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The redesigned iPad Air and new iPad Pro are available today - Apple
16 May 2024
The redesigned iPad Air and new iPad Pro with Apple silicon are now available.
Apple announces new accessibility features, including Eye Tracking - Apple
16 May 2024
Apple today announced new accessibility features coming later this year, including Eye Tracking, Music Haptics, and Vocal Shortcuts.
Apple Watch is the perfect golfing companion
16 May 2024
Apple Watch is a versatile tool for golfers to stay connected, active, and healthy, and a suite of great golfing apps offer users tools and insights to improve their game.
App Store stopped over $7 billion in potentially fraudulent transactions - Apple
15 May 2024
Today, Apple announced that from 2020 through 2023, the App Store prevented a total of over $7 billion in potentially fraudulent transactions.
Apple and Google deliver support for unwanted tracking alerts in iOS and Android - Apple
14 May 2024
Apple and Google have teamed up to deliver support for unwanted Bluetooth tracking alerts in iOS and Android.
Apple News+ introduces Quartiles, a new game, and Offline Mode for subscribers - Apple
14 May 2024
Apple News+ introduced Quartiles, a new spelling game, and Offline Mode for subscribers to see News content without Wi-Fi or a cellular network.
Apple Music celebrates the greatest records ever made with the launch of inaugural 100 Best Albums list
13 May 2024
Apple Music today announced the release of its 100 Best Albums of all time, a list crafted by Apple Music’s experts alongside industry professionals.
AirPlay is now available in select IHG Hotels & Resorts properties - Apple
13 May 2024
Now, guests at select IHG Hotels & Resorts properties can use AirPlay to seamlessly share entertainment and more to compatible TVs in their rooms.
Apple unveils stunning new iPad Pro with the world’s most advanced display, M4 chip, and Apple Pencil Pro
07 May 2024
The groundbreaking new iPad Pro features a stunningly thin and light design, taking portability and performance to the next level.
Apple unveils the redesigned 11‑inch and all‑new 13‑inch iPad Air, supercharged by the M2 chip
07 May 2024
Apple today announced the redesigned 11-inch and all-new 13-inch iPad Air, supercharged by the M2 chip.
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Company story – Quaker Oats
By Kiron Kasbekar | 08 Mar 2024
Quaker Oats is a company whose products I remember from my childhood days. Years before a foreign exchange crisis caused the Indian government to impose curbs on consumer product imports, we used to see a host of foreign brands in the Indian market. Including Quaker Oats, which I remember eating when I was a child, and which has been available for the past two decades or more.
How Quaker Oats grabbed customers’ attention
By Kiron Kasbekar | 07 Mar 2024
Quaker Oats, the American food products giant that was created in 1901 through the merger of many older oat millers, and was acquired by a bigger foods giant, Pepsi, in 2001, has been an innovative company. One example of its innovativeness shows in its packaging – the cereal box it launched in 1915.
Company story – Cunard Line
By Kiron Kasbekar | 12 Jan 2024
The Cunard Line started its life in Glasgow in 1839 as the British and North American Royal Mail Steam-Packet Company when Samuel Cunard was awarded the first British transatlantic steamship mail contract.
Samuel Slater – textile tycoon or traitor?
By Kiron Kasbekar | 26 Dec 2023
Samuel Slater is a name that holds significant importance in the annals of American industrial history. Often referred to as the ‘Father of the American Factory System’, Slater's contributions played a pivotal role in shaping the nation’s industrial landscape.
Underwood Typewriter Company – an icon of the past
By Kiron Kasbekar | 21 Dec 2023
You’ve probably never heard of Underwood typewriters. For the company folded up in 1963 – 60 years ago. You may not even have seen and handled a typewriter, unless someone in your family owned one.
The rise and fall of Chrysler
By Kiron Kasbekar | 16 Dec 2023
A century ago, the American automobile industry was more crowded than a vegetable market on a Sunday morning, with such a wide variety of stuff on sale that buyers were spoilt for choice. Buyers could pick and choose, bargain, pay up and drive out with the newly purchased vehicle.
TRW – the tide turned
By Kiron Kasbekar | 13 Dec 2023
There used to be an American company called Thompson Ramo Wooldridge Inc. This company, which was a global supplier of automotive systems, modules, and components to car and truck manufacturers, started small, as most companies do. Then, as the automotive industry grew bigger, so did TRW.
The rise and fall of Nokia
By Aniket Gupta | 07 Dec 2023
My interest is stories about dominant companies that failed all of a sudden. These companies were once etched into people’s minds but have since become a symbol of nostalgia. One such company, which was the biggest in its industry before it failed catastrophically, is Nokia.
Yahoo!: The first king of the internet
By Aniket Gupta | 01 Dec 2023
The year is 1994. You go to the internet to search for a particular website, but there is no Google that could be used to search your desired website. What do you do? The answer is that you use Yahoo.
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