PayPal has suspended Wikileak's Donation Account following a breach of contract. On Saturday, December 4, 2010, PayPal issued a statement at the official PayPal blog which read: "PayPal has permanently restricted the account used by WikiLeaks due to a violation of the PayPal Acceptable Use Policy,...
Paypal has launched Student Accounts which is a great tool for parents to help their kids manage money. They can be linked from a parent's account and instead of linking to a bank account all the money is able to be controlled by the Parent Account. It comes with a debit card and could be a great...
The support for the recently apprehended Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, following his surrender in a UK court on Tuesday, is pouring across the Internet in unusual form: hackers. A surge of "hactivists" have toppled various major websites including: Mastercard, Visa, and PayPal, with sights on...
The Internet has definitely revolutionized the way we live our lives, and online shopping is perhaps one of the most popular activities today. With the time that the average person spends on the Internet, this is quite understandable. Of course, there is the convenience of merely clicking and...
No one needs to be told how bad this economy is. Every week it seems thousands more are losing their jobs while countless more are having to scale back their rates or the hours that they work. Incomes everywhere are being choked, causing families to cut corners and miss bills. This has led many...
Though Nigerian email scams may be the butt of late-night comedian jokes, online fraud is still alive and well. Scams involving individuals, such as identity theft and financial scams, cost their victims nearly 240 million in 2007 over four times as much as they did in 2004. Sadly, the numbers...
A merger refers to the situation when two companies are absorbed into a single entity. Stockholders are allowed to keep equal interest in the new company—unlike in acquisitions, where one of the companies buys into the second company’s stock to have greater control. Only a fraction of merger...
Apple followed suit behind Amazon, PayPal, Visa, and other companies by severing business relations with the whistleblowing organization Wikileaks. Last week, Apple decided to pull any and all unofficial Wikileaks applications from its iPhone and iPod stores. Recent media reports indicated that...
No matter what the economic situation, someone somewhere, eyes bright with potential, is looking to start a new business. Funds are often the biggest hurdle to what could otherwise be a lucrative opportunity. Here are some ways - traditional and/ or creative - to raise money for your startup...
Dutch authorities arrested a 16 year old boy at his residence in The Hague late Wednesday night for his suspected involvement in hacking MasterCard and Visa websites in support of the WikiLeaks organization. Authorities also removed computers and data storage devices from the teen's home to use...
