Rise of the Slurpee-phone: Foxconn may team with 7-Eleven on mobile devices

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7-Eleven convenience stores may soon be good for more than crusty hot dogs and oversized sodas. The Wall Street Journal reports that 7-Eleven is teaming up with iPhone manufacturer Foxconn to sell some of Foxconn’s own television sets in 7-Elevens across Taiwan. What’s more, the Journal says that the two companies “may cooperate in making smartphones and tablets in the future,” which would certainly expand 7-Eleven’s market well beyond the realm of unhealthy snacks. Foxconn has been pushing recently tolending devicemake its own smartphones and tablets comes as the company islending devicetrying to lessen its dependence on Applelending deviceand broaden its revenue sources.lending deviceFoxconn unveiled its first Firefox-based tablet earlier this yearlending deviceand the company plans to produce at least four more Firefox devices by

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