Foxconn’s founder and Chairman Terry Gou told reporters any U.S. investment would not be for labor-intensive manufacturing such as assembling smartphones and tablet computers. Photographer: Ashley Pon/Bloomberg Foxconn Technology Group, the maker of Apple Inc.’s iPhone, is in talks with U.S. states including Arizona and Colorado to build advanced manufacturing facilities as part […]
General Electric’s Appliance Park has been in Louisville, Ky., since 1951. But it’s putting new power behind its U.S. production. The advantages to making products in the U.S. are starting to stack up — and companies are taking notice. Among them are Apple, and General Electric, which is making big investments at home. It’s […]
This isn’t your father’s America. Gone are the days you could graduate high school, get a job at a local factory, and have a job for life. The data suggests manufacturing jobs are in a permanent decline. Even so, we’re now manufacturing more and more stuff in the United States. It’s not that manufacturing left […]
Paul Gibson works on the Geo-Spring hybrid water heater at General Electric’s Louisville, Ky., plant. For many years, GE outsourced manufacturing of the water heater to a company in China. But in 2009, it decided to bring production back to the U.S. | Photo Credit: Jackie Northam/NPR For decades, American companies have been sending their […]
The rover Jade Rabbit, also known as Yutu, has been exploring the Moon’s soil China’s Jade Rabbit Moon rover is in trouble after experiencing a “mechanical control abnormality”, state media report. The Moon exploration vehicle ran into problems due to the moon’s “complicated lunar surface environment”, Xinhua news agency […]
The TODAY anchors got into the Olympic spirit, dressing up in the official Team USA uniforms as Ralph Lauren’s David Lauren (center, left) made the big reveal. TODAY The 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics are only two weeks away, and so it’s about time we got a close look at our athletes’ festive wardrobe. They’re 100 […]
On Tuesday, January 28 at 9pm ET, President Obama will deliver his fifth State of the Union Address. This year there will be more ways than ever to take part in the State of the Union, including a new way to watch the speech and share exclusive graphics with your […]
Vehicles move slowly through heavy smog in Beijing on Thursday, January 16. China’s manufacturing of exports generates pollution that harms air quality — not only in Asia but also all the way across the Pacific Ocean in the Western United States, according to a new study. (CNN) — Pollution doesn’t respect national […]
The downtown Los Angeles skyline on December 14, 2011 (AFP Photo/Frederic J. Brown) Washington (AFP) – Air pollution from China blows across the Pacific Ocean and ends up over the US west coast — and American consumerism is to blame for a portion of it, said a study Monday. […]
Study finds blowback causes extra day per year of ozone smog in LA. Chinese air pollution blowing across the Pacific Ocean is often caused by the manufacturing of goods for export to the U.S. and Europe, according to findings by UC Irvine and other researchers published today in the Proceedings […]
