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Foxconn Caves to Pressure, Ups Wages

Kevin Spak — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 11:24:26 CST

Foxconn will bump workers' salaries by as much as 25% while decreasing the amount of overtime demanded of them, the company announced this weekend, in a bid to stem the tide of outrage against it and high-profile customers such as Apple, Hewlett-Packard, and Dell. The move is a victory for...

Suicide-Plagued Foxconn to Swap People for Robots

Matt Cantor — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 10:25:05 CDT

Foxconn, the suicide-plagued maker of millions of Apple products in China, plans to use as many as one million robots on its assembly line within three years—compared to just 10,000 today, a Chinese report says. Increasing labor costs is a major driver behind the move, reports Reuters . "This...

Microsoft Unveils Windows 7 Phones

Kevin Spak — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 11:55:00 CDT

Microsoft unveiled its new Windows Phone 7 operating system today, showing off a whopping nine phones that will feature it (you can see most of them in the photo gallery). The wide launch presents a not-so-subtle counterpoint to Apple’s monolithic iPhone model, CNET observes. “The phones are always delightful, and...

Another Foxconn Worker Dead in Possible Suicide

Kevin Spak — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:11:00 CDT

Foxconn, the beleaguered Chinese company that produces products for Apple, Dell, HP, Sony, and other international electronics giants, has suffered what looks like another suicide. A man fell from a dormitory building to his death today, according to the official Xinhua news agency, and officials are investigating.

Why Microsoft Is Doomed to Be an Also-Ran

Caroline Miller — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 18:42:25 CDT

Henry Blodget winds up big and delivers a broadside against Microsoft on Business Insider today . The fact that Apple's market value passed Microsoft's a couple weeks ago is only the beginning. Blodget points out that a huge majority of Microsoft's profits come from Windows and Office, and both are being...

We're All Guilty in 'iPad Suicides'

Kevin Spak — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 11:18:48 CDT

At least 10 young workers at China's Foxconn factory have killed themselves this year, and you could argue that pretty much everyone reading this was in some way complicit in their deaths. Why? Because Foxconn makes products for Apple, HP, Dell, Microsoft, Nintendo and more, so odds are that at...

13th Worker Attempts Suicide at China Plant

Thu, 27 May 2010 15:04:38 CDT

A Foxconn Technology worker tried to kill himself today, becoming the 13th person to commit suicide or attempt to do so this year at the company, which makes high-tech products for industry giants such as Apple, Dell, and Hewlett-Packard. Police said the 25-year-old man survived after cutting himself in his...

10th Suicide Strikes Apple Plant

Rob Quinn — Thu, 27 May 2010 06:42:00 CDT

On the same day that Apple, Dell, and Hewlett-Packard promised to look into working conditions at China's Foxconn plant, a 10th worker committed suicide, PC World reports. The death of the 19-year-old male worker also came just after the company's billionaire founder took the media on a tour of the...

Dell's Tweets Bring $6.5M in Sales

Nick McMaster — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:58:44 CST

Twitter has proved to be a bit of a gold mine for Dell—the computer maker said promotions over the social-networking site directly resulted in more than $6.5 million in sales this year. The number of subscribers to Dell's Tweets has risen 23% over the last three months, to...