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Foxconn Increases Compensation For Suicide Employee’s Family
8:22AM Jason Chen | Foxconn just increased the compensation for their worker that killed himself as a result of possible beatings and interrogations over a lost iPhone. More »
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Foxconn Worker Had 16 iPhone Prototypes, Girlfriend Given Apple Laptop As Compensation
12:00AM Matt Buchanan | The NYT has more on the death of Sun Danyong, the Foxconn worker who apparently committed suicide after an iPhone prototype went missing. As compensation, his family has been paid about $US44,000, and his girlfriend received an Apple laptop. More »
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Foxconn iPhone Worker Sun Danyong’s Final Text Message
3:01AM Matt Buchanan | Chinese newspapers have been piecing together Foxconn worker Sun Danyong’s final hours, and claim to have recovered his final text message to his girlfriend, sent two hours before he died. It’s clear something horrible was happening to him: More »
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Chinese Paper Reports iPhone Worker Not Tortured, Told Foxconn To Search His House
2:44AM Matt Buchanan | The New Yorker reports Chinese paper Southern Daily claims they’ve seen surveillance footage of Sun Danyong’s interrogation by Foxconn, which show that he wasn’t locked up or tortured. It also says that Sun told Foxconn to search his house. More »
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Why Apple Will Probably Keep Doing Business With Foxconn After iPhone Leak Death
1:59AM Matt Buchanan | Whatever role iPhone builder Foxconn played in 25-year-old Sun Danyong’s death after a prototype iPhone he was entrusted with went missing, they will likely not pay the highest of prices: Losing Apple’s business. More »
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Death By IPhone: Apple And China’s Cultural Time Bomb
6:30AM John Herrman | Last week, a 25-year-old factory worker died in an “apparent suicide” after losing track of a prototype iPhone built by Foxconn, his employer, for one of the most secretive companies in technology. It was only a matter of time. More »
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Perspective On The iPhone Suicide: Guy Died Over A F*&#ing PHONE
4:00AM Jason Chen | Let’s step back from the iPhone leak suicide for a minute and just think about the basics of what happened. A phone was lost. A guy was tortured. A guy killed himself or something. Over a fucking phone. More »
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Chinese Police Take Over iPhone Suicide Investigation, Foxconn Security Official Suspended
9:39PM John Herrman | Foxconn has suspended a security official, and turned over its probe into a worker’s recent alleged suicide to police, who are currently investigating the possibility of murder. Reports say that 25-year-old Sun Danyong was subjected to brutal treatment—including beatings—by Foxconn security after a shipment of prototype iPhones turned up at Apple’s door one device short. More »
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