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Here is an introductory video of Scrum. Video is hosted on Youtube and is 8 min long. Related posts: Scrum Vocabulary   Scrum in Five Minutes - Executive Summary

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MILLENNIALS Text and IM all day long; reach out to friends by posting status or photos on Facebook; use Skype to call a college friend who's getting a masters at Oxford; post to a personal blog; microblog through Twitter "tweets"; email Mom GEN X For friends, use Facebook to send messages, post photos of last weekend's party or write on an old friend's wall; for colleagues, connect through LinkedIn BABY BOOMERS Email or phone old friends and colleagues when there's time THE SILENT GENERATION Send cards and letters, with an occasional email [Received in an email]

Herald Sun reports that Google Australia is considering a plan to take on payments giants such as Visa, Mastercard and B-Pay in the booming online payments market. The move comes as the search giant secured a financial services licence from local regulators. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission recently issued Google Australia with an authority to provide deposit and payments services to local merchants and shoppers. While the licence does not permit Google to provide cash-based payments services to Australian clients, it will enable the group to facilitate digital or online transactions. Web-based commerce is a hotly contested and lucrative market for payments providers and has spawned a raft of new players including E-Bay subsidiary PayPal. The ASIC licence potentially opens a fresh revenue stream for Google which will be able to collect processing and transaction fees for bringing shoppers and merchants together via its websites. Through PayPal, EBay has stolen a ma...