Ireland has to collect unpaid taxes from Apple
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…
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Samsung uses only 1% renewable energy
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…
Apple has admitted student intern abuses
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…
From Apple to Huawei: profit comes before workers’ rights
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…
Top 5 of smartphone companies now cover more than 75% of China’s market
While the Chinese smartphone market did not grow in the third quarter in 2017, the share of the five biggest companies grew and now occupy more than 75% of the market in China. Especially Apple…
Paradise Papers reveal how the offshore tax game is played by Apple
The Paradise Papers reveal that Apple changed their tax avoidance strategy and how they did it. Before May 2013 Apple avoided taxes by shifting tens of billions of dollars to their Irish subsidiaries. Nevertheless, chief…
Take action against Apple’s labour abuse now!
This Friday (3 November 2017) SACOM is calling for an ‘iSlave at 10’ Global Action Day when iPhone X will be launched. Together we can change the labour condition in Apple’s manufacturers. Please join this…
Rival firms eye up the global OLED screen market worth $21 billion.
As OLED becomes the ‘screen of choice’ analysts say that panels for smartphones will roughly triple over the next five years, while the market for LCD panels will fall 14%. The value of global OLED panel shipments…
A bloody decade of the iPhone
Ten years ago the first iPhone went on sale. The iconic product not only profoundly altered the world of gadgets, but also of consumption and tall corporate profit; this world would be impossible without the…
SACOM video “Apple: Student Interns or Disposable Labour?”
Students and Academics Against Against Corporate Misbehaviour (SACOM) is calling for a Global Action Day to End Apple’s iSlavery. With cooperation from GoodElectronics, SACOM has published a documentary animation on the mistreatment of Chinese student…