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About 2,000 Chinese employees of Foxconn Technology Group, which makes the Apple iPhone, reportedly rioted into the early hours of Monday, 24 September 2012, forcing the plant where they work to shut down. As many as 5,000 heavily armed police may have been involved in stopping the disturbance at the factory in the northern Chinese city of […]
A new report from a watchdog group in China suggests that working conditions at Foxconn, the company that makes Apple’s iPhone,have not improved. Reports of abuse, dangerous working conditions, forced unpaid labor and worker suicides have drawn attention to Foxconn In Sept. 2012, researchers from Hong Kong-based organization Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehaviour (SACOM) […]
Continue reading …Stung by reports of abusive working conditions at a Chinese subcontractor, Apple has released a report claiming the company is responsible for creating more than 500,000 jobs worldwide. In a January report about its suppliers in Asia, Apple said it found examples of subcontractors employing children and forcing employees to work exceedingly long hours. Apple […]
Continue reading …Apple may soon be calling on India for more technical support. According to published reports in India, Apple may be considering increasing its outsourcing business with India’s major information technology firms. India’s Economic Times reports that Apple CIO Niall O’Connor visited Bangalore in January, meeting with top executives at the leading information technology outsourcing firms […]
Continue reading …From ProPublica: An investigative series by the New York Times and a performance piece by Mike Daisey featured on This American Life have put the spotlight on Foxconn, the Taiwanese company whose massive Chinese factories manufacture some of the world’s most popular consumer electronics. As well as working with companies like Dell, Motorola, Nokia and Hewlett-Packard, Foxconn assembles popular […]
Continue reading …Steve Jobs Dead: Apple Inc. chairman and co-founder Steven P. Jobs, personal computer pioneer who changed the way people think about and use technology, died Wednesday, 5 Oct. 2011, age 56. It’s hard to imagine how many jobs have been created because of the imagination of Steve Jobs. There are whole categories of employment — desktop publishing, for […]
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