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Kmart owner Wesfarmers
Business

How Kmart owner Wesfarmers became one of Australia’s largest business empires

Wesfarmers Limited is one of the largest Australian conglomerations ever. Its headquarter is in the Western Australia capital city of Perth. It is mainly an Australian and New Zealand conglomeration of business that deals in sectors like coal mining, industrial products, chemical, fertilisers, and retail. Wesfarmers is one of the wealthiest companies and commonly listed …

How Harry Triguboff made his money
Money

How Harry Triguboff made his money

Harry Triguboff is one of the richest people in Australian and his is a developer of real estate who is Chinese-born. He is the managing director as well as the found of Meriton and many people call him ‘high-rise Harry’ as a nickname, due to the fact Meriton is responsible for so many apartment complexes. …

Mark Oliphant
Science

How Mark Oliphant worked on the Manhattan Project

Anyone familiar with nuclear weapons will know that the ‘Manhattan Project’ was the codename for the then-secret operation to create working atomic weapons. Mark Oliphant was an Australian scientist who played a key role in the development of nuclear weapons, helping with the first experimental nuclear fusion demonstration. During World War 2, Great Britain started …

Business Technology & Innovations

Mobile App Usage Grew 40% in Q2 2020 to Hit an All Time High of 200 Billion Hours: App Annie

Mobile app usage reportedly increased dramatically at the peak of the COVID-19 lockdown worldwide. With people largely staying indoors because of the pandemic, time spent on mobile apps grew 40% year-over-year in Q2, 2020. According to new data from App Annie, people the world over spent an all-time monthly high of over 200 billion hours during April 2020. India …

Analysis Technology & Innovations

Gboard Might Soon Get Google Lens Shortcut, System Default Theme and More

Having just added support for Andriod 11’s Emoji 13.0 characters, Google’s Gboard app is apparently prepping some more changes. The app might soon get a toggle to follow the system default theme, as well as Google Lens integration. The impending changes were discovered by 9to5Google following an APK teardown of Gboard 9.6 beta that started rolling out this week. …

Technology & Innovations

Android 10 Had the Fastest Adoption Rate, All Thanks to Google’s Seamless Update Efforts

Google hasn’t officially shared the Android distribution numbers for months. You can install Android Studio to get a peek at the latest updated numbers. But, the company itself has been pretty silent about the update data. So, it definitely came as a surprise when Google took to its developer blog today to announce that its efforts to …