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A year after Apple Inc supplier Wistron Corp faced an uprising in India, its larger rival Foxconn Technology Group, known in Taiwan as Hon Hai Precision Industry Co, is encountering a similar rebuke. This time, their key client is getting drawn into what ought to serve as a wake-up call for Taiwanese manufacturers in the South Asian nation. Concerns about food safety and accommodation standards spurred Apple to take the unusual step of placing a factory near the southern Indian city of Chennai on probation. More than 17,000 people work at the facility, and in the middle of last month hundreds

It was a warm spring evening in Taipei and more than 100 celebrities, founders, venture capitalists and tech executives gathered for cocktails and hors d’oeuvres. The headline event, a fireside chat, was just an excuse for Taiwan’s best-connected people to socialize, enjoying the kinds of freedoms the rest of the world lacked amid another wave of COVID-19 shutdowns. Notable was that many in the crowd were not long-term residents of Taiwan. While quite a few were born there, or had family connections, most had spent little time in their ancestral homeland while building their lives in Sili...

It was a warm spring evening in Taipei and more than 100 celebrities, founders, venture capitalists and tech executives gathered for cocktails and hors d’oeuvres. The headline event, a fireside chat, was just an excuse for Taiwan’s best-connected people to socialize, enjoying the kinds of freedoms the rest of the world lacked amid another wave of COVID-19 shutdowns. Notable was that many in the crowd were not long-term residents of Taiwan. While quite a few were born there, or had family connections, most had spent little time in their ancestral homeland while building their lives in Sili...

There’s good reason to think twice about whether tech users will truly benefit from 24-7 monitoring and arbitrary goals served up by an algorithm.

IT was a warm spring evening in Taipei and more than a hundred celebrities, founders, venture capitalists and tech executives gathered for cocktails and hors d’oeuvres.