Silicon Valley Start Up Leave, PayPal Bank and Renewable Energy

‘The Bay Area is broken:’ Why local startups are hiring outside Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley may be the world’s tech paradise, but it’s a hiring nightmare for many local startups now forced to venture from Portland to Boise in search of talent.

PayPal is starting to offer more traditional banking services like debit cards and depositing checks

The new services are meant for customers who don’t have traditional bank accounts.

For every $1 the US put into adding renewable energy last year, China put in $3

 Last year nearly half of the world’s new renewable energy investment of $279.8 billion (pdf, p.11) came from China.

Here’s why tech companies abuse our data: because we let them

The rise to surveillance capitalism – the extraction and monetisation of our data – and the creeping use of such data to “scientifically” manage most facets of our lives, in order to efficiently deliver cheap bliss and convenience.

The Disappeared – Foreign Policy

China’s global kidnapping campaign has gone on for years. It may now be reaching inside U.S. borders.