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HTC’s Lowest-Cost Smartphone to Date

Eva Dou, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on June 19 at 8:01 am PT

HTC Corp.’s least-expensive smartphone to date hit Taiwan shelves on Wednesday, priced at less than a third of its flagship device.

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HTC to Name New Leaders Soon

Eva Dou, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on June 5 at 10:35 am PT

HTC Corp. expects to announce successors within the month for some of the high-level managers who have left the Taiwanese smartphone maker in recent weeks.

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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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Foxconn Faces Challenges in Boosting Automation

Paul Mozur and Lorraine Luk, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on December 11, 2012 at 8:29 am PT

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.

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Asustek: Nexus 7 Sales Approaching One Million a Month

Eva Dou, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on October 31, 2012 at 5:30 am PT

Sales of Google Inc. Nexus 7, made by Taiwan’s Asustek Computer Inc., are closing in on one million units a month, the Taiwanese company revealed.

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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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Hon Hai Says It Hired Underage Workers

Paul Mozur, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on October 16, 2012 at 11:24 am PT

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.