Nearly 95 percent of the world’s consumers live outside the United States, but less than 1 percent of American firms do any exporting, a gap that officials at the American Express Grow Global conference on Tuesday encouraged Maryland businesses to ...

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A survey conducted recently by American Express shows that small business owners’ optimism on business prospects and the economy continues to rise. The Small Business Monitor, in its 13th year, reports that 63 percent of the owners maintain a positive ...

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The in-house legal department: Is it a woman's world?

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A former general counsel has found a new calling. Jack Friedman, who worked for telecommunications and financial companies for 30 years, was laid off at the beginning of the recession in 2008. When he couldn’t find another job in the ...

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NEW YORK — Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and American Express are rolling out a prepaid card that they say offers unique services designed to help shoppers manage and control their everyday finances. The two companies said Monday that Bluebird, begun during ...

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WASHINGTON — American Express is paying $112.5 million in refunds and fines to settle regulators’ accusations that it charged unlawful late fees and deceived customers to pressure them to pay off old debts or buy extra credit card services. The ...

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WASHINGTON — An American Express subsidiary is suing a Maryland man who was jailed for months in Aruba in the suspected death of his traveling companion. The subsidiary, AMEX Assurance Company, seeks to void a travel insurance policy that Gary ...

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Thursday night at the Maryland Incubator Company of the Year Awards, keynote speaker and hall of fame inductee Chris Bradenburg from the mobile ad company Millennial Media talked about how he and co-founder Paul Palmieri met at a Starbucks to ...

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NEW YORK — Proposals for Internet addresses ending in “.pizza,” ”.space” and “.auto” are among the nearly 2,000 submitted as part of the largest expansion in the online address system. Apple Inc., Sony Corp. and American Express Co. are among ...

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A company that processes credit card transactions said Monday that as many as 1.5 million card numbers were compromised in a data breach early last month. The CEO of the company, Global Payments Inc., said the matter was “absolutely contained,” ...

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