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🗓️ 8 January 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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On this edition of Business Weekly, we’re looking at the tech giant Apple. Its value tipped over the $3 trillion mark on the New York stock Exchange at the start of the year. We hear from Dan Ives of Wedbush Securities on possible further avenues of growth for the company. We’ll take you to the United States to hear from different communities all hoping to benefit from President Biden’s $1.2 trillion infrastructure plan. We focus on projects designed to improve the quality of drinking water, and public transport. The BBC’s Will Bain covers examples from Alaska, Michigan and California. Plus, we remember the work of the world renowned Kenyan paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey, who died at the start of the year. We hear from Dr Paula Kahumbu who knew him from childhood, and now runs one of the organisations he founded. Business Weekly is presented by Sasha Twining and produced by Clare Williamson.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Business Weekly with me, Sasha Twining.
0:09.0	On this edition, we'll talk about President Biden's $1.2 trillion infrastructure plan
0:14.9	and hear from different communities who are hoping to see some much-needed finance coming their way.
0:20.4	We'll hear how some long-running,
0:22.5	clean water and transport projects may finally benefit. Plus, after the death of Kenya's
0:29.5	world-renowned paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey, we'll hear from the woman regarded as leading
0:35.2	the next generation of conservationists in East Africa.
0:39.6	But first, I want you to cast your mind back and take a listen to this. I'll give you a clue.
0:46.0	The voice you're about to hear belonged to a man often seen clad in black roll neck jumpers surrounded by technology.
0:55.5	An iPod, a phone, and an internet communicator.
1:03.7	An iPod. A phone.
1:09.3	Are you getting it?
1:19.9	These are not three separate devices. This is one device.
1:31.4	Did you guess? Well, it was Apple CEO Steve Jobs back in 2007 launching the very first iPhone.
1:36.0	Now, back then, Apple was worth some $106 billion.
1:41.6	Today, it is officially a $3 trillion company.
1:45.2	It's the first one to hit that valuation on the New York Stock Exchange ever. Now, Steve Jobs died in 2011 and the current CEO, the successor CEO, is Tim Cook,
1:53.9	who's just launched the latest version of the iconic phone.
1:58.0	iPhone 13 with fantastic new technologies, including our most advanced dual camera system
2:04.3	with cinematic mode, A15 bionic, 5G, brighter super retina XDR display, and longer all-day battery
2:13.3	life.
2:14.5	These are the best iPhones we've ever created.
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