3/9: Foxconn doing the Fox Trot again?; PA firms eye huge deals overseas

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Foxconn Chairman Raises Uncertainties About U.S. iPhone Manufacturing Plant (MacRumors)
Its not clear that this proposed US plant would have anything to do with the iPhone.

Read next to this piece from WaPo: How Foxconn’s broken pledges in Pennsylvania cast doubt on Trump’s jobs plan.

AkzoNobel Shares Soar After Rejecting $22 Billion Takeover Bid From U.S. Paints Giant PPG (Fortune)

Yingde shareholders end board battle, paving the way for sale to PAG (South China Morning Post)
Air Products still waiting in wings as possible suitor.

Comcast Closes Icontrol Deal (Multichannel News)

Verizon, AT&T May Gain On Comcast, Charter From FCC Action (IBD)


Big data? Not yet. At HIMSS, time moves slowly (AthenaHealth)

Pa. sues IBM, alleging $60 million in cost overruns in unemployment-system contract (Philly.com)

SAP beefs up its integrated business planning suite (DCVelocity)

Millennials buy more clothes on Amazon than any other website (Recode)