Plans For Foxconn’s Wisc. Plant Change Again
Former President Donald Trump’s proclaimed “the 8th wonder of the world,” looks more like an overstated blunder with news this week that the originally promised massive U.S. display panel and electronics assembly campus in Wisconsin has been scaled back to something much more pedestrian. Taiwan-based…
Streaming Pirates May Suffer An Additional COVID-19 Symptom
The new COVID-19 stimulus bill presented in Congress this week has an added lump of Christmas coal awaiting anyone engaged in commercially pirating copyrighted video via for-profit streaming services. Congress slapped an anti-piracy streaming proposal onto the much-needed and highly debated new COVID-19 stimulus measure…
Tech Industry Celebrates SCOTUS Decision On DACA Dreamers
The Supreme Court’s controversial ruling Thursday that Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) recipients can continue to live and work in the United States without deportation was roundly celebrated by organizations from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to the Consumer Technology Association (CTA). The…
TV Sales Could Suffer Under President’s Mexican Tariffs
President Trump’s threatened 5% tariff on all imported goods from Mexico beginning June 10th could have a significant impact on the U.S. television business if carried out. The president announced the tariffs in a Twitter statement Thursday, saying the measure will be left in place…
Trump Tariff Exemptions Save Jobs Of Element TV Workers
The Trump administration this week gave a reprieve to the jobs of some 126 South Carolina TV factory workers by making an exemption for certain LCD TV component parts from a list of tariffs issued last July. According to a report Tuesday by The Greenville News,…
Element Plans To Halt U.S. TV Production As Tariffs On Parts Hit Home
Element, which has the distinction as one of the last remaining U.S. television manufacturers, is planning to end production at its factory in Winnsboro, South Carolina in October, due to tariffs on component TV parts sent from China. Element issued a statement on its Facebook…
Chinese TVs Dodge Trump’s Tariffs – For Now
The president’s decision to begin imposing tariffs on the first wave of products imported from China, apparently won’t have a big impact on most China-made televisions and displays sold here, but could still be coming if a trade war ensues, experts warn. President Trump said…
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