Articles tagged with: Foxconn
Taiwan's Foxconn agrees on iPhone suicide compensation
The Taiwanese employer of a young Chinese man who killed himself after being interrogated over a missing iPhone prototype has agreed to pay compensation to his family, a company official said Tuesday. more
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Chinese worker commits suicide over missing iPhone
An employee at a factory that makes iPhones in China killed himself after a prototype went missing. Apple offered its condolences Wednesday as the company waits for the results of an investigation. more
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Sony Ericsson Android Phone Might Use Qualcomm's Snapdragon Platform
Details of Sony Ericsson's first Android based smartphone have been posted online - under the codename of "Rachael". The mobil.nu website says that it has seen internal Sony Ericsson documents that show the phone will be marketed under the Xperia range and will be based on the Qualcomm QSD8250 Snapdragon platform. more
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Foxconn Boss Challenges Buffett's Investment
In an interview with a Taiwanese newspaper published Monday, Terry Gou, head of Taiwanese electronics giant Hon Hai Precision Industry (Foxconn), questioned the American investor's decision to invest in the batterymaker BYD, which Hon Hai has sued for intellectual property violations. more
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Rules Change in the Mobile Handset Outsourcing Business
With the structure of the mobile handset supply chain upended by the global economic crisis, the old rules for the contract manufacturing of wireless devices have been overturned, leaving new pitfalls for Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and Electronic Manufacturing Services (EMS) providers, according to iSuppli Corp. more
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Foxconn in Running for Sony Ericsson Android Phone Production
Sony Ericsson is likely to out-source the production of its initial Android based smartphones to Taiwan's foxconn Electronics, reports DigiTimes, citing a report in the Chinese language Commercial Times newspaper. more
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Nokia Pulls More Than $5 Billion in Business From Contract Manufacturers
In another blow to the beleaguered electronics contract manufacturing business, Nokia - the world's largest mobile handset brand -announced that it has stopped using outside contract manufacturers for the assembly of its phones. more
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Russia Falls off the Electronics Contract Manufacturing Map
Once viewed as a promising emerging market with massive growth potential for the global electronics contract manufacturing business, Russia now is facing a cessation of new investment, along with shutdowns in existing facilities and delays in new ones, according to iSuppli Corp. more
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"Foxconn Effect" Fades as Top EMS Providers' Revenue Shrinks in 2008
After years of single-handedly powering the robust growth of the global Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) business, foxconn, aka Hon Hai Precision Industry achieved only a marginal revenue increase in 2008, causing the top-tier EMS market to contract, according to preliminary market-share results from iSuppli. more
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Foxconn Full-Year Profits Drop 83%
foxconn International Holdings - the mobile phone manufacturing division of Taiwan's giant Hon Hai Precision Industry has reported a net loss for the second half of last year, which dragged its full year profit down by 83.% to US$121 million - compared with US$721 million a year earlier. more
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