Jim Hightower / OtherWordsJun 25, 2019
Ordinary workers now have to work centuries—or even millennia—to make what their CEOs make in a year. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Ellen Brown / TruthdigAug 22, 2018
Big banks on this side of the Pacific are watching with trepidation, as developments in China’s mobile system could indicate that significant shifts will happen in the U.S. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigApr 6, 2016
It’s not just bathrooms. Lawmakers also took away the right to sue under state law for all kinds of employment discrimination. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )
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Roisin Davis / TruthdigJun 11, 2015
What could possibly be sinister about leaders of the world's most powerful companies and countries meeting in closed sessions on an Austrian mountaintop to discuss global strategy? Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigFeb 15, 2013
Best-selling children's book writer Terry Deary claims the concept of providing the "impoverished access to books" is outdated and irrelevant; despite hopes that the next pope will be less homophobic than the last, the likely candidate supports "Kill the Gays" laws; meanwhile, PayPal and Lenovo aim to finish off passwords in order to move on to more secure measures. These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigAug 10, 2012
Facebook investor and PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel gave 24 young would-be entrepreneurs a two-year $100,000 grant each to drop out of college and pursue the business plans of their dreams. One year on, financial returns are in short supply. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJun 28, 2011
The biggest threat to WikiLeaks isn't the house arrest of Julian Assange or the militaries of frustrated world governments -- it's the financial blockade by PayPal, Bank of America, Visa and other institutions that has cut off $15 million in donations (by WikiLeaks' estimate). Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigDec 19, 2010
The digital war of position between WikLeaks and those who have something to hide got a bit more barbed as Bank of America, a likely target in the next WikiLeaks documents drama, announced it will refuse to process payments to the website. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigDec 10, 2010
They've successfully targeted MasterCard's and Visa's websites, but the coalition of hack-savvy cyber-protesters taking the name Anonymous apparently missed their mark when it came to tripping up monster e-retailer Amazon on Thursday. Updated with video Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigDec 9, 2010
A group of hackers organized under the familiar moniker of Anonymous (remember those anti-Scientology demonstrations?) has registered its collective disapproval of MasterCard and the Swedish prosecution authority for participating in the censure of WikiLeaks and founder Julian Assange by, fittingly, compromising the functionality of their websites. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigApr 17, 2006
PayPal will now allow users to buy goods and exchange money using their cell phones.
Sweet! It's been getting far too hard to blow money on impulse items in recent years. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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