Workers look on from a Foxconn logo near the gate of a Foxconn factory in the township of Longhua, Guangdong. Best known for putting together iPhones, Foxconn honed its skills by meeting Apple Inc's exacting standards and supply chain rigour. And it boasts a mindboggling workforce of more than 1 million - Reuters Photo.
TAIPEI/SAN FRANCISCO: Foxconn's BlackBerry Ltd deal marks the Taiwanese firm's biggest step up the value chain – a chance to not just assemble smartphones, but help design them, too.
The agreement to design and market phones starting in Indonesia, the world's fourth-most populous country but an under-penetrated market, is a boon to a mega-manufacturer trying to grow its margins while making a play for a bigger slice of the global mobile devices market.
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