WASHINGTON — President Obama recently signed legislation reinstating and extending tax benefits for electronics companies.

ZHENGZHOU CITY -- Foxconn is nearing completion on the first phase of a massive campus in this northern China city and will hire more than 140,000 workers in the coming year, a local news source is reporting.

DANDERYD, SWEDEN -- Electronics manufacturing services provider NOTE has signed an agreement to divest its 50% holding in a subsidiary in Krakow, Poland.

TOKYO — Hitachi is calling published reports of the sale of its LCD manufacturing unit to Foxconn premature.