By Ishbel Macleod

The White House has criticised Samsung for promoting a selfie of Boston Red Sox player David Ortiz with Barack Obama.

Ortiz took the photo on his Samsung Note 3, tweeting “”What an honor! Thanks for the #selfie @BarackObama”, while handing over a personalised Red Sox jersey to the US President, with the image since being shared over 40,000 times.

What an honor! Thanks for the #selfie, @BarackObama pic.twitter.com/y5Ww74sEID

— David Ortiz (@davidortiz) April 1, 2014

However, after the Sports Business Journal reported that Otriz had signed a deal with Samsung, a White House spokesperson said: “”Without getting into Read full story ›

Source: The Drum