Facebook Ad Scammer Fined $100K for Ruining Our Newsfeeds [Facebook]

Adscend Media is the jerk ad agency responsible for many of the "OMG LOL THIS VIDEO IS SO GOOD JUSTIN BEIBER" links on Facebook that, when clicked, spam the same crap link to your friends. It has just been fined $100,000 by a Washington court for spamming and scamming Facebook users. More »

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MasterCard introduces PayPass Wallet Services, Online and API at CTIA 2012

MasterCard's PayPass is certainly one of the bigger players in the contactless payment scene. But, simply putting a few thousand branded payment terminals in stores across the nation isn't enough. The next step is expanding that empire, not only in terms of locations and handsets, but by turning the phone into just an accessory in a larger ecosystem. PayPass Wallet Services is a new umbrella product that includes an online payment system, a branded service and an API that allows developers to integrate PayPass into their own proprietary offerings. Simply put, PayPass is no longer a product, but a platform. The service remembers not only credit cards, but shipping addresses and other identifying info that streamlines the shopping process, while the API means that others can build value added offerings around PayPass. There's even a dedicated Android app.

The company is hoping to have the system ready for a broad roll out by the third quarter of the year. When that time comes, a pile of partners have pledged to support it in various ways. The names on that list should ring at least a few bells: Intel, Barnes & Noble, Newegg, MLB and American Airlines. It all seems pretty impressive (though, we'll reserve judgement till we get to try it out). Your move, Google.

Zachary Lutz contributed to this report

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Leon Purvis Asks Justin Bieber to Prom, Tells THG Why

Time is running out for Leon Purvis.

The high school sophomore has made a YouTube video - viewed by over 143,000 people at last check - in which he invites Justin Bieber to his upcoming prom. But the event takes place on June 2 and Leon is yet to hear from the singing superstar.

Justin Bieber Prom Invitation

"I want to take Justin Bieber to my 2012 prom with me as a bro because Justin Bieber deserves to have a normal night to be a normal teen at prom," Purvis tells The Hollywood Gossip in an exclusive interview.

Describing the artist as "raw and real," Purvis says he's followed him since his "YouTube days," long before he took over the music scene.

Leon says in the above video that he planned to ask a girl to also be his date. How did that turn out?

"I walk over to her I say 'Hey I got a couple of my friends to help me spell out PROM? P is for promise you will have a good time. R is for a night you will always remember. O is for a occasion of a life time. M is for memories we will share....'"

Alas, the young lady in question told Purvis she would think about it; he left on a two-week school-sponsored trip; and returned to discover she had agreed to go with someone else. The nerve!

So what can Beliebers do to help get through to Justin? Just spread the word, he says. Spread it to EVERYONE you know.

"That would mean the world to me if they did that," he tells THG.

Come on, Selena Gomez, you can be without your man for one evening, right?

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Future Dubai Hotel Will Sit 21 Stories Underwater [Video]

Imagine waking up in a hotel room, and instead of getting a view of a bustling city, or beach, or maybe a parking lot, you are greeted by underwater wildlife 200 feet below the surface. And while it sounds like something out of a early 20th-century sci-fi novel, one group is trying to make this a reality in Dubai. More »

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Woman Found Cocaine Hidden Inside Her Tampon [WTFriday]

In a pleasant surprise (or scary discovery, depending on your perspective), Cindy Davidson found something weird about the tampons she recently bought: they were laced with cocaine. Specifically, a bunch of cocaine was put in the tampon's applicator so it could be smuggled around. More »

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MMA Marketplace: Jim Miller?s UFC on Fox 3 walkout shirt that will benefit nephew?s foundation

When Jim Miller walks out to fight Nate Diaz on UFC on Fox 3 on Saturday, he will be wearing this shirt that proclaims "My Fight Matters."

In addition to fighting Diaz for a shot at the UFC lightweight belt, Miller's family has another fight that matters more than what will happen in the Octagon. His nephew Danny, the son of fighter Dan Miller, has polycystic kidney disease. To help with that fight, Tapout is donating $10 from every shirt sold to the Daniel James Miller Foundation, which is working to pay the costs of a kidney transplant for Danny and help other children with PKD.

Pick up the shirt for $29.95 here.

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