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Apple Supplier Halts Production After Violence

Posted September 24th, 2012 at 3:15 am (UTC-5)
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Foxconn, the company that makes Apple’s iPhones, has suspended production at a factory in northern China after a brawl that involved as many as 2,000 workers and left about 40 people injured. The clash erupted late Sunday in a privately-managed dormitory for Foxconn employees who work at the company’s factory in Taiyuan. China’s Xinhua news […]

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Chinese-Based iPhone Maker is Stripped of Blue-Chip Status

Posted June 8th, 2011 at 3:15 am (UTC-5)
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Foxconn, the troubled, China-based manufacturer of iPhones and other electronic devices, has suffered a blow to its prestige with its delisting from Hong Kong’s Hang Seng stock index. Tuesday’s action is the latest in a series of setbacks for the world’s largest electronics subcontractor, which also assembles Apple iPads, Amazon Kindles, Nokia smartphones and other […]

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