Brandirectory publishes annual overviews of the world’s most valuable brands. The electronics industry is well represented in the 2010 report. Google ranks first and Microsoft third in the Brandirectory. The top 25 includes consumer electronics…
When centrally controlled economic systems collapsed and the markets of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) opened up to foreign capital, most of the world’s big electronics companies started to invest in the region. How did…
In the Mexican crisis, the workers save the electronics industry but in return labour conditions worsen. What has happened to workers in the supply chains of Nokia, Philips, Panasonic, IBM, HP, Lenovo, Sanmina, Jabil and…
Google, IBM and Microsoft should use their influence in Washington to help get a strong international climate deal in Copenhagen, says Greenpeace. Google, Microsoft and IBM are amongst the largest and most influential of US…
As You Sow challenged Apple Inc. to match the performance of its peers in a shareholder proposal presented at its annual meeting in May. HP, Dell, IBM and Intel have made public commitments to greenhouse…
Greenpeace’ strategy is simple: Get influential IT execs to lobby key governments for a strong, planet-saving agreement at the December 2009 climate change summit in Copenhagen. Greenpeace calls upon Cisco, Fujitsu, Google, HP, IBM, Nokia…
Today, the National Labor Committee (NLC) is releasing a 60-page report, High Tech Misery in China, documenting the grueling hours, low wages and draconian disciplinary measures at the Meitai factory in southern China. The 2,000…
The American NGO As You Sow is successful in its effort to push Best Buy, the largest US electronics retailers to offer free take back of electronic waste in more than 10 of its US…
A slowing American economy is not hurting IBM yet. But the strength of the technology giant’s quarterly profit – up 24 percent – may not be as reliable an indicator of broader trends in the…
Lawyers for about 90 current and former residents of New York state filed suit against IBM on Thursday alleging that chemicals from an IBM plant have caused congenital heart defects in infants and kidney cancers…