- Big business is big time tax avoider: Airbnb is the latest to pay as little tax as possible
Yet another story of a big business doing good business but paying very less taxes. We shouldn't be surprised to hear te latest news, this time, about Airbnb paying less than £200,000 in UK corporation tax last year desp…
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- All modern industrial supply chains rely on labor exploitation to succeed
Smartphones, iPhones, jeans...and now laptops. A newspaper writes about a labor watchdog saying that the world’s biggest laptop brands, HP and Acer among them, relying on Chinese student labourers as young as 16 to work …
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- iPhone financials: Apple's margin on each iPhone sold is around 55%
Apple sells an iPhone for around $650. A report says Apple's cost of Goods sold (COGS) is $293. Of this COGS, the bill of materials (e.g. touchscreen cost) for an iPhone is $200. That means Apple spends around $90 on man…
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- Our Google and Microsoft Government
First, Microsoft established its bases in governments around the world, bribing them to use its bloated and expensive office and server applications. Now, in the online cloud computing age, you got Google cornering alm…
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- Tatas using Tata Nano to gouge customers
In absence of proper government regulations of how companies lure money from consumers, especially big businesses, it is not suprising that Tata Motors is having a free run in selling the Nano.
The application forms …
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