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...
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Crowds of Chinese Foxconn employees have lunch in a dining hall at Foxconn's Shenzhen plant.
Now Can We Start Talking About the Real Foxconn?
So Mike Daisey’s been outed. The things he said he saw, he didn’t. The people he said he spoke to, he didn’t. The discoveries he said he made, he didn’t. He lied. It matters a lot that Mike Daisey lied,...
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