Technology

  Bloomberg Foxconn Technology Group has begun offering 10,000 yuan ($1,400) to any workers who choose to leave, an unusual decision intended to appease disgruntled new hires who played a central role in violent protests that rocked the world’s largest iPhone factory. Apple Inc.’s main global production partner said in an online notice the sum, to be paid out in ...

Bloomberg Apple Inc is preparing to begin sourcing chips for its devices from a plant under construction in Arizona, marking a major step towards reducing the company’s reliance on Asian production. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook made the disclosure during an internal meeting in Germany with local engineering and retail employees as part of a recent tour of Europe, according ...

  Bloomberg Google agreed to pay a total of $391.5 million to 40 US states to resolve a probe into controversial location-tracking practices that the Alphabet Inc. unit says it already discarded several years ago, in what state officials are calling the largest such privacy settlement in US history. Google will “significantly improve” its location-tracking disclosures and user controls starting ...

  Bloomberg Amazon.com Inc. has developed a robot capable of identifying and handling individual items, a milestone in the e-commerce giant’s efforts to reduce its reliance on the human order pickers who currently play a key role in getting products from warehouse shelves to customers’ doorsteps. The robotic arm, tipped by a set of retractable suction devices, is called Sparrow. ...

  Bloomberg ByteDance Ltd.’s TikTok has slashed about $2 billion off its target for 2022 ad revenue, underscoring fallout of a global downturn that’s hammered fellow internet giants from Google to Meta Platforms Inc. TikTok Chief Executive Officer Shou Zi Chew told a handful of employees that the Chinese-owned app has slashed its ad forecast for 2022 to $10 billion ...

Bloomberg Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. intends to keep expanding capacity in China despite persistent disruption from some of the world’s harshest Covid control measures. The company known as Foxconn intends to raise capital spending in 2023 and the biggest portion of that expenditure will go toward its already giant production base in China, Chairman Young Liu told analysts. Foxconn, ...

Tesla Inc is sending engineers and production staff from its recently upgraded Shanghai factory to its plant in Fremont, California, in a bid to boost production at the US facility. The Elon Musk-led carmaker will dispatch staff — in particular automation and control engineers — to assist efforts to increase output in Fremont, where Tesla produces the Model S, X, ...

Apple Inc.’s Taiwanese contract manufacturer Pegatron Corp. has begun assembling the company’s latest iPhone 14 model in India. That move makes Pegatron the second Apple supplier to produce the iPhone 14 in the country. It comes at a time when Apple’s key iPhone Pro manufacturing hub in the Chinese city of Zhengzhou — operated by Foxconn Technology Group — was ...

Chris Bryant | Anjani Trivedi Tesla Inc. would have delivered more cars in the most recent quarter but for a shortage of boats. It’s having problems finding vessel capacity out of Shanghai. No wonder: China recently overtook Germany as the world’s second-largest auto exporter. China’s auto exports rose over 50% in the first nine months of this year, shipping out ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM  UAE-China bilateral trade has exceeded $64 billion during the first eight months of 2022, which marked a 27.93 percent increase compared to the same period last year, a top Chinese diplomat told the Emirates News Agency (WAM) “China has become the UAE’s largest non-oil trading partner in the world, and the UAE remained China’s second-largest trading ...