News tagged with american express

Small businesses see mobile payments as chance to lower costs

Urban Bean manager Liz Abene started hunting for a new way to process card payments after the coffee shop's transaction fees skyrocketed. It was costing $60 a month, she said, just to have the credit card equipment on the ...

Technology / Telecom

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

4 personal finance technology trends for 2012

(AP) -- If you're one of the holdouts still paying bills with checks, tracking your accounts with pen and paper or clipping coupons from the newspaper, 2012 could be the year you take the digital plunge.

Technology / Internet

created Dec 23, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Blood-based genomic test better than imaging test for ruling out obstructive coronary artery disease

A blood-based gene expression test was found to be more effective for ruling out obstructive coronary artery disease in stable symptomatic patients than myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI), a common test that ...

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

created Nov 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

US tech firms lead list of best multinational workplaces

US technology companies, led by Microsoft, topped a league table of the world's 25 best multinational workplaces released Thursday by a New York-based human resources consultancy.

Technology / Business

created Oct 28, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Experimental mathematics: Computing power leads to insights

In his 1989 book "The Emperor's New Mind", Roger Penrose commented on the limitations on human knowledge with a striking example: He conjectured that we would most likely never know whether a string of 10 ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Oct 13, 2011 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (19) | comments 11 | with audio podcast

American Express to offer coupons via Facebook

(AP) -- American Express is jumping into the daily deals arena.

Technology / Internet

created Jul 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

American Express checks in with Foursquare

American Express and Foursquare announced a partnership on Thursday to provide discounts to AmEx cardholders who use the location-based service to "check in" from participating shops and restaurants.

Technology / Business

created Jun 23, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

High-fat diet during pregnancy programs child for future diabetes

A high-fat diet during pregnancy may program a woman's baby for future diabetes, even if she herself is not obese or diabetic, says a new University of Illinois study published in the Journal of Physiology.

Medicine & Health / Health

created May 25, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

American Express makes digital wallets

American Express on Monday launched an online financial transactions service that it claims goes beyond what others provide in a market dominated by PayPal.

Technology / Telecom

created Mar 29, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Twitter co-founder launches new venture: Square

Square, a new venture from a co-founder of Twitter, launched Tuesday with a free application that allows anyone to accept credit card payments on a mobile device.

Technology / Software

created May 11, 2010 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Why is late-life depression harder to treat?

Scientists have found an important clue in the quest to understand why people who suffer from depression in later life are harder to treat and keep well in the long term.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created May 04, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Pioneer of online job search starts over again

(AP) -- Bill Warren founded an early online job board in the 1990s, helped kick-start an industry and was president of Monster.com, one of the leading Internet career sites. But these days he's not very happy ...

Technology / Business

created Feb 25, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Epigenetic signals differ across alleles

Researchers from the Institute of Psychiatry (IoP), King's College London, have identified numerous novel regions of the genome where the chemical modifications involved in controlling gene expression are influenced by either ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Feb 12, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Twitter co-founder takes aim at mobile payments

(AP) -- Jack Dorsey revolutionized online socializing by co-founding Twitter in 2006. Now he wants to transform the way people exchange money.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Dec 30, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

American Express takes aim at PayPal with Revolution

With its deal to buy Revolution Money, American Express is taking aim at the growing market for online and alternative payments, in a challenge to recognized leader PayPal, analysts say.

Technology / Internet

created Nov 22, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1