Samsung wants more of its devices to made in China
The South Korean technology giant is outsourcing more manufacturing to Chinese companies.
The South Korean technology giant is outsourcing more manufacturing to Chinese companies, in an effort to cut costs. However the additional work could help the companies in China expand and be able to do more work for Samsung's rivals, like Huawei, or Xiaomi. We hear analysis of Samsung's challenges from Stuart Miles the founder of the technology and gadget analysis group Pocket Lint,.
Ford Motor Company has unveiled an electric version of its iconic Mustang spots car. Nicky Gordon-Bloomfield, a motoring journalist with Transport Evolved, explains the transition from gas guzzling muscle cars to electric vehicles.
The office-sharing company WeWork has had a tough year, so we ask where things went wrong. Russ Mould of London brokers A J Bell tells us where the company figures on the scale of corporate calamities of recent years, after it shelved its stock market listing, ditched its chief executive and had to find alternative funding. An employee who works out of a WeWork facility in the UK explains some of the perks like free beer that have attracted people to sign up to the service. And Shira Ovid茅, technology columnist at Bloomberg, says the prospectus for WeWork's abandoned share listing was one of the strangest documents she had ever read.
Also in the programme, in the latest of our series of interviews exploring the economic policies of UK political parties, ahead of next month's general election, we talk to Molly Scott-Cato, the Brexit and finance spokesperson for the Green Party.
(Picture: A Samsung smartphone. Getty Images.)
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