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Apple’s Made-in-USA Mac Will Be Built in Texas
Designed by Apple in California, assembled in Texas …
Will Google Deliver on Its Nexus Q Promise? Not at This Year’s I/O.
The search giant won’t be updating us on its streaming media device at this week’s I/O developer conference. Perhaps next year?
Microsoft Strikes Another Android Patent Deal, This Time With ZTE
With this deal — and another with Foxconn — Microsoft now has arrangements in place with the bulk of the leading Android players.
Tech Stocks Slump as Earnings Season Approaches
Down market alert!
Google Shares Dip as Microsoft Strikes Licensing Deal With Hon Hai
Google gets dealt another blow in its ongoing struggles with Microsoft’s patent infringement claims.
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Foxconn Steps Up Hiring as Apple Readies New iPhone
Foxconn Technology Group has resumed hiring assembly-line workers in China after a postholiday freeze, in the latest sign that major customer Apple Inc. is gearing up for production of the new iPhone.Foxconn Flop Fuels iPhone Fears
Biggest revenue decline in over a decade.
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Foxconn Gets Boost From Apple’s Sales
Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. said its net profit rose 16 percent in 2012 from the previous year, as the Taiwan-based assembler of Apple Inc. products saw its revenue increase as the U.S. company’s sales grew.HP Sets New Labor Guidelines in China
Targeting student labor.
Carly Fiorina’s Reasons for Not Breaking Up HP Are the Same as Meg Whitman’s (Video)
Sound familiar?
Why Is Tim Cook in China Again?
Second visit in less than a year.
Rumor Mill Adds Mac Mini to Apple’s “Made in USA” Plans
The Mac mini joins the Mac Pro as a possible candidate for whatever production Apple is planning to move stateside.
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Foxconn Workers Say, “Keep Our Overtime”
Nets to catch would-be jumpers still sag ominously from Hon Hai Precision Industry Co.’s buildings. But two years after a spate of suicides at the Apple Inc. supplier’s campus in Shenzhen, workers are more concerned about another measure designed to protect them: Limits on overtime.Voices
Foxconn Faces Challenges in Boosting Automation
Apple Inc. supplier Hon Hai Precision Co. has declared plans to install robotic arms at its factories dotted across China to boost efficiency and address labor unrest. But its bid to automate swaths of the production process in the coming decade is facing major obstacles, including high costs and rapid changes in technology.Tim Cook: Apple Will Build Some Macs in the U.S. Next Year
“Designed by Apple in Cupertino, Assembled in the USA.”
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Hon Hai’s Explanation for iPhone 5 Shortage
Apple has said its new iPhone 5 sold faster initially than any other iPhone, but sales have fallen short of some analysts’ expectations due in part to supply shortages.Voices
Hon Hai Says It Hired Underage Workers
Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. acknowledged that it hired underage workers at one of its China plants, in the latest hit to the labor practices of the major contractor for Apple Inc. and other electronics giants.AAPLsauce
Apple’s skyrocketing stock price is headed back to earth. But for how long?
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Foxconn Confirms Two Disputes Between Employees
But the manufacturer disputes reports of a strike among iPhone 5 assemblers.News Byte
Foxconn Closes China Plant in Response to Worker Riot
Foxconn Technology Group has closed its Taiyuan plant in response to a riot among its workforce, according to a report from the New York Times. Foxconn, one of the leading suppliers of electronics components to the world’s largest technology companies — including Apple Inc. — told the Times that a number of people were hospitalized as a result of the riot; he declined to say whether the Taiyuan plant was responsible for any part of the iPhone 5 production process. A Foxconn spokesman did not immediately return an AllThingsD request for comment.News Byte
Struggling Sharp Mortgages Factories to Stay Afloat
It’s a dull day, indeed, for Sharp. The struggling electronics maker said Thursday that in order to remain in business, it has mortgaged nearly all of the real estate it owns in Japan, including a key factory that produces displays for the next-generation iPhone, which Apple is expected to debut next week. News of the move comes as Sharp scrambles to secure funding from Hon Hai, parent company of Foxconn Electronics.Why Facebook Might Really Be Doing Its Own Phone, Despite What Zuck Said
He’s a tricky one, that Mark Zuckerberg.
Made in the USA: With Nexus Q, Google Brings Manufacturing Back to the States
Google’s first hardware device isn’t foreign-born, but domestic.
Cook on Apple’s Role in China and Manufacturing: “I Hope People Rip Us Off Blindly” (Video)
Don’t copy Apple, Tim Cook says. Unless, of course, you’re copying its stance on labor practices.
Foxconn Chief Says Apple Will Share Cost of Improving Factory Conditions
Another step forward in Apple’s effort to improve working conditions at factories in which devices like the iPhone and iPad are built.
