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World Service,04 Aug 2023,49 mins

Amazon and Apple serve up latest results

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Tech giants Amazon and Apple have released their latest results, tech writer Alison van Diggelen in San Francisco and Sushma Ramachandran, a business journalist and columnist for The Tribune newspaper in New Delhi, join the programme to go over the numbers. In India, the government is restricting imports of electronic items such as laptops, tablets and phones, we look at the reasons behind the decision and whether this could see the cost of such items rise in the country. As part of our series on immigration we hear from the Argentine medical professionals leaving their homes and their country in search of better wages. Three years on from the pandemic when Covid shut down international borders, Americans have rediscovered their love of vacationing abroad. Sam Fenwick speaks to Erika Richter, from the American Society of Travel Advisors (ASTA), about where Americans are travelling to and how much they’re spending on their trips.

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