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The pull of India’s tractor-makers

Demand for farm equipment has soared amid the pandemicWERE ANY more evidence needed to reflect how surprising 2020 has been, consider tractor sales. In April Hemant Sikka, president of Mahindra & Mahindra’s farm-equipment business—which makes around 300,000 of the things a year, more than any other company anywhere—sat in his Mumbai flat near his shuttered…

Google, antitrust and how best to regulate big tech

Antitrust cases over past behaviour have proved mostly ineffectual. So regulators are turning their attention to forward-looking rulesANY DAY now America’s Department of Justice (DoJ) will file a lawsuit against Google, accusing it of abusing its monopoly in online search. It will be the first big antitrust case in technology since the DoJ went after…