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One chart shows Apple’s service business quietly rising to the top

This article was sourced from Business Insider.  Article by Caroline Cakebread. Apple is synonymous with sleek hardware, from laptops to phones. As this chart from Statista shows however, Apple’s non-hardware offerings are now an incredibly important piece of the business. Revenues from Apple’s service business have been steadily rising over the past five years, and with $US7.3 […]

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Finance

Australia’s ‘Google tax’ has been approved

This article was sourced from Business Insider. Article by Simon Thomson. A 40% tax rate on multinational companies that use overseas tax havens to avoid paying tax in Australia was passed by the Senate last night. The diverted profits tax (DPT), also known as the “Google tax”, was a key part of treasurer Scott Morrison’s budget […]

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Apple has acquired Workflow, a powerful automation tool for iPad and iPhone

This article was sourced from Tech Crunch. Article by Matthew Ponzarino. Apple has finalized a deal to acquire Workflow today — a tool that lets you hook together apps and functions within apps in strings of commands to automate tasks. We’ve been tracking this one for a while but were able to confirm just now that […]