A Chinese man who formerly worked at Ford Motor Co has been arrested and charged with stealing trade secrets, including sensitive design documents, from the automaker, the U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday.
Hon Hai Group, parent of Hon Hai and Foxconn, will invest more than $1 billion to build a production facility in the southwestern Chinese city of Chengdu, sources and the company said.
Electronics manufacturer Foxconn is building Apple's eagerly anticipated Tablet device, according to a report on the DigiTimes Web site.
Apple has selected Foxconn to build the company's anticipated tablet PC, DigiTimes reported on Wednesday, citing market sources. The report says the device will hit the market in Q1 2010, with initial shipments of 300,000-400,000 units.
Sony Corp said it would sell an LCD TV assembly plant in Mexico to Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision Industry in a bid to cut costs by contracting out production and turn around its loss-making TV operations.
Hon Hai, the world's largest electronics parts maker, posted a market-beating 26 percent jump in second-quarter earnings on Monday due to improving global demand and a smaller tax bill at some of its manufacturing bases.
Foxconn, the world's top contract cellphone maker, posted its second straight half-year loss, and said the outlook remained cloudy, underscoring the fragility of the sector's recovery.
Apple may be not only working on a 10-inch tablet, but also in 13 and 15 models, one running Mac OS X, Gizmo said on Friday citing a source that has always been 100% reliable.
China Unicom will announce a deal to sell Apple's iPhone in China as soon as Friday, an analyst said, citing an industry source with direct knowledge of the situation.
China Unicom will announce a deal to sell Apple's iPhone in China as soon as Friday, an analyst said, citing an industry source with direct knowledge of the situation.
Foxconn, a long-time partner with Apple Inc, is working on the WCDMA standard iPhone models with WiFi and support WAPI, though the first batch of iPhones for China is Wi-Fi-disabled, an insider of iPhone Product Development told CBN news on Wednesday.
Dell Inc. has chosen Foxconn, a major Taiwan-based electronics manufacturer as original equipment manufacturer (OEM) for its first smartphone Mini3i, Apple Daily Taiwan reported on Wednesday, citing unnamed source.
One week after the apparent suicide of a Chinese factory worker accused of stealing a carefully guarded Apple iPhone prototype, one question remains unanswered: what happened to the missing phone?
One week after the apparent suicide of a Chinese factory worker accused of stealing a carefully guarded Apple iPhone prototype, one question remains unanswered: what happened to the missing phone?
A Chinese worker committed suicide in Shenzhen, South of China on July 16 on learning he was suspected of leaking company secrets. The incident sparked a web firestorm in China and has provoked criticism of Apple's intensely secretive culture.
Apple Inc said it was awaiting results from an investigation into the death of a worker in China, after media reports said the man killed himself on learning he was suspected of leaking company secrets.
A worker from iPhone Plant in China committed suicide after an iPhone prototype went missing, a report confirmed by Apple.
Want Want China plans to make a second listing in Taiwan on April 28, becoming the first such firm to return to its home market to list under relaxed regulations, an industry source said on Monday.
The world's second largest electronics contactor, Flextronics International Ltd. (NASDAQ: FLEX), will acquire smaller rival, Solectron Corp. (NYSE: SLR for $3.6 billion in a move that will help consolidate an industry plagued by manufacturing overcapacity, as it strives for the top position.
Mobile phone maker Sony-Ericsson said Wednesday that it will begin manufacturing low-cost cell phones in India, capitalizing on manufacturing agreements made with Flextronics and Foxconn.
Apple Computer said on Thursday it has found no evidence of forced labor at a Chinese factory where its iPods are assembled, however added that its partner did violate some of Apple's code conduct.
Apple Computer Inc. said on Friday that its main supplier of iPod music players let employees in a China plant work longer hours than allowed by Apple's code of conduct, and that it had taken steps to address the issue.
