Tag Archives: Supply Chain

Apple To Go Large In 2014 With iPhone 6 In May And iPad Max in October

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Now that the ink is drying on Apple's deal with China Mobile, supply chain rumors are emerging about Apple’s next significant product releases. Digitimes reports that according to “sources from the...
    






Lazada, Tesco and the Logic of Logistics

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The customers of Lazada are all online but the regional shopping site sometimes resorts to attracting them the old-fashioned way: with TV ads, like the one above shown in Indonesia. I probably should...
    






Warby Parker nets $60 million from investors

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Warby Parker, seller of hipster-beloved glasses has raised $60 million. This latest funding round, first reported by Fortune, was led by Tiger Global Management. It brings the company’s total funding...
    






Jabil’s Shortfall May Not Mean Much To Apple’s Results

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One of the reasons Apple was down $4 on Wednesday and down over $16 at its low (and possibly one reason it was down over $6 on Thursday) was Jabil’s poor guidance for its February quarter. Two of the...
    






A Death of a Young Worker in Apple’s Factory in China Was Not Due to Poor Working Environment

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Apple Balla reports that Apple’s medical expert team, sent to find out the cause of death of a 15-year old factory worker in Pegatron, one Apple’s factories in China, discovered that the young worker...
    






Foxconn Using 300,000 Workers Exclusively for Making iPhone 5s, Making 500,000 Units a Day

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Apple Balla reports that more than 300,000 Foxconn’s employees in the factory in Zhengzhou, China are working exclusively on iPhone 5S. Analyst Gene Munster, who works for Piper Jaffray, writes that...

Taiwan’s Quanta Rumored to Produce Apple’s Jumbo iPad and Maybe iWatch

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Apple Balla reports that Apple plans on usin Taiwan-based company Quanta Computer to manufacture its new large iPad and maybe even the "iWatch".Quanta has allegedly already won the bid for producing...

Moto G to include Android 4.4 KitKat with its US Version

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Its launches are already planned for this week in Brazil and some parts of Europe; but unfortunately, for the US consumers joining for some G in their typical lives, the new Motorola handset is...

Foxconn Switches Whole Plant from iPhone 5C to iPhone 5S

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Is the iPhone 5C a failure? It is hard to find out if the iPhone 5C is a new hit for Apple or is just not getting traction compared to the iPhone 5S. There is some evidence that suggests that the...

The Release of iPad Mini Sets Back Due to the Burn-in Display Issue

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According to Apple Balla, a burn-in issue of the Retina display has forced Apple to change the schedule of launching the iPad Mini.A Korean based news website called ETNews informs that the panel’s...