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Third Foxconn Worker Dies Due to Explosion, Apparently Caused by “Combustible Dust”

in News on May 22, 2011 at 10:54 am PT

A third worker has died from an explosion at a Foxconn plant in China that makes Apple products, the contract manufacturer said on Sunday. The company said it us still investigating the blast, but said initial findings suggest “that the accident was caused by an explosion of combustible dust in a duct.”
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Disney Tries to Waddle Its Way to Digital Success

in News on August 7, 2007 at 4:18 am PT

After having just visited WeeWorld in London, an avatar-based site that allows mostly young people to create online personas for social networking and other activities around the Web, it was interesting to see Walt Disney last week forking over up to $700 million to own another popular social-networking site for “tweens” called Club Penguin. As [...]