Foxconn hiring 3,000 for Firefox OS

Taiwanese electronics manufacturing giant Foxconn Technology Group plans to hire as many as 3,000 workers to support development of devices running Mozilla’s fledgling Firefox OS. Foxconn “will do its best to develop the Kaohsiung [Taiwan] software center as the company’s software powerhouse,” the firm said in a statement. “There will be no budget limit for fostering software talent.”

Foxconn intends to create more than five Firefox OS-based smartphones and tablets by the end of this year. Foxconn–best known in the U.S. for building Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone and iPad–is making aggressive moves to expand its business beyond contract manufacturing, adding new clients while mulling investments in media content and software as well as plans to sell its own brand of accessories. “As our production capacity has grown to such a large scale and existing major-brand customers offer limited order growth, we need to actively expand our client base to help increase our manufacturing volume,” one Foxconn executive told The Wall Street Journal last month.

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