Two years ago, Jeffrey Hyman set out to make a fun social game. It's a bigger deal than it sounds. Most Facebook games of the resource gathering, base-building variety don't make their money from fun: actually, it's quite the opposite. They might draw you in with an idea of fun: usually, the first half-hour or ...

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I?m not sure what to make of BioWare co-founder Dr. Ray Muzyka?s apology to Mass Effect fans for the mass disappointment surrounding the finale of the third game. The angry fan response was ?painful? to hear, Muzyka writes. ?Our first instinct is to defend our work and point to the high ratings offered by critics ...

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The fiscal plan proposed yesterday by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) would profoundly change the way seniors and younger adults with disabilities receive health care and personal assistance. For many programs, it would reduce funding from today's levels even though the population of those over 65 will double by mid-century. In many ways, ...

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Silicon Labs shares are getting a boost Wednesday from UBS analyst Steve Eliscu, who lifted his rating on the chip maker?s shares to Buy from Neutral, with a new target of $50, up from $48. The analyst notes that the upgrade follows a discussion with incoming CEO Tyson Tuttle, who takes over the top job ...

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President Obama has been talking loudly about cracking down on unfair Chinese trade practices. Mitt Romney is even louder about getting tough on Chinese trade manipulation. The U.S. Department of Commerce does not agree.

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A recent research article in Science brings home one of the more disturbing aspects of adaptive evolution: spontaneous abortion as a survival mechanism among primates. Field studies by Jacinta C. Beehner of University of Michigan, and her team, revealed that female geladas, (Theropithecus gelada), a species of Old World Monkey found in Ethiopia, will terminate ...

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Before Mark Shaver became Chief Information officer for , a $4.5 billion leader in high-productivity mining solutions, he literally spent 20 years underground. As a service engineer, Shaver demonstrated how to operate the Joy equipment product line, around the clock, amidst common hazards in coal mining such as gas explosions, fire, or roof collapse. "The ...

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In Canada, there is outrage as former junior hockey coach Graham James was sentenced to only two years in prison for sexually assaulting former NHL star Theo Fleury and his cousin, Todd Holt, who both played for James in the 1980s and 1990s. Fleury and Holt called the sentencing, which followed James? December 2011 guilty ...

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That's right, I said ?Win an A in Tax .? My popular contest for law and paralegal students is back. So let's get right to the good stuff? Here?s how it works: simply write a guest post to be posted on taxgirl for Forbes.com about any hot tax policy issue. And I don't mean a ...

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Guest post written by Irv Rothman Irv Rothman is CEO of HP Financial Services. Cloud computing may be the most disruptive technology for businesses since the Internet. Cloud doesn't just optimize IT departments, it has the power to change how a business operates. The transformative power of cloud computing, however, is not easy to understand ...

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