Business & Economy
Banks Are Becoming Obsolete in China—Could the U.S. Be Next?
Aug 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.2019 Southern California Journalism Award: Third Place, Consumer News or Feature
Why North Carolina’s New Anti-LGBT Law Is a Trojan Horse
Apr 6, 2016 It’s not just bathrooms. Lawmakers also took away the right to sue under state law for all kinds of employment discrimination.
What We Know (and Don’t Know) About This Year’s Bilderberg Meeting
Jun 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?
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Dec 13, 2013
The Author Who Hates Public Libraries
Feb 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Best-selling children's book writer Terry Deary claims the concept of providing the "impoverished access to books" is outdated and irrelevant; despite hopes that the next pope will be less homophobic than the last, the likely candidate supports "Kill the Gays" laws; meanwhile, PayPal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.
Progress Report: PayPal Founder’s College Dropouts
Aug 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.WikiLeaks Has a New Commercial
Jun 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).
BofA Cuts Off WikiLeaks
Dec 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.
The WikiLeaks Hacker War Rages On
Dec 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