For years, the world has had trouble wrapping its head around that behemoth known to us all as Foxconn. Not helping matters has been the fact that Taiwan-based Foxconn Technology Group is actually a name given to a collection of...
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"Terry" Gou Tai-Ming, chairman and president of Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd., speaks in his office building at the Foxconn City complex in Shenzhen, China, in 2010.
Foxconn Doesn’t Want to Be Confused With Foxconn, So It’s Changing Its Name
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A customer inspects mobile devices at a kiosk selling Samsung products in Ambience Mall in Gurgaon, India.
A Spotlight Foxconn Is Willing to Share With Samsung
Foxconn doesn’t like to be compared with Samsung. Founder and Chairman Terry Gou has gone out of his way to tell audiences how the world’s biggest assembler of electronics is better and can defeat its South Korean rival on multiple...
Read more »Wozniak Still Backs Mike Daisey
Mike Daisey must be feeling some agony after his one-man show, “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,” was outed for embellishing its supposed first-hand accounts. But Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is still a big fan of the performance,...
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Workers walk outside Hon Hai Group's Foxconn plant in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, China, on Wednesday, May 26, 2010.
How a Google Search Unraveled Mike Daisey’s Apple-Foxconn Story
Mike Daisey, the monologist behind “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,” created a “reality-distortion field” of his own. But it didn’t fool Rob Schmitz. The China bureau chief for American Public Media’s Marketplace publication uncovered that Daisey had...
Read more »Media Outnumber Apple Protesters as Petition by 250,000 Is Delivered
At Apple’s Grand Central store in New York City today, the protest drew more members of the media than actual protesters. Outnumbered by journalists and even police officers, the group of fewer than 10 protesters showed up this morning to...
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