Hewlett-Packard has issued new guidelines to limit the use of student labor at its supplier factories in China, in what it claimed was the first of its kind for the IT industry. The company issued the guidelines to address "the ...
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Assembly line workers are logging 12-hour days to churn out the latest handsets for Samsung Electronics at a factory in Huizhou, China. 24-year-old Wang Hong Wei knows what it's like: He and about four to six others would collectively ...
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Stringent iPhone 5 production specifications established by Apple and supply issues with new components like the Lightning port and larger screen could be responsible for Foxconn's delays of the handset, analysts said on Wednesday. ...
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Cloud computing is going to cause a spate of horrible problems as data owners lose control of their information, according to the co-founder of Apple, Steve Wozniak. Wozniak, who co-founded the world's most valuable company with the late ...
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Apple supplier Foxconn has steadily improved the working conditions at three of its Chinese factories following a February audit, by reducing employee overtime work and updating maintenance policies and safety procedures, a labor group said ...
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SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — Accent importer GuildMaster filed for bankruptcy protection on Thursday following a federal indictment alleging sale of lamps with counterfeit Underwriters Laboratories stickers. The indictment, filed in the ...
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Foxconn, Apple’s giant Taiwanese manufacturing partner, denies reports that workers at one of its Chinese factories went on strike Friday and says the only disturbances happened earlier in the week but were squelched right away. The ...
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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Commerce has announced it plans to delay the issuing of preliminary results in its countervailing duty investigation of Chinese hardwood plywood until Feb. 26. The case pits importers of ...
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Taipei, Dec. 5, 2012 (CENS)--The four major member firms of Formosa Plastics Group (FPG) racked up total revenue of NT$137.677 billion in November, up 3.2% year-on-year, announced the group yesterday (Dec. 4). The group noted that the ...
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Taipei, Nov. 14, 2012 (CENS)--Hon Hai Precision, Taiwan’s leading manufacturing firm, scored an extraordinary profits performance in the third quarter this year, with its consolidated gross margin reaching 9.54%, the highest since the ...
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The name Foxconn has become shorthand for the human costs of building the iPhone in China, linking Apple to bad publicity about worker suicides, deaths from a plant explosion and rioting factory workers. But many other companies besides ...
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WASHINGTON --- U.S. Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) says he is pushing the Obama administration for stronger enforcement of trade laws in response to concerns from Virginia furniture companies about uncollected duties on Chinese-made wooden bedrooms. ...
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How can it be that a company clever enough to satisfy Apple’s famously stringent requirements can’t figure out how to keep its workers from killing themselves and hurting one another? Last week’s riot at a Foxconn ...
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This chaise lounge is in the Savona collection that is part of the new licensed whole home line that Lacquer Craft USA is launching in partnership with Metropolitan Home, a Hearst Magazines title. HIGH POINT -- Case goods and ...
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China is no doubt a business source of many business institutions across the world especially knowing the fact that this country has been one of the world's most efficient exporters. To gain a good amount of profit in the business ...
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