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Rumors are circulating that another Hip-Hop heavyweight will take the stage tonight with Jay-Z.

You know he'll make the song cry. Rapper Jay-Z will perform live from the South by Southwest (SXSW) 2012 festival on Monday night at the Austin City Limits Live at Moody Theater. A live stream will be available for those not lucky enough to be in Texas this week.

JPMorgan Chase & Co said it had entered into a partnership with AirPlus International, a business travel manager owned by Deutsche Lufthansa AG , to offer expense tracking systems and commercial credit cards to multinational corporations.

PayPal, the online payments arm of eBay Inc, has sparked a furor in the publishing world by asking some e-book distributors to ban books that contain obscene themes including rape, bestiality or incest.

Warren E. Buffett, whose Berkshire Hathaway holding company has made him one of the richest men around, said he’s pleased by new holdings in technology.

Twitter Inc. has officially introduced a service which will permit small businesses to buy and place ads on the online messaging platform.

Pizza Hut is offering their customer a complete proposal package on Valentine's Day, which not only contains food but all other offers that would make the day special for the love-birds.

Records indicate that Republican candidate Rep. Ron Paul, a champion of smaller government, was reimbursed twice for flights between Washington, D.C., and his district in Texas with campaign and taxpayer money.

The controversial SOPA and PIPA bills, which were shelved last week, after an internet-wide protest, accrued tens of millions of dollars in lobbying money; money that, in the end, was all for naught.

Office Depot Inc., the second-largest U.S. office-supply retailer, is testing PayPal's new point-of-sale (POS) system in a few stores, a top executive told Reuters. The news comes a few days after eBay Inc.'s PayPal unit said it had begun testing in-store payments in 51 Home Depot stores.

American Express Co reported a quarterly profit that topped expectations, as cardholders spent more and expense growth slowed.

American Express Co reported a quarterly profit that topped expectations, as cardholders spent more and expense growth slowed.

American Express Company (NYSE: AXP), the biggest credit-card issuer by purchases, is expected to beat Wall Street's consensus profit estimates, with earnings gains driven by stronger consumer spending and a diversified business model. This is sharp change from prior quarters when the company grew profits by dipping deeper into the company's reserve funds that were set aside to cushion against future losses.

The companies expected to see active trade on Thursday are: Microsoft, International Business Machines, Google, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, Intel Corp, eBay, American Express, Intutive Surgical, Southwest Airlines, UnitedHealth Group and Xilinx.

Zooey Deschanel filed for divorce papers from her husband Ben Gibbard. Those papers revealed more than just details of the split. Apparently, Deschanel lives a modest lifestyle for a Hollywood star -- and donates to charity monthly!

Huge U.S. corporations are forming lobbying groups to try to influence what could become the hottest congressional debate over comprehensive tax reform in a generation.

Don't throw your wallet away yet.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg has announced that he spoke with Governor Andrew Cuomo this morning, and that they've come away from their conversation convinced they'd be able to reach an agreement for the outer-borough taxi bill.

Discover Financial Services should be a stock that catches the eyes of traders and investors. Crowned as the top performer this year in the Standard & Poor's 500 Financials Index, the company closed Wednesday's session at $23.82, up about 30 percent since the start of 2011. However, Discover is trading at a lower multiple compared with its peers, Visa, MasterCard and American Express.

It’s not too late to save the U.S. Postal Service, the inventor of e-mail told the International Business Times.

The United States is looking into allegations that the electronic book industry has violated antitrust law, a top Justice Department official said on Wednesday.

Retailers are generally optimistic about their holiday performance so far, although shaky economic conditions could change things quickly, the chief executive officer of American Express Co said on Tuesday.

Steve Case, who guided AOL’s explosive growth, said his Revolution Growth Fund has raised $450 million to be invested in promising East Coast start-ups.

Startup cloud-computing company posts online ad for $10 groupies to promote brand at upcoming convention.

First there was Black Friday, then as e-commerce reached popularity in 2005, Cyber Monday was created. Now there is a new shopping holiday: a grassroots movement known as Small Business Saturday sponsored by American Express to help flailing local merchants and businesses.

Wesley Snipes won't be leaving home with his American Express card anytime soon -- primarily because he's currently sitting in the slammer -- and that's probably a good thing.

Twenty-eight individuals have been charged in two indictments on 172 counts including enterprise corruption, conspiracy, and grand larceny, among other felony charges in a three state credit card theft ring.

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