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Michael Dell on Foxconn, Windows 8, Enterprise Solutions
Monday, February 27, 2012 - 12:28pm | 363Read More...Earlier, Michael Dell appeared on CNBC. Dell stated that the company has more than doubled the size of its enterprise service solutions. Dell is working to introduce the next generation of power edge servers. Dell stated that new social and cloud-based companies are stressing systems and these...
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Pay Us or We Kill Ourselves Say Foxconn Workers
Friday, January 13, 2012 - 12:42pm | 440Read More...Many of us have been the situation in the past where we cannot get unscrupulous employers to pay what we are owed. Most of us have had bad jobs in the past and worked for people who are either just plain bad or who have literally run out of cash. It sucks to have worked hard and then potentially...
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Is Your iPad Getting a Brazilian?
Thursday, October 13, 2011 - 4:01pm | 167Read More...Foxconn is looking to manufacture iPads in Brazil. The new manufacturing plans are slated to go into effect this December. But according to Reuters, Foxconn is still negotiating “a multibillion-dollar expansion plan in the country.” Reuters says that these lengthy negotiations are a reflection of...
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Terminated Employee Gets Mad, Gets Even by Tweeting Under His Boss's Name
Thursday, September 22, 2011 - 7:47am | 210Read More...As a ghostwriter, this unnamed employee became quite comfortable tweeting as his/her employer. But when Mark Davidson, a self-proclaimed social marketing and communications strategist, chose to fire one of his three ghostwriters, the terminated employee decided to see if Davidson's Twitter...
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I, For One, Welcome Our New Robot Overlords
Monday, August 1, 2011 - 12:11pm | 481Read More...Foxconn announced this morning that it is going to add 1 million robots to its assembly lines to help with production of products such as the Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad, iPhone and other products manufactured there. There are supposedly 10,000 robots working at the factory now, and that number is...
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iPad 2 Recall Adds to Supply Concerns
Saturday, June 11, 2011 - 10:30am | 210Read More...The recently announced recall of some Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad 2s designed to work on the Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) network could further constrain supplies of the popular tablet device, this at a time when the company is already struggling to meet demand. Apple has halted the delivery of an "...
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Can the Dollar Drop Fast Enough to Keep the Markets Up?
Thursday, October 14, 2010 - 1:40pm | 2136Read More...By Phil at Phil's Stock World Wheeee - this is fun! The dollar dropped to 76.5 this morning and that gave us a nice pop in the futures which is fading now (8am) as we move towards our 8:30 Trade Report along with the PPI and, of course, the usual 450,000 weekly...
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Plenty Of Hiring - Just Not In America
Wednesday, September 29, 2010 - 2:06am | 634Read More...People often ask where the jobs are with all the money sloshing around by the Fed. The fact is, there are plenty of jobs around, with companies hiring in the thousands. To know what is going on, the following three articles should provide a clue: Foxconn Hiring 400000 Additional Workers Over...
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Plenty Of Hiring - Just Not In America
Wednesday, September 29, 2010 - 2:05am | 604Read More...People often asked where the jobs are with all the money sloshing around by the Fed. The fact is, there are plenty of jobs around, with companies hiring in the thousands. To know what is going on, the following three articles should provide a clue: Foxconn Hiring 400000 Additional Workers Over...

