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Tim Cook visits Foxconn plant in China
Bloomberg reports that Apple CEO Tim Cook recently paid a visit to one of Foxconn’s newest manufacturing facilities in Zhengzhou, China. Apple Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook visited Foxconn Technology Group’s newly built manufacturing facility for the iPhone in Zhengzhou, China, as the U.S. company seeks to improve working conditions. The iPhone production line is at the new Foxconn Zhengzhou Technology […]
Continue reading...Tim Cook meets with carrier partners in Beijing
Monday, March 26, 2012
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MacRumors has the story over here.
Continue reading...Gruber on Daisey
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
A must read: Daisey impugned the integrity of Apple, and the journalism of the New York Times and ABC News in order to work people up regarding problems that don’t exist. This only served to draw attention away from the labor, health, and environmental issues in Apple’s Asian supply chain that do exist. He has hurt the […]
Continue reading...Apple warns Hong Kong scalpers not to queue up outside
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Apple’s new iPad is set to launch in Hong Kong on Friday, and it’d be quite the understatement to say that Apple product launches there go off without a hitch. Unfortunately, scalpers are a big problem when it comes to Apple products as folks looking to make a quick buck are notorious for trying to […]
Continue reading...Samsung bests Apple in smartphone marketshare in China
Sunday, March 11, 2012
Though China Telecom recently began selling the iPhone, Apple’s share of the smartphone market in China still lags behind Samsung whose share is surprisingly 3 times as large as Apple’s. All told, Apple’s share of the Chinese smartphone market is 7.5% while Samsung’s is 24.3%. As opposed to Apple, Samsung has been willing to play ball […]
Continue reading...Apple’s iPad 3 shipments clogging up freight travel out of China
Monday, March 5, 2012
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On March 7, the top brass at Apple will introduce the iPad 3 to the world. In just a few days we’ll be well versed in all of the device’s new features while also learning when Apple’s next-gen tablet will hit store shelves. If Apple sticks to its usual pattern, the iPad 3 release date […]
Continue reading...China Telecom to start carrying the iPhone in early March
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
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After months of speculation, we now have official world that the iPhone will launch on China Telecom beginning in early March. With China Telecom now on board, Apple now has agreements with two of China’s top 3 carriers – the other being China Unicom. Of course, the big holdout is also the largest, that being […]
Continue reading...Chinese Police seize Apple iPhone branded gas stoves
Monday, February 27, 2012
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China is notorious as a haven for knockoff products that blatantly, and sometimes comically, infringe the intellectual property of others in an effort to make a quick buck. Just this past Summer, knockoff artists in China took things to an entirely new level when unauthorized and counterfeit Apple retail stores began popping up. And just […]
Continue reading...Apple cites impact on Chinese economy in iPad trademark spat
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
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Reuters reports: A Chinese technology firm sought to halt the sale of Apple Inc’s iPads across the affluent city of Shanghai, arguing at a local court hearing on Wednesday that the U.S. firm had infringed on its trademark. Previous court rulings in favor of Proview Technology (Shenzhen) have covered specific retailers in smaller cities, but […]
Continue reading...Lower Chinese Court rules that stores should pull iPads
Monday, February 20, 2012
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The drama in China over Apple’s iPad trademark rages on as a lower Chinese Court ruled recently that local iPad distributors should stop selling Apple’s tablet. Xie Xianghui, a lawyer for Shenzhen Proview Technology, said the Intermediate People’s Court in Huizhou, a city in southern China’s Guangdong province, had ruled on Friday that distributors should […]
Continue reading...The New York Times claims Apple is playing “access journalism”
Friday, February 17, 2012
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Stemming from their reports on working conditions at Foxconn, where Apple’s iPad and other electronics are manufactured, the New York Times is none too happy about their limited access to Apple in light of their Mountain Lion announcements this week. The Washington Post reports: Says a source at the Times: “They are playing access journalism…I’ve […]
Continue reading...Proview seeks to ban iPad exports from China
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
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Apple might be forced into a settlement with Proview sooner than later given the latter’s recent efforts to ban all imports and exports of the iPad from China, a dispute that stems from Proview’s assertion that it owns the iPad trademark. “We are applying to customs to stop any trademark- infringing products from imports to […]
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Thursday, March 29, 2012
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