Foxconn manager nicked 5,700 iPhones
Flogged them for $1.5 million
A Taiwanese Foxconn manager nicked 5,700 iPhones and flogged them for a $1.56 million profit and hugely undercutting Jobs' Mob
Amazon worker does a Foxconn
12 stories without a safety net
An angry Amazon employee sent an email to hundreds of co-workers, including Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos before flinging himself off Amazon’s 12-story Apollo building.
Trump ready to bribe Apple to move back to the US
Subsiding production like all good socialists
Donald “Prince of Orange” Trump has said that he is prepared to offer all sorts of sweeteners so that Apple will set up a plant in the US.
Apple prices to double if Trump forces it to return
The cost of “Made in America”
Apple’s assembler Foxconn has been looking at the possibity of setting up iPhone production to the US before Donald “Prince of Orange” Trump orders the US company to do so.
Taiwan’s smartphone sales decline
Lower than expected results
Shipments of smartphones by Taiwan-based brand vendors and handset ODMs showed a surprise fall.
Sharp might be waking up
Expects significant improvement
Troubled Japanese telly maker Sharp is expecting significant improvement in annual profit due to restructuring with its new owner Foxconn.
Foxconn installs Pork Explosion backdoor into Android gear
Porca misera
Android devices containing Foxconn firmware might have a backdoor thanks to a debugging feature left inside the OS bootloader.
Sharp to spend $570 million on OLED
Back in the game
Japan's Sharp is to spend $570 million on its OLED screen business in one of the first major investments since it was taken over by Foxconn.
Work begins on PS4 Pro
Ready for November 10
Foxconn and Pegatron have begun production of the PlayStation 4 Pro.
Auto makers complacent about IT rivals
Turning everything upside down
When, and it is a when rather than an if, autonomous driving cars really begin to tick, it’s going to turn the whole motoring industry upside down.