It would seem pretty strange for Robert De Niro to get out a money clip in Goodfellas and hand over a credit card, but new statistics from the Payments Council show that cash payments are becoming less and less desirable, in comparison with the upward trend of digital transactions.
Here is a graphic comparison of what you pay the government verses how little some of the largest corporations in America pay.
Last week President Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed a historic nuclear arms treaty reducing the number of deployed strategic warheads by 30 percent to 1550 - lower than the ceiling implemented by the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (Start) of 1991.
These days, big business is getting really big. Here is a look at the 10 companies with the biggest current market value—and a comparison of their last 12 months of sales to the 10 countries with the most similar gross domestic products last year.
While iPhoneOS, Symbian and RIM are the most popular mobile operating systems worldwide, other operating systems, such as Android, are also carving out a market share of their own.
The world arms trade is a multi-billion dollar industry with a strong economic impact on its major exporters. This is a look at the biggest international arms suppliers and buyers, and the United States's recent dramatic jump in market share.