Digital Wallet Battle Heats Up As Visa And MasterCard Enter The Game | TechCrunch

Digital Wallet Battle Heats Up As Visa And MasterCard Enter The Game | TechCrunch: "This week, two of the major players in the credit card industry, Visa and MasterCard launched their online digital wallet services. Known as V.me (Visa’s) and PayPass Wallet Services (MasterCard), both are very similar initiatives which see the companies clamoring to become the credit card of choice for digital transactions, the way they fight today to be the credit card for all the other transactions taking place out there in the real world.

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Five Ways Native Monetization Is Changing Silicon Valley | TechCrunch

Five Ways Native Monetization Is Changing Silicon Valley | TechCrunch: "With a $100 billion IPO pending, it’s with confident defiance that Facebook has thumbed its nose at traditional web advertising models. On Facebook, despite their $5 billion 2012 forecasted ad revenue, you’ll see no prerolls, no rich media ads, no “punch the monkeys,” and no interruption. Facebook is leading the charge for a new generation of media companies who are building their businesses on “native” advertising models, a fundamental shift away from the traditional interruptive ad models that users have learned to ignore. Facebook’s commitment to native monetization signals significant change to come.

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Pornterest Vs. Pornstagram Vs. Tumblr’s #NSFW | TechCrunch

Pornterest Vs. Pornstagram Vs. Tumblr’s #NSFW | TechCrunch: "Wow, Pinterest’s porn section is fairly tame. I was just curious about the type of not-so-mommy-friendly content that might be popping up on what’s now the third-most popular social network after Facebook and Twitter. (Also I’m bored). After all, Tumblr houses, like, a lot of porn.

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Marc Andreessen Visits Peter Thiel’s Stanford Class To Talk Startups, How He Invests & The Future | TechCrunch

Marc Andreessen Visits Peter Thiel’s Stanford Class To Talk Startups, How He Invests & The Future | TechCrunch: "It wasn’t so long ago that Peter Thiel began publicly pushing the somewhat controversial idea that higher education is in a bubble, or launching an initiative to help smart young people “stop out of school.”

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Help! There’s A Patent On My Idea! What Now? | TechCrunch

Help! There’s A Patent On My Idea! What Now? | TechCrunch: "One of the most frequent questions I get asked goes something like this: “I have a really great idea, but (name of big company or university) has a patent on that. What do I do?” With over 8,000,000 patents issued to date and thousands of new patents issued weekly, chances are good that patents have been issued that are relevant to your business or idea. Knowingly infringing an active patent can lead to disastrous consequences for your business. So what do you do?

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PayPal Gets Its Own Share Of The Yahoo Diaspora, Hires JavaScript Icon Douglas Crockford | TechCrunch

PayPal Gets Its Own Share Of The Yahoo Diaspora, Hires JavaScript Icon Douglas Crockford | TechCrunch: "The reorganizing and downsizing at Yahoo — and possibly the executive scandal at the very top of the pyramid — are leading to a wave of talent departures at the company: the latest in that story is that Douglas Crockford, a trailblazing JavaScript guru most recently at Yahoo, has joined eBay’s payment giant PayPal.

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Can’t go to a Tesda training center? You can log on wherever you are | Inquirer Technology

Can’t go to a Tesda training center? You can log on wherever you are | Inquirer Technology: "MANILA, Philippines—If a student can’t go to the training center, the mountain will come to him.
The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (Tesda) will launch on Monday a free online tech-voc training program to reach those who want to take short courses but do not have access to training centers or prefer to take up distance learning.
Tesda Director General Joel Villanueva said the online training program which was pilot-tested in December would bring tech-voc education to the grassroots.
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