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The company, which used to cut acrylic, was not considered a machine tool-maker - but it eventually developed machinery to cut glass and became "the star of Apple's mobile phone surface processing," Mr Lin says.

The announcement comes just a few months after Spotify acquired podcast producer Gimlet and podcast tool-maker Anchor, continuing the Swedish streaming platform’s steps toward differentiating itself through its original content.

Tom Duncan, the CEO of tool-maker Positec Tool Corp, chatted with a few attendees about a fantasy ticket to secure the White House in November 2016: Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, with Senator Marco Rubio of Florida as his running mate.

His Silicon Valley company, which makes machines that help churn out the silicon brains of devices from smartphones to supercomputers, is using an industry trade show this week to try to persuade analysts that Applied will be just as well off without merging with fellow tool-maker Tokyo Electron Ltd.

And what of his dad, the east London tool-maker who thought sport would instill the best values in him?