With the Redmi 2 Prime, Xiaomi Starts Making in India

Xiaomi announced the opening of its manufacturing operations in India at a media event in Visakhapatnam on Monday. The manufacturing operation at Sri City in Andhra Pradesh is set up in an exclusive partnership with Foxconn, and is Xiaomi’s second plant outside of China, with the first being in Brazil. “This just goes out to show the strength of the

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Foxconn CEO Wants to Open 10-12 Centres in India, Create 1 Million Jobs

On a short visit to Delhi, Foxconn (the company that’s most famous for manufacturing the iPhone) CEO Terry Gou met NDTV Gadgets as part of a tour of India that will see him travel to Mumbai and Bengaluru. Foxconn is one of the biggest hardware manufacturers in the world, with plans to set up new manufacturing units in India, –

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Brazil’s iPhone Investment Falls Short on Promises of Jobs, Lower Prices

The Brazilian iPhone was meant to mark a new era. When Taiwan’s Foxconn Technology Group agreed in April 2011 to make Apple products in Brazil, President Dilma Rousseff and her advisers promised that up to $12 billion in investments over six years would transform the Brazilian technology sector, putting it on the cutting edge of touch screen development. A new

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