Apple’s Made-in-USA Mac Will Be Built in Texas

Designed by Apple in California, assembled in Texas …
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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.
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Big Blue Is Still the Big Dog of Patents

IBM dominates the patent race for the 20th consecutive year.
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Why Is Tim Cook in China Again?

Second visit in less than a year.
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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.