Western Union Telegraph Company | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-01-16

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Union


00:01:02 1 History
00:01:11 1.1 19th century
00:03:58 1.2 20th century
00:11:52 1.3 Involvement in early computer networking
00:14:32 1.4 End of telegrams
00:15:48 1.5 Acquisitions
00:17:44 2 Specific services
00:17:54 2.1 Online
00:18:38 2.2 BidPay
00:19:25 2.3 Western Union Mobile
00:20:29 2.4 Western Union Connect
00:21:11 2.5 Sending and receiving funds
00:22:36 2.6 Transfer fees
00:22:55 2.7 Past services
00:24:05 3 Sponsorship
00:25:37 4 Scam industry and money laundering
00:27:11 4.1 Money laundering and terrorist financing
00:28:28 5 Connection to military intelligence
00:28:56 5.1 Blocked transactions
00:29:43 6 Anti-competitive behavior&#160;
00:31:19 7 See also
00:32:09 8 Alternative providers



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The Western Union Company is an American financial services and communications company. Its headquarters is in Meridian, Colorado, although the postal designation of nearby Englewood is used in its mailing address. Up until it discontinued the service in 2006, Western Union was the best-known U.S. company in the business of exchanging telegrams.Western Union has several divisions, with products such as person-to-person money transfer, money orders, business payments, and commercial services.  They offered standard "Cablegrams", as well as more cheerful products such as Candygrams, Dollygrams, and Melodygrams.
Western Union, as an industrialized monopoly, dominated the telegraph industry in the late 19th century. It was the first communications empire and set a pattern for American-style communications businesses as they are known today.