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The problem with most daily deal sites is that the bargains you're offered aren't necessarily the ones you want. That's where Amazon thinks it can gain an advantage, by leveraging its signature product recommendation technology.

The best gas cards combine generous rebates and industry-standard interest rates. In our ongoing series examining the best and worst credit card offers out there, we ask: Does American Express' Blue Cash Preferred card measure up?

The Justice Department filed an antitrust lawsuit against American Express Monday, alleging that the financial institution has been engaging in anticompetitive practices. Justice also said it reached a proposed settlement with Visa and MasterCard over similar charges.

When the economy hit the skids and credit card customers started defaulting in droves, the issuing banks started writing down big losses. One financial company that was spared the worst of the economic fallout was American Express. As this article from the Wall Street Journal points out, AmEx has...

Increased consumer spending helped boost second quarter earnings for credit card giant American Express Thursday, which reported a $1 billion profit, nearly tripling the $337 million it reported for the a year ago quarter.

American Express' unimpeachable new rewards program, which everyone will likely approve of, is a piece of good news for an industry that has gotten a lot of negative attention recently. There's plenty not to like about credit cards, so when we hear about a card company such as American Express...

Affluent Americans are starting to spend more and pay back their debt on time. At least, that is what American Express's fourth-quarter results seem to indicate. The financial services giant's net income soared 198%.

Remember Steve Case? He's the guy that used to send you diskettes in the mail to get you to sign up for America Online so you could dial-up to the Internet. Then, in January 2000, he sold AOL to Time Warner (TWX) -- ultimate parent of DailyFinance -- in a $166 billion deal. On Dec. 9, Case's...

On Wednesday morning, during Time Warner (TWX)'s third-quarter earnings conference call, chairman Jeff Bewkes said, "We'll continue to take a look at non-strategic and less profitable titles." Apparently, one of those non-strategic titles is Fortune Small Business. A Time Inc. spokesman confirms...

David Irving is not a man with whom many of us would want to be associated. The British-born historian has made a career peddling books and speeches claiming that the Holocaust and Adolph Hilter's realm of genocide are fabrications. He's run afoul of strict laws in Austria forbidding statements of...