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Foxconn
Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd. (), Trade name, doing business as Hon Hai Technology Group () in Taiwan, Foxconn Technology Group () in China, and Foxconn () internationally, is a Taiwanese multinational corporation, multinational electronics contract manufacturer established in 1974 with headquarters in Tucheng District, New Taipei City, Taiwan. In 2023, the company's annual revenue reached () and was ranked 20th in the 2023 Fortune Global 500, ''Fortune'' Global 500. It is the world's largest contract manufacturer of electronics. While headquartered in Taiwan, the company earns the majority of its revenue from assets in China and is one of the List of largest employers, largest employers worldwide. Terry Gou is the company founder and former chairman. Foxconn manufactures electronic products for major American, Canadian, Chinese, Finnish, and Japanese companies. Notable products manufactured by Foxconn include the BlackBerry, iPad, iPhone, iPod, Amazon Kindle, Kindle, al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foxconn Technology Co
Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd. (), doing business as Hon Hai Technology Group () in Taiwan, Foxconn Technology Group () in China, and Foxconn () internationally, is a Taiwanese multinational electronics contract manufacturer established in 1974 with headquarters in Tucheng District, New Taipei City, Taiwan. In 2023, the company's annual revenue reached () and was ranked 20th in the 2023 ''Fortune'' Global 500. It is the world's largest contract manufacturer of electronics. While headquartered in Taiwan, the company earns the majority of its revenue from assets in China and is one of the largest employers worldwide. Terry Gou is the company founder and former chairman. Foxconn manufactures electronic products for major American, Canadian, Chinese, Finnish, and Japanese companies. Notable products manufactured by Foxconn include the BlackBerry, iPad, iPhone, iPod, Kindle, all Nintendo gaming systems since the GameCube, Nintendo DS models, Sega models, Nokia devices, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terry Gou
Terry Gou (; born 18 October 1950) is a Taiwanese billionaire businessman and politician. Gou is the founder and former chairman and chief executive officer of Foxconn, the world's largest contract manufacturer of electronics. Founded in 1974, Foxconn grew to become an international business empire, becoming the largest private employer and exporter in Taiwan with a workforce of 1.2 million. As of 2024, Gou had a net worth of billion. Beginning in 2016, speculation surrounding Gou's political ambitions arose ahead of the 2020 presidential election. In 2019, Gou resigned from Foxconn and joined the Kuomintang (KMT) to run for president, declaring he was instructed by the sea goddess Mazu in a dream to contest the election. Gou ultimately lost the election, coming in second in the Kuomintang primary. After leaving the party following the 2019 primary, Gou rejoined in 2023 and announced his intention to run for president in the 2024 presidential election, but after running as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foxtron
Foxtron Inc. or Foxtron Vehicle Technologies is a Taiwanese manufacturer of electric cars and buses based in Taipei, operating since 2020 as a joint venture between the technology company Foxconn and the car company Yulon. History In February 2020, Taiwanese electronic components giant Foxconn and local car manufacturer Yulon agreed to establish a joint venture company. Previously, Foxconn had limited involvement in the automotive industry only as a component supplier or investor, and decided to actively enter it as a manufacturer. Yulon's automotive component development and manufacturing subsidiary Hua-Chuang Automobile Information Technical Center Company (HAITEC) would invest NT$7.632 billion and hold a 49% share, while Foxconn would invest NT$7.944 B for a 51% share. Yulon previously had announced a joint venture with Fiat Chrysler Automobiles on January 16, 2020. The goal was to develop electric cars. The joint venture's first product was the MIH (Mobility i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foxconn Industrial Internet
Foxconn Industrial Internet Co., Ltd. (Fii; ) is a publicly listed company that engages in the manufacture and sale of electrical equipment that includes telecommunications equipment, cloud computing equipment, precision tools and industrial robots. It is a subsidiary of Foxconn and is headquartered in Shenzhen. Background Fii was founded in 2015 in Shenzhen. It was originally a wholly-owned subsidiary of Foxconn that was set up as a strategic investment platform uninvolved in actual business operations. In 2017, Fii was restructured to become a joint stock limited company. On 8 June 2018, Fii held its initial public offering (IPO) becoming a publicly listed company on the Shanghai Stock Exchange. It was the second company in China to be fast-tracked for its listing process. At the time it was the largest IPO in China since 2015 and raised 27.1 billion yuan. On its trading debut, Fi shares rose 44% making it valuable tech company listed in mainland China at the time. It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sharp Corporation
is a Japanese electronics company. It is headquartered in Sakai, Osaka, and was founded by Tokuji Hayakawa in 1912 in Honjo, Tokyo, and established as the Hayakawa Metal Works Institute in Abeno-ku, Osaka, in 1924. Since 2016, it is majority owned by the Taiwan-based manufacturer Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd., better known as Foxconn. Sharp makes and has made throughout its history various different Consumer electronics, consumer electronic products, including kitchen appliances such as Microwave oven, microwave ovens, cookers, washing machines and refrigerators; home appliances such as solar cells, vacuum cleaners, Air purifier, air purifiers and lighting; home and office devices such as Printer (computing), printers, Computer monitor, computer displays, Television set, TV sets, camcorders, Videocassette recorder, VCRs, as well as calculators and various audio products such as Radio receiver, radios, Home audio, audio systems and wireless speakers. Sharp's net sales re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belkin
Belkin International, Inc., is an American consumer electronics company headquartered in El Segundo, California. It produces mobile and computer connectivity devices and peripherals for consumer and commercial use. These include wireless chargers, power banks, charging cables, data cables, audio and video adapters, headphones, earbuds, screen protectors and cases, surge protectors, docking stations and data hubs, secure KVM switches and network cables. History While attending UCLA, Chet Pipkin, who was spending his time in local computer shops, saw the growing need for cables that would connect personal computers to new printers being released for home use. In the early 1980s, Chet Pipkin founded Belkin in his parents' home in Hawthorne, California, to manufacture computer cables for the new personal computer and tech accessory market. Pipkin began to sell computer-to-printer cables to local computer shops. As Pipkin's cable connector sales grew in Southern California, he re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Young Liu
Young-way Liu is the chairman and CEO of Foxconn. Biography Liu was born in 1956. In 1978, he graduated from the National Chiao Tung University with a degree in electrophysics. He went on to complete a master's degree in computer engineering from the University of Southern California in 1986. He joined Foxconn in 2007. In 2019, he was appointed the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan The Padma Bhushan (IAST: ''Padma Bhūṣaṇa'', lit. 'Lotus Decoration') is the third-highest civilian award in the Republic of India, preceded by the Bharat Ratna and the Padma Vibhushan and followed by the Padma Shri. Instituted on 2 Januar ..., the third-highest award of India, in 2024. References Taiwanese chief executives Foxconn people Recipients of the Padma Bhushan in trade and industry National Chiao Tung University alumni University of Southern California alumni 1956 births Living people {{Taiwan-business-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smart Technologies
Smart Technologies (styled as SMART Technologies) is a Canadian company headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Canada and wholly owned by Foxconn. Founded in 1987, SMART is best known as the developer of interactive whiteboards branded as the "Smart Board" (styled as SMART Board) widely used in education and business. History Smart was founded in 1987 by husband and wife David Martin and Nancy Knowlton. In 1991, Smart introduced its interactive whiteboard, branded the "Smart Board". In 2003, Smart developed and later patented DViT (Digital Vision Touch) technology which was an important feature of the SMART Board. In 2009, Smart filed a patent infringement lawsuit against New Zealand-based NextWindow before acquiring the company outright in 2010. On July 15, 2010, Smart Technologies placed an initial public offering on the NASDAQ stock exchange and Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX), raising upwards of $660 million. Later that year, several class action complaints were filed ag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BlackBerry
BlackBerry is a discontinued brand of handheld devices and related mobile services, originally developed and maintained by the Canadian company Research In Motion (RIM, later known as BlackBerry Limited) until 2016. The first BlackBerry device launched in 1999 in North America, running on the Mobitex network (later also DataTAC) and became very popular because of its "always on" state and ability to send and receive email messages wirelessly. The BlackBerry pioneered push notifications and popularized the practise of " thumb typing" using its QWERTY keyboard, something that would become a trademark feature of the line. In its early years, the BlackBerry proved to be a major advantage over the (typically) one-way communication pagers and it also removed the need for users to tether to personal computers. It became especially used in the corporate world in the US and Canada. RIM debuted the BlackBerry in Europe in September 2001, but it had less appeal there where text mess ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IPad
The iPad is a brand of tablet computers developed and marketed by Apple Inc., Apple that run the company's mobile operating systems iOS and later iPadOS. The IPad (1st generation), first-generation iPad was introduced on January 27, 2010. Since then, the List of iPad models, iPad product line has been expanded to include the smaller iPad Mini, the lighter and thinner iPad Air, and the flagship iPad Pro models. As of 2022, over 670 million iPads have been sold, making Apple the Tablet computer#By manufacturer, largest vendor of tablet computers. Due to its popularity, the term "iPad" is sometimes used as a Generic trademark, generic name for tablet computers. The iPhone's iOS operating system (OS) was initially used for the iPad, but in September 2019, its OS was switched to a Fork (software development), fork of iOS called iPadOS that has better support for the device's hardware and a user interface tailored to the tablets' larger screens. Since then, IPadOS version histor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Largest Employers
Largest employers Below is the list of largest employers including government owned companies and institutions in 2022. Fortune Global 500 Following is the list of Fortune 500 companies providing the most jobs worldwide, according to a list published in 2023 by ''Fortune'' magazine. See also * Fortune Global 500 * Forbes Global 2000 * List of multinational corporations * List of largest European manufacturing companies by revenue * List of largest financial services companies by revenue * List of the largest software companies * List of largest Internet companies * List of largest technology companies by revenue * List of private-equity firms * List of largest companies by revenue * List of public corporations by market capitalization * List of largest corporate profits and losses * Lists of occupations The following are lists of occupations grouped by category. Arts and entertainment * List of artistic occupations * List of dance occupations * List of entertainer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
