Enterpreneurial-Pearls
This is a guest post written by Reid Hoffman , Ali Rosenthal and James Slavet from Greylock Partners . Credit and debit cards are ubiquitous, but they’re mostly pretty dumb.
The Credit Card Is The New App Platform
(Credit: James Martin/CNET) Google and Microsoft are reportedly neck and neck to get an Infrastructure as a Service cloud computing offering off the ground in the near future. According to tech news site GigaOM , sources say that while Google has been busy building a cloud service that will compete with Amazon's EC2 cloud, Microsoft has also been racing to get its own Infrastructure as a Service platform out.
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