CHICAGO -- Research In Motion is asking a US court to invalidate a previous agreement with Motorola under which the firms agreed not to recruit each others' employees.
In a suit filed in a Chicago court, RIM, the world's top maker of smartphones, asserts improper
and unfair competitive practices on the part of Motorola is preventing the hiring of perhaps thousands of laid-off workers. The terminated Motorola workers had signed nondisclosure agreements which in effect would make them unhirable by competitors.
SHANGHAI -- Hon Hai will relocate tens of thousands of employees to lower-costs Chinese cities to take advantage of tax benefits and cut costs, according to published reports.
In order to cut operating costs by 20%, Hon Hai (Foxconn) will move up to 160,000 workers from a campus in Shenzhen farther inland to Wuhan and Jincheng, China Tech News said.
TAIPEI -- Foxconn has landed a contract to build the next-generation Apple iMac.
Digitimes is reporting Apple chose Foxconn over Quanta to produce some 800,000 units per month of the all-in-one PC.
Foxconn is also reportedly in the running to nab a deal with Sony Ericsson Xperia X2 smartphone. Other companies still bidding for the program include Pegatron, the manufacturing arm of
Asus, and a third undisclosed firm.
The Xperia X1 contractor, HTC, is out of the running, the report claimed,.