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Asian media reports fuel iPad Mini rumors

By Asian Correspondent Fri, Apr 20, 2012 3:36PM UTC View Comments

NEW YORK (AP) — Apple generates more gossip than the British royal family. There’s a constantly spinning mill of rumors about Apple products, most of which turn out to be untrue. What’s unusual this week is that talk has revived of a smaller iPad model, an idea company founder Steve Jobs derided publicly a year...

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Apple might acquire stake in Foxconn through parent company Hon Hai

By Asian Correspondent Fri, Apr 06, 2012 7:01PM UTC View Comments

Apple CEO Tim Cook, left, visits the iPhone production line at the newly-built manufacturing facility Foxconn Zhengzhou Technology Park, which employs 120,000 people, last month. Pic: AP

Taiwan’s Hon Hai Precision Industry, which owns Foxconn assembly plants that manufacture devices for Apple, is planning to issue new Global Depository Receipt (GDR) sales to raise more than US$ 3 billion in fresh capital. Its biggest client, Apple, is reportedly planning to become a major investor. With this acquisition, Apple might also be in...

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Apple’s China assembly line gets pay raise, fewer hours

By AP News Fri, Mar 30, 2012 11:28AM UTC View Comments

Staff members work on the production line at the Foxconn complex in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, Southern city in China. Pic: AP.

NEW YORK (AP) — Chinese workers who often spend more than 60 hours per week assembling iPhones and iPads will have their overtime hours curbed and their pay increased after a labor auditor hired by Apple Inc. inspected their factories. The Fair Labor Association says Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., the Taiwanese company also known...

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Apple + Baidu = End of the line for Google in China?

By Asian Correspondent Tue, Mar 27, 2012 1:12PM UTC View Comments

Apple is moving away from Google. In a string of pearls kind of approach, Apple has first moved away from Google Maps service in its latest iPhoto for iOS release. Now if the recent news is true, Apple would be kissing Google’s search engine goodbye in China. Apple’s iOS, the mobile OS that powers the...

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Chinese authorities seize iPads amid trademark row

By Asian Correspondent Tue, Feb 14, 2012 2:57PM UTC View Comments

Chinese authorities have begun confiscating Apple iPad 2 tablets for sale, as the company faces trademark-related lawsuits from a Proview Technology, that claims it owns the trademark to the brand “IPAD.” AP has earlier reported that Shenzen-based Proview Technology is the process of asking customs officials to block imports and exports of the Apple iPad,...

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