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Foxconn-Microsoft legal spat escalates
Published in News
Tuesday, 12 March 2019 12:42

Foxconn-Microsoft legal spat escalates


You say potato and I say tomato

Taiwanese mega-manufacturer Foxconn has outright denied that it infringed Microsoft patents and claimed it never needed to pay a red cent.

Foxconn optimistic about this year
Published in News
Monday, 11 February 2019 11:48

Foxconn optimistic about this year


Growing revenues

Foxconn expects its revenues to continue growing in 2019 although it is not sure exactly by how much.

Foxconn will go ahead with a downsized US LED  plant
Published in PC Hardware


After having a word with Donald Trump

Foxconn Technology Group will go ahead with plans to build a heavily government-subsidised plant in Wisconsin to make LCD after its chairman spoke with President Donald (Prince of Orange) Trump.

Foxconn rethinks US display deal
Published in News
Thursday, 31 January 2019 11:00

Foxconn rethinks US display deal


Global realities

Foxconn is rethinking its announced plans for a $10 billion display-making factory in Wisconsin because of "new realities" in the global marketplace.

Foxconn losing more staff
Published in News
Tuesday, 22 January 2019 12:05

Foxconn losing more staff


Facing a shortage

Foxconn is finding itself short of staff after it reduced numbers due to Apple’s cutbacks

Foxconn revenue drops
Published in News
Friday, 11 January 2019 13:04

Foxconn revenue drops


Cost of Apple dependence

Taiwan’s Foxconn reported an eight percent fall in its December revenue on Thursday presumably due to the failure of its key customer Apple to convince people to pay a third more for technology they pretty much already owned.

Apple and Foxconn to start building iPhones in India
Published in Mobiles


Where no one can afford them

Fruity cargo cult Apple will begin assembling its top end iPhones in India through the local unit of Foxconn as early as 2019.

Foxconn denies peace in our time with Qualcomm
Published in Mobiles


No surrender

The lead attorney for the group of Apple device assemblers seeking at least $9 billion in damages from Qualcomm said on Sunday the contract manufacturers are not in settlement talks with the mobile chip supplier and are “gearing up and heading toward the trial” in April.

Foxconn reveals huge cost of Apple dependence
Published in News
Thursday, 22 November 2018 12:31

Foxconn reveals huge cost of Apple dependence


Has to make $2.9 billion to avoid an annus horribilis


Foxconn is planning to cut $2.9 billion from expenses in 2019 as it faces "a very difficult and competitive year".

Foxconn misses estimates
Published in Mobiles
Tuesday, 13 November 2018 12:46

Foxconn misses estimates


Still rose by 18 per cent

Taiwan’s Foxconn, the world’s top contract electronics maker and a key Apple supplier, posted an 18.3 percent rise in third quarter net profit. This figure was well below what analysts had been expected.