The worldwide shipments in the smartphone market shows a decline of 6.3% in the fourth quarter of 2017. Overall Samsung remained at the top of the worldwide smartphone market in 2017. Only in the fourth…
After a year of imprisonment the vice president of the Samsung Group is free again in the same week his father has named as a suspect in a tax evasion case ($7.5 million). A panel…
The American chip company Qualcomm has rejected an revised offer ($121 billion) from Broadcom, but proposes a meeting. Broadcom’s first proposal in November 2017 (worth $ 105 billion) had been rejected without engaging further. However, this…
According to the Global E-waste Monitor 2017 report our worldwide e-waste rose with 8 procent in de last two years. The report predicts that e-waste will increase an additional 17 percent by 2021 and will…
How much do you know about corporations and their impacts? This is an important question that new EU disclosure requirements for corporations will help us being to answer. Watch this video made by ECCJ.
In August 2016 the European Commission ruled that Apple has to pay 13 billion of taxes to the government of Ireland. Ireland now is forced to collect this money the don’t want. The EC has…
Join the Greenpeace campaign and ask Samsung to stop fueling climate change. Greenpeace: “Despite all its PR talk of “championing the impossible” and “doing bigger things”, Samsung still relies on dirty, old-fashioned fossil fuels like…
The briefing paper ‘Transparency now’ examines the possibilities for the EU to make customs data public for the purpose of increasing transparency and accountability for human rights abuses committed by companies in the context of…
After the release of SACOM’s investigative report on student interns abuses in Apple’s production line and months of pressuring from international media and activists, Apple has officially admitted student interns abuses in its supply chain. And they…
In the mobile phone and computer industries labour rights are still a sore point. In particular the new market giant Huawei and HTC still have much to do. These are the findings of the updated rating…