{"id":43978,"date":"2009-11-18T09:55:49","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T14:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.wordpress.com\/?p=80279"},"modified":"2009-11-18T09:55:49","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T14:55:49","slug":"amex-to-buy-revolution-money-for-300-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/43978","title":{"rendered":"AmEx to Buy Revolution Money for $300 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='snap_preview'>\n<p>American Express, the company well known for overpriced charge cards, is buying Ted Leonsis and Steve Case&#8217;s Revolution Money for $300 million. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tedstake.com\/2009\/11\/18\/american-express-to-acquire-revolution-money\/\">Leonsis shared<\/a> this information on his blog. Amex wants to use Revolution Money to build a next-generation offering. Revolution Money has some kind of a next-generation payments technology that brings together offline and online worlds; it&#8217;s part of the Revolution group of companies floated by Steve Case. No one I know has either seen it or actually uses it. 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