A Taiwanese firm has dropped its libel claim against two Shanghai journalists and their newspaper for saying that workers at a plant manufacturing iPods were mistreated, the official Xinhua news agency said on Sunday. Shenzhen-based Foxconn, which manufactures iPods for Apple Inc. and the China Business News had apologised to each other for the trouble caused by the lawsuit, Xinhua said. Foxconn International Holdings is an arm of Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. In a joint statement the two sides also agreed to cooperate to protect workers' rights...