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Foxconn Steps Up Hiring as Apple Readies New iPhone

Lorraine Luk, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on April 15 at 7:30 am PT

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.

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Microsoft Plans Seven-Inch Tablet

Lorraine Luk, Shira Ovide and Eva Dou, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on April 10 at 10:27 pm PT

The personal computer business is at a crossroads, and Microsoft isn’t sitting still.

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Apple to Begin iPhone Production This Quarter

Lorraine Luk, Jessica E. Lessin and Eva Dou, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on April 2 at 11:51 am PT

Apple Inc. plans to begin production of a refreshed iPhone similar in size and shape to its current one in the second quarter of the year, according to people familiar with the device’s production, teeing up a possible summer launch for the next version of its flagship device.

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Foxconn Gets Boost From Apple’s Sales

Lorraine Luk, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on March 25 at 9:53 am PT

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.

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HTC Says Margins May Slip Further

Lorraine Luk and Aries Poon, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on February 4 at 3:44 am PT

Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC Corp. expects first-quarter revenue and profit margins to fall as it battles intense competition from Apple Inc., Samsung Electronics Co. and makers of low-cost phones.

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Apple’s Cook, China Mobile Meet, Raising Possibility of iPhone Deal

Lorraine Luk, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on January 10 at 9:32 am PT

Apple Inc. Chief Executive Tim Cook and China Mobile Ltd. Chairman Xi Guohua met Thursday and discussed cooperation, raising the possibility that the world’s largest mobile carrier soon would begin offering the iPhone.

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Microsoft Tests Smartphone With Asia Suppliers

Lorraine Luk and Shira Ovide, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on November 2, 2012 at 4:13 am PT

Microsoft Corp. is working with component suppliers in Asia to test its own smartphone design, people familiar with the situation said.

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Weak PC Demand Hits Chip Makers’ Earnings

Jung-Ah Lee and Lorraine Luk, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in Enterprise on October 24, 2012 at 10:54 am PT

Asia’s major memory-chip makers continued to post weak results in the third quarter as personal-computer demand waned, with consumers switching to mobile devices such as tablet computers and smartphones.

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HTC Profit Falls 79 Percent Amid Competition

Lorraine Luk, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on October 8, 2012 at 5:00 am PT

HTC Corp. on Monday reported its lowest quarterly profit since 2006 as it continued to lose market share to its competitors.

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Apple Suppliers Begin Mass Production on Smaller Tablet

Lorraine Luk, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on October 3, 2012 at 3:30 am PT

Apple Inc.’s Asian component suppliers have started mass production of a new tablet computer smaller than the current iPad, people with knowledge of the situation said, as the Silicon Valley company tries to stay competitive against rivals such as Google Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. that are offering smaller, less-expensive alternatives to the iPad.