American Express

 

American Express Company (NYSE: AXP), sometimes known as "AmEx" or "Amex", is a diversified global financial services company headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1850, it is one of the 30 components of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The company is best known for its credit card, charge card, and traveler's cheque businesses. 

 

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Groupon Takes Aim At PayPal With Payment Service

By IBTimes

Groupon Inc. is testing a payment service that will allow merchants to accept credit cards using its infrastructure, media reports said, pushing the coupon company into a market space already occupied by PayPal and Square. (5:35 pm)

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China's WTO suit hits back at U.S. duties

By Reuters

China launched a complaint at the World Trade Organization on Friday against U.S. import duties on 22 Chinese products that the United States says are unfairly priced or subsidized, including solar panels, wind towers and steel products. (May 25)

MORE TOPICS: CHINA, WTO, SETTLEMENT

U.S. Secret Service Prostitute Scandal
Prostitute Linked with Craig Thomson Worked as a Horse Strapper in NSW

By IBTimes AU

The sex trade worker who claimed to have embattled MP Craig Thomson as her client is real, not an imaginary person created to embarrass the legislator. The Daily Telegraph provided more details of the former prostitute whose tell-all interview with C... (May 24)

MORE TOPICS: AUSTRALIA, JULIA GILLARD, TONY ABBOTT

Justin Bieber Selena Gomez Break Up Rumors
Did Selena Gomez And Justin Bieber Break Up? Rumors Get Debunked

By IBTimes

The teenybopper world was sent into a tizzy when rumor spread that Selena Gomez and her pop star boyfriend Justin Bieber had broken up. Fortunately, those teenyboppers can rest easy. Rumors regarding a break up have been debunked. (May 23)

MORE TOPICS: IPHONE, BILLBOARD, JUSTIN BIEBER

Wall Street up on banks, housing data

By Reuters

Stocks rose on Tuesday, led by financial and housing shares, after home resales rose in April to their highest annual rate in nearly two years in another sign that the housing market may be on the road to recovery. (May 22)

MORE TOPICS: DOW JONES, BANK OF AMERICA, SOCIAL NETWORKS, FACEBOOK, JAPAN, FORECLOSURES

Zynga launches prepaid debit card with American Express

By Reuters

Zynga Inc., the social games publisher, has reached a partnership agreement with American Express to issue a prepaid debit card that could be used to redeem virtual credits, the two companies said. (May 22)

Social Media and Customer Service, What Retailers Must Do for More Business

By Webimax

Social media opens up a world of opportunity for businesses in terms of connecting with their publics, furthering their brand, and now engaging to resolve customer service issues. Recent research suggests that businesses have a real opportunity for m... (May 18)

MORE TOPICS: MANAGEMENT

Gupta trial could feature big corporate stars

By Reuters UK

Lloyd Blankfein, Warren Buffett and other well-known chieftains of corporate America might be called to testify at the insider trading trial starting on Monday of former Goldman Sachs Group Inc <GS.N> and Procter & Gamble Co <PG.N> director Rajat Gupta. (May 17)

MORE TOPICS: RAJ RAJARATNAM, GOLDMAN SACHS, WARREN BUFFETT, LLOYD BLANKFEIN, COURT, NEW YORK

Mary Kennedy Dead
Mary Kennedy Found Dead In Apparent Suicide, Reportedly ‘Depressed And Despondent’ Before Death [PHOTOS]

By IBTimes

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s estranged wife, Mary Kennedy, was found dead in her Mount Kisco, N.Y., home on in an apparent suicide by hanging, ABC News reported. The 52-year-old's body was found on Wednesday afternoon. RadarOnline. (May 16)

MORE TOPICS: NEW YORK, ALLERGY, ASTHMA, LAWYER

JP Morgan Chase
JPMorgan Chase Rolls Out Prepaid Card To Recoup Lost Fees

By IBTimes

JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM), the largest and most profitable U.S. bank, will launch a reloadable prepaid card in its 5,541 branches this summer, aiming to attract new customers and recoup fees it has lost under recent regulatory changes. (May 09)

MORE TOPICS: BANK OF AMERICA, JPMORGAN CHASE, U.S. BANCORP, NYSE, FINANCIAL REFORM, NEW YORK

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