While much of today’s attention is focused on Large Language Models, the field of Artificial Intelligence encompasses many other sectors. In the following we provide a brief overview of the AI market and its key players. According to Statista, the AI market is projected to reach...
Companies, Corporate Governance, Fashion, Tax Avoidance, Tech / 20.10.2020
OECD is guiding the international community in addressing the problem with tech giants and corporate tax
The international community guided by OECD has increasingly committed to finding a solution for the tax challenges connected to the digitalization of the economy. What the OECD proposed would assure that companies, especially big techs such as Google and Amazon, would pay taxes to the...
Companies, Tech / 19.10.2020
The power of Big Tech must be reined in
As the world of Big Tech is populated by a few colossi holding a disproportionate amount of power, both the EU and the US are taking steps forward. From measures aimed at fostering transparency and accountability, to more radical measures ensuring fair competition, the sector...
Companies, Coronavirus, Corporate Governance, Fashion, Tech / 21.07.2020
International supply chains have been linked to Uighurs forced labor and human rights violation
Suppliers of international tech and fashion companies, such as Apple, Nike and Calvin Klein, have been exploiting forced labor from ethnic minority groups, mostly Uighurs, detained in the Xinjiang region, China. Organizations have already started to take action. Several investigations carried out in the last year by The...
ESG, Tech / 20.12.2019
Investors to pressure tech giants over ESG issues
"All that glitter is not gold, often have you heard that told." Tech giants have long been deemed ESG good-will ambassadors. They usually couple a meaningful value proposition together with a garageland background, which makes the formula extremely appealing to people, especially the young. However, since...
Corporate Governance / 16.12.2019
Apple shareholders to discuss human rights policies at 2020 annual meeting
Next year at Apple’ s annual meeting, shareholders will vote a non-binding resolution for transparency over human rights policies. On 9 September 2019, SumOfUs, a consumer advocacy group, submitted the proposal claiming that the US tech company had limited individual freedom of expression kowtowing to China's will, which...