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Google parent Alphabet's Q1 profits beat estimates: company
Google parent Alphabet's Q1 profits beat estimates: company
Technology
by  AFP

Google's parent Alphabet on Thursday trounced revenue and profit expectations for the first quarter of this year, causing shares to leap more than 12 percent. Alphabet shares that ended the formal trading day down slightly leapt more than 12 percent to $177 in after-market trades that followed release of the earnings figures.

DR Congo accuses Apple of using 'blood minerals' from war-torn east
DR Congo accuses Apple of using 'blood minerals' from war-torn east
Economy
by  AFP

The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo is accusing Apple of using "illegally exploited" minerals extracted from the country's embattled east in its products, lawyers representing the African country said Thursday. Macs, iPhones and other Apple products are "tainted by the blood of the Congolese people", the DRC's lawyers said.