• Microsoft closing Surface Hub manufacturing facility in Oregon, fires 124 workers, probably moves to China

    From Mike Rogoway at The Oregonian:

    Just two years ago, Microsoft cast its Wilsonville factory as the harbinger of a new era in American technology manufacturing.

    The tech giant stamped, “Manufactured in Portland, OR, USA” on each Surface Hub it made there. It invited The New York Times and Fast Company magazine to tour the plant in 2015, then hired more than 100 people to make the enormous, $22,000 touch-screen computer.