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A More Democratic Foxconn? No One Told the Workers

Michelle Chen | Posted 05.18.2013 | World
Michelle Chen

With a workforce of more than one million, the electronics giant Foxconn has enough workers in its Chinese factories to fill a small country. So it's...

Foxconn Needs More Time To Make Improvements

Reuters | Posted 05.17.2013 | Technology

TAIPEI (Reuters) - Foxconn Technology Group said on Friday it needs more time to reduce overtime at its China factories after labor monitors appointed...

Google Glass: Made In America

The Huffington Post | Alexis Kleinman | Posted 03.29.2013 | Technology

Sure, Google Glass is cool, but it's also weird looking. In an effort to get Google Glass on more people's heads, the company has a new strategy to ma...

Foxconn's Biggest Loss Ever

Reuters | Lee Chyen Yee | Posted 05.21.2013 | Technology

By Lee Chyen Yee HONG KONG (Reuters) - Foxconn International Holdings Ltd (FIH), the world's biggest contract maker of cellphones, fell...

Hiring Freeze At iPhone Factories

The Huffington Post | Dominique Mosbergen | Posted 02.20.2013 | Technology

Foxconn Technology Group, the manufacturer of a slew of consumer electronics including several Apple products, has temporarily stopped recruiting new ...

Computer Company Cracks Down On Abusive Practices

AP | Posted 04.10.2013 | Technology

SAN FRANCISCO — Hewlett-Packard Co., the world's largest personal computer maker, is vowing to crack down on its Chinese suppliers in an effort ...

The Real Super Bowl Winner

The Huffington Post | Jillian Berman | Posted 02.04.2013 | Business

Science has determined that people need to know 7.5 things per day, on average, about the world of business. You can't argue with science. Lucky for y...

Apple Makes Foxconn Change The Way Its Unions Work

AP | Posted 04.06.2013 | Technology

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan-owned Foxconn Technology Group, a leading maker of Apple's iPhones and gadgets for other global brands, is widening the...

Apple Discovers Underaged Workers At Factories

Reuters | Poornima Gupta and Noel Randewich | Posted 03.27.2013 | Technology

* Apple operations chief vows to eradicate child labor from industry * Apple says child labor, working hours tough challenges ...

Apple Has Found Its Next Huge Market

AP | By JOE McDONALD | Posted 03.13.2013 | Technology

BEIJING (AP) — Apple expects China to overtake the United States as its biggest market, CEO Tim Cook told a Chinese government news agency. ...

Shopper Finds Plea For Help From Labor Prisoner In Unexpected Place

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 12.28.2012 | Business

Messages for help don’t always come in bottles. Sometimes they come hidden in the packaging of cheap Halloween decorations. Julie Keith of Damasc...

Signs Of Improvement At iPad Factories

The New York Times | Posted 12.27.2012 | Technology

One day last summer, Pu Xiaolan was halfway through a shift inspecting iPad cases when she received a beige wooden chair with white stripes and a high...

Top 10 Sustainable Business Stories of 2012

Andrew Winston | Posted 02.22.2013 | Green
Andrew Winston

We may not be keeping pace with these pressures, but leading companies continue to evolve more sustainable strategies and tactics. Let's look at some top macro- and company-level stories.

Report: Foxconn Workers Unhappy Labor Laws Now Implemented

The Huffington Post | Posted 12.18.2012 | Business

Labor conditions may have improved at factories owned by China's Foxconn, the manufacturer responsible for assembling tech products for Apple and Sams...

Reporters Infiltrate Foxconn..

Engadget | Posted 02.16.2013 | Technology

Envoyé Spécial, a 60 Minutes-like program from public TV station France 2, went undercover at the Zhengzhou iPhone 5 Foxconn factory recently (withi...

China Bashing Bears Fruit: Apple Moves Bring Manufacturing Home

Peter Navarro | Posted 12.07.2012 | Business
Peter Navarro

You just can't stay in a deal where only one side is required to follow rules or behave in a civilized manner. It is time for Washington to take off the gloves and fight for American jobs like the 700,000 other ones Apple has left in China.

Foxconn Wants To Train American Factory Owners

AP | Posted 01.07.2013 | Technology

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — The head of Taiwan's Foxconn Technology Group says he will invite dozens of American engineers to his factories in China to le...

iPhone Manufacturer Struggling To Meet Demand

Reuters | Posted 01.07.2013 | Technology

TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan's Foxconn Technology Group said on Wednesday the company's flagship Hon Hai unit is finding it difficult to cope with the ma...

Billionaires and the IPhone 5 -- Not Made in Beijing

John Wagner Givens | Posted 01.02.2013 | World
John Wagner Givens

The story of how China's political elites have been able to leverage their power to make a quick RMB is alluring, but it is also important to keep this in perspective and remember that most of China's richest owe their success to their distance from, rather than their connections in, Beijing.

Family Of Severely Brain-Damaged Foxconn Worker Fights Company In Court

Reuters | Tan Ee Lyn | Posted 12.30.2012 | Technology

By Tan Ee Lyn HONG KONG (Reuters) - The father of a Foxconn worker left brain-damaged by a factory accident in southern China took the ...

Workers Need Sustainability, Too

The Daily Beast | Posted 12.22.2012 | Technology

The fact that Apple's supply-chain challenges have not affected iPhone sales is telling. Growing public concern over environmental issues does not yet...

PHOTOS: Inside The Foxconn Dormitories

The Atlantic | Posted 12.20.2012 | Technology

The current workforce at Foxconn's Longhua site is around 220,000, of whom about one-quarter stay on-site in dormitories. ...

Does Apple's Secrecy Prove That Openness Doesn't Work?

Don Tapscott | Posted 12.17.2012 | Technology
Don Tapscott

Apple doesn't want its workers leaking information to the media or blogosphere. But increasingly Apple pays a price for this employee secrecy. It doesn't get the serendipitous collaboration across company silos that many other businesses enjoy.

Foxconn Cops To Putting 14-Year-Olds In Factories

AP | JOE McDONALD | Posted 12.15.2012 | Technology

BEIJING (AP) — Electronics manufacturer Foxconn said Tuesday it found underage interns as young as 14 working at one of its factories in China. ...

More Bad News For Brain-Damaged Foxconn Factory Worker Who Had Half His Brain Removed

The Huffington Post | Ron Dicker | Posted 10.15.2012 | Technology

A Chinese Apple manufacturer has a message for a worker who had half his brain removed after a factory accident: Get out of the hospital or else. Z...