciprocal, back and forth,” Trump said in his first address to the joint session of Congress.

Net profit for October-December for Apple's top iPhone assembler and Nvidia's AI server maker came in at T$46.33 billion ($1.41 billion), missing analysts' average forecast of T$54.4 billion, according to an LSEG consensus estimate of 15 analysts. Foxconn said in January its fourth-quarter revenue jumped 15.2% to a record for that quarter on strong sales of AI servers.

iPhone SE released a few years ago, but won’t be enough to reverse a China slide, according to analyst firm IDC. The market tracker found sales of the iPhone 16e were 60% stronger in its opening three days versus the iPhone SE from 2022. But that won’t be enough to alter the forecast that Apple’s sales in China will decline about 2% overall this year. “The competition from Android will be even stronger, strengthened by the national China subsidies which will benefit Android significantly more than Apple,” said Nabila Popal, IDC senior director. The new $599 iPhone 16e replaces the $429 iPhone SE, making the challenge in China tougher when it comes to fending off budget Android alternatives. The device includes only one rear camera, limited base storage and insufficient AI features, making it a tougher sell in the region. The Chinese government has set aside 300 billion yuan (in excess of $41 billion) for subsidies to stimulate the consumer economy. Those extended to smartphones in recent months and have helped the likes of Xiaomi Corp. and Vivo expand their sales. Apple is working on bringing its Apple Intelligence suite to Chinese consumers as early as the middle of this year, Bloomberg News has reported. Still,Apple could make up for the sales weakness via other models in the region. “We need to keep in mind that these would likely still be only a small portion of Apple’s volumes given that many consumers in China place an emphasis on ‘face’ — not wanting to be seen as having a lower-priced iPhone,” IDC’s Bryan Ma said. Looking beyond China, he expects the 16e to make up as much as a fifth of iPhone sales in India in the second half of the year.

Apple still needs an import permit from the trade ministry to be able to sell the iPhones locally, the industry ministry has said. The Southeast Asian country of about 280 million people banned iPhone 16 sales last year as the company failed to meet composition requirements regarding locally-made parts.

artificial intelligence servers. Net profit for October-December for Apple's top iPhone assembler and Nvidia's AI server maker likely came in at T$54.4 billion ($1.65 billion), according to an LSEG consensus estimate of 15 analysts, versus T$53.15 billion a year earlier. Foxconn said in January its fourth-quarter revenue jumped 15.2% to a record for that quarter on strong sales of AI servers.