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Foxconn, Apple pledge improving conditions as a competitive strength
Apple is going to stump up cash to help Foxconn improve labour conditions at the Chinese factories that assemble iPhones and iPads. -
Foxconn expects profits to rise
Word from Asia is that the controversal Foxconn company is confident of achieving a 10 percent growth in its revenues this year. -
Foxconn CEO Terry Gou: "What's wrong with sweatshops?"
Letter from TaiwanGou was pictured on Taiwanese TV speaking to the select group of Chinese Foxconn workers who were on a paid-for trip to Taiwan to tour the island and see the sights. -
Foxconn's Wuhan workers threaten to jump from rooftops
Foxconn faced more drama this weekend with workers threatening to jump from the roof. -
Foxconn sends lucky workers on Taiwan jolly
A select few of Chinese Foxconn staff have been given an all expenses paid trip around Taiwan. -
Baidu contracts Foxconn for cheap smartphone
RumourBaidu and Foxconn are reportedly embarking in cosy discussions about building a low priced smartphone, which will run the Chinese web company's mobile operating system. -
TSMC ranked Taiwan's most profitable company
TSMC managed to bring in $4.4 billion in after tax net income in 2011. It was followed by enormous manufacturer Hon Hai, aka Foxconn, which has contracts for a number of high profile technology companies, including Apple. Hon Hai managed to rake in $2.7 billion in after tax net income. -
Apple and Foxconn/Hon Hai improve worker conditions
Apple and Foxconn have agreed to improve wages and working conditions at factories accused of being sweatshops. -
Apple black market swaps iPads for iRony
What is also ironic is that while the kids who make the iPads at Foxconn probably never want to see one ever again, those outside the factory are prepared to pay a fortune to get one. Apple could resolve all this by selling them itself, but it does not want to do this. -
PR spin is not saving Foxconn
Over the weekend Foxconn appears to have a PR victory when the radio programme "This American Life" retracted part of a broadcast critical of working conditions at one of its Chinese factories. -
Foxconn will not sue "This American Life"
CommentFoxconn, which helps to make Apple iPhones and iPads, said that it will not sue a US radio channel about its work practices in China. -
Foxconn is good, and will be good to its people, very good
It's tried safety nets, prayers by monks and cash incentives, but now Foxconn has decided to go back to business basics. -
Apple iPad 3 out on March 7th
The iPad3 is made at the Foxconn plant in China, which is being investigated by Apple to find out reasons why so many of its employees tend to leave the company by flinging themselves off the roof. Not that will make much difference to sales. -
Foxconn hires Burson-Marsteller to hit out at underage worker claims
ExclusiveFoxconn Technology Group has denied claims from a Chinese worker's rights group that it uses child labour in any form. -
As the iPad 3 is set to launch, Chinese workers plead for awareness
TechEye approached the Fair Labor Association, which is leading investigations into the working conditions of Apple, suppliers, such as Foxconn in China for a response to the letter. -
Foxconn hid child labourers
When Apple's inspectors visited the Foxconn plant last week, there was a surprising lack of child labour being used. -
Apple's 20MW solar plant distracts from PR disasters
The timing of the announcement is interesting. Apple is in the midst of a whirlwind of bad PR over in China, with Foxconn factory investigations enough to have Apple’s customers spit their fair-trade lattes all over their iPads. -
Foxconn plant has "tonnes of issues"
After early indications that the inspection of the Foxconn operations by US labour NGO the Fair Labour Association was going to turn out to be a white wash, it turns out that group has found a lot wrong with the hardware maker's working conditions.
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