New orders for manufactured goods contracted for the sixth straight month through February, and manufacturing output is down 1.7% from its post-pandemic peak.
In November 2022, Apple warned that shipments of its iPhone 14 would be delayed because of the lockdown in Zhengzhou where Foxconn's mega-factory is located.
Japan faces a global slowdown, the soaring cost of raw materials and calls for firms to raise wages for their workers to help ease a cost-of-living crisis.
Sadhna Gupta, assistant manager of procurement research with Aranca, describes recent trends in the price and availability of silicon metal, an essential material for global manufacturing, as well as the outlook for the coming year.
When Microsoft introduced a new version of its Bing search engine that includes the artificial intelligence of a chatbot, company executives knew they were climbing out on a limb.
Ford Motor has stopped production and shipments of its electric pickup truck, the F-150 Lightning, while it looks into a potential problem with the vehicle’s battery pack.
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