Lenovo's Solar-Powered Laptop Could One Day Be a Real Product
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Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter with reporting and analysis about the business of tech from Bloomberg's journalists around the world. Today, longtime energy reporter Luz Ding looks at Lenovo's solar-powered concept PC and sees the potential for meaningful innovation.
Apple's India manufacturing: Apple exported more than 1.5 trillion rupees ($17.4 billion) in iPhones from India in the last fiscal year, the nation's technology minister said Tuesday, underscoring the US company's efforts to diversify away from China.
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