Writes a $36 million cheque

Sharp said it would buy Toshiba's personal computer business and issue $1.8 billion in new shares to buy back preferred stock from banks, highlighting a swift recovery under the control of Foxconn.

Suddenly no-one is mentioning Apple

When Foxconn announced that it was going to be building an LCD screen plant in Wisconsin, the Tame Apple Press cheered pointing out the plant would be making screens for their favourite computers. But now the project has hit a snag - the Tame Apple Press appears to have forgotten Apple's connection to Foxconn.

2.7 million gallons of the water will disappear

Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources granted permission to Taiwanese tech manufacturer Foxconn, best known for assembling Apple's iPhones, to siphon off seven million gallons of water per day from Lake Michigan.

Replace human zoo with robots

The Apple partner whose chairman Terry Gou famously compared his staff with zoo animals and once asked a zookeeper for management techniques has apparently given up on messy biological life and is replacing 10,000 of them with robots.

Thanks to consumer electronics boom

Foxconn executives are laughing all the way to the bank after the outfit reported consolidated turned in revenues of $18.85 billion for November

Dissolving the joint because the synergies didnt breed

A joint venture server company established three years ago by HPE and Foxconn has been quietly dissolved recently for the terrible crime of failing to breed enough synergies.

Almost getting it to work

The problems that Foxconn is having with the iPhone X which have caused delays are starting to improve and apparently there are some starting to ship.

Will cost $10 billion

Foxconn will build three facilities in the US state of Wisconsin for operation as early as next year, as part of a campus housing a $10 billion liquid crystal display (LCD) factory due for 2020.

Expenses probably because of new iPhone costs 

The cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street are furious that Apple’s number one chum Foxconn fell short of its estimates by a huge 25 percent.

It will be 25 years before there are any benefits

The “great deal” which would see Foxconn open a show factory in the US is laced with so many sweeteners it looks like it will be a quarter of century before Illinois will see any benefit.