Stores of value: regulators lean on app vendors
Apple and Alphabet operate what is in effect a smartphone-app duopoly. Governments want to curb their power, but it is not clear whether more competition would change things. We ask why India\u2019s election is so eye-wateringly expensive; the country\u2019s size is not the only answer (08:59). And new approaches in the old fight against swarms of locusts (14:07).
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