People have the right to know how CEOs and major corporations do on the “Hedonistic Index” of greed and power. (Common Dreams) The combination of greed and power often spin out of control and challenge ...
If we think inequality was bad before Covid-19, it’s about to get a whole lot worse. (Common Dreams) Six months into a global pandemic, the US economy just took its most grievous hit on record, ...
A new tech partnership augurs a bleak vision for the future of public safety and health emergencies where algorithms and mass profiling of entire populations make the social contract obsolete. (By: Raul Diego, Mintpress News) ...
If approved, the proposal would require the tech giant to make more detailed disclosures and human rights commitments. Proposed resolution set forth by Sum of Us Two major Apple shareholder groups support a measure requiring ...
“These companies – the richest companies in the world, these fancy gadget-making companies – have allowed children to be maimed and killed to get their cheap cobalt.” Apple, Google, Microsoft, Tesla and Dell have been ...
Apple just committed $2.5 billion to help alleviate the California housing crisis. Facebook and Google already committed $1 billion each. Is it enough? And why are they facing harsh criticism? On Monday, news broke about ...
Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and Alphabet have spent more than $330 million on attempts to influence federal lawmakers since 2008. (By Frank Bass, MapLight) The nation’s largest tech companies, which are currently facing state and federal investigations to determine ...
“After four decades of weak antitrust enforcement and judicial hostility to antitrust cases, it is critical that Congress step in to determine whether existing laws are adequate to tackle abusive conduct by platform gatekeepers or ...
“If you find yourself spending more time fighting than getting to work, stop and ask yourself, ‘Who benefits from all the chaos?'” Apple CEO Tim Cook criticized Big Tech companies for failing to manage the ...
“This is about how do we get competition back in this space,” said Congressman David N. Cicilline of Rhode Island as he announced antitrust investigations into big tech. The world of big tech was shaken ...
China’s economic growth slowed to 6.4 percent in the fourth quarter of 2018 compared to the same period in the previous year, the slowest pace in the past 28 years as the impact of the ...
Apple currently employs about 90,000 people in the United States. About 6,000 of those employees are already in Austin, with thousands more to come. As the saying goes, everything is bigger in Texas, and now ...
Accusations that Huawei has been conducting business in Iran through a company named Skycom have lead to the arrest of the tech company’s CFO and an increase in trade tensions. China’s Foreign Ministry summoned the ...
In an attempt to maintain control of prices and hold their monopoly, Apple restricts their customers to “authorized” repair shops that simply advise those customers to purchase a new device when their devices are damaged, ...