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Mozilla and Foxconn collaborating on Firefox OS tablet: report
Foxconn and Mozilla are collaborating on a device that will run the latter’s Firefox OS, according to Reuters. Foxconn (also known as Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.) is reportedly interested in diversifying its business beyond the manufacture of Apple products, which contribute a significant… …
Three new factory suicides at Apple supplier Foxconn
Three Foxconn workers have committed suicide at a factory in China in the past three weeks, a labour rights group said on Saturday. All three jumped to their deaths at a plant in the central city of Zhengzhou run by the Taiwanese electronics giant. A 30-year-old married man killed himself…
Foxconn adds 10,000 Chinese assembly-line workers a week to meet new iPhone demand
Taiwan technology giant Foxconn has been increasing its assembly-line workforce in central China in preparation for the manufacture of a new iPhone, the company and media said Tuesday. Foxconn has been hiring workers in its Zhengzhou plant and will continue to do so to “meet operational demands”, spokesman Simon Hsing…
1,000 Foxconn workers on strike in China
Over 1,000 workers went on strike over working conditions at a plant linked to Foxconn, a rights group said on Saturday, in the latest controversy to hit the Taiwanese technology giant. Hong Kong-based Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehaviour (SACOM) said the strike erupted at a Foxconn factory in Fengcheng,…
Foxconn considers opening U.S. factories
Taiwan company’s reportedly evaluating LA and Detroit as site for TV assembly plants owing to rising labour costs at home Foxconn, the controversial Taiwanese manufacturer that has become one of the world’s largest employers thanks to booming demand for the Apple products it assembles, is reportedly planning to open factories…
Foxconn admits employing 14 year-old ‘interns’ in China
Taiwan’s Foxconn has admitted employing children as young as 14 on assembly lines at a plant in China, a fresh blow to the tech giant that has been attacked over its treatment of staff after several suicides. The company, which makes products for Apple and Sony, admitted it hired the…
Foxconn denies strike at China Apple iPhone plant
Electronics parts giant Foxconn denied reports Saturday that thousands of workers went on strike at one of its plants in central China and halted production of components for Apple’s iPhone 5. The Taiwan-based company acknowledged in a statement that two isolated labour disputes erupted at its plant in Zhengzhou on…
Foxconn iPhone factory reopens after brawl: Manager
A Foxconn factory making the iPhone 5 in northern China reopened on Tuesday, a manager said, a day after it shut down following a huge workers’ brawl that took 5,000 police several hours to quell. Foxconn – the world’s largest maker of computer components – assembles products for Apple, Sony…
Foxconn plant closes after brawl
A brawl involving as many as 2,000 workers forced Foxconn to close its Taiyuan plant in northern China late on Sunday, and left a number of people needing hospital treatment. “The fight is over now … we’re still investigating the cause of the fight and the number of workers involved,” said…
40 injured as 2,000 workers brawl at Foxconn manufacturing plant
A brawl at a plant operated by Foxconn, which assembles products for Apple and other tech firms, involved some 2,000 workers and left around 40 people injured, its parent company Hon Hai said on Monday. The incident happened at around 11:00 pm Sunday in a privately-managed dormitory for Foxconn workers…
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