Amex Joins Flash Sale Space

Send to KindleTweet American Express recently announced a new multi-year e-commerce deal to boost online business and establish ties with Web consumers. Amex plans to commit $100 million, with a focus on early stage e-commerce startups. Amex’s new digital commerce initiative will be run from its new Silicon Valley office, with Harshul Sanghi at the [...]

Apple: A Giant Underdog?

Send to KindleTweet It seems no matter how big Apple grows, it always maintains underdog status. The U.S. government’s supposed antitrust investigations (WSJ) are insanely arbitrary and their regulation of food, media and technology equally random. In recent months, anyone that reads a major metropolitan newspaper would have learned that GMO alfalfa is OK, but Apple [...]

Budget Mobiles: Pantech’s Dual-Keyboard Smartphone

Send to KindleTweet The presence of a touch and a tangible keyboard offers emerging mobile phone makers a leg up when competing with the most popular handset makers–Apple, Research in Motion and Motorola. For over a year, AT&T and South Korea’s third largest mobile phone company, Pantech, have been working to expand the Asian company’s [...]

The Eco Cell

Send to KindleTweet The Dirt: Buying a cell phone is a now an overwhelming process thanks to the dizzying selection of hardware, but if you are really a Scuppie (green yuppie), opt for the Motorola Renew. Green in its mission and its casing, this multi-media mobile offers the usual features, such as picture messaging, Web [...]