<div dir="ltr">this is pretty neat... <br><br><a href="http://venturebeat.com/2013/06/24/foxconn-3000-software-workers/">http://venturebeat.com/2013/06/24/foxconn-3000-software-workers/</a><br><br>
<h1 class="">Foxconn wants to step up its Firefox OS development with thousands of new engineers</h1>
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</div></div><p><a href="http://venturebeat.com/2013/06/03/foxconn-joins-firefox-os/">When Foxconn announced its support for Firefox OS</a>, it wasn’t kidding around.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2013/06/21/2003565268" target="_blank">The manufacturing giant said this weekend that hopes to recruit 3,000 software engineers</a> to help it develop for Mozilla’s mobile operating system in its software center in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.</p>
<p>To put that number in context, the Kaohsiung center currently houses
300 workers, making the addition of 3,000 new employees a pretty massive
investment. (The company had initially expected to hire from 500 and
1,000 workers.)</p>
<p>As Foxconn said in a statement: “There will be no budget limit for fostering software talent.”</p>
<p>The move is an important one for Foxconn, which is moving away from
simply making devices for big foreign companies like Apple. instead, the
company is pursuing what it calls a “‘eight screens, one network, and
one cloud’ strategy,” which essentially means that wants to have a
greater role in both the hardware and software design of the devices
made in its factories.</p>
<p>To put it simply: The Foxconn of the future will be a very different beast from the one we’re used to.</p><br></div>