The NHL’s youngest player, Jeff Skinner of the Carolina Hurricanes, has now become the youngest player in league history selected to play on …
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Carolina Hurricanes rookie Jeff Skinner will be playing in the NHL All-Star Game, after all.
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The Triangle will discover this week the dirty little secret of the NHL All-Star Game: What actually happens on the ice is the least important part of the entire weekend.
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Got ,000? No kidding, that’s about what it will cost, per
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Super Bowl XLV.
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A group of heavily armed gunmen opened fire at a soccer match between two local teams in western Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, killing seven people and wounding two others, according to a municipal police spokesman.
From a coming surge of IPOs, private-equity honchos can expect muted gains, reduced debt and hope of finally handing cash back to investors. It’s a far cry from the days of old.
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ST. PAUL, Minn. – Minnesota health officials put a stop to a
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On the first shift, just seconds after the opening faceoff, Tuomo Ruutu of the Carolina Hurricanes straightened the spine of Toronto’s Dion Phaneuf with a big hit behind the Maple Leafs net. Twenty-five seconds later, Phaneuf answered by flattening Ruutu with a savage open-ice hit. Well, OK, game on.
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Well before his MRI results came back, Jay Cutler already had been diagnosed as a quitter. Even if medicine has advanced, writes Paul Daugherty, the stone-age culture in football hasn’t.
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Facebook is about to ruffle some feathers. We’re hearing from one source that the social network is reaching out to game developers to inform them that it is making its own, official Facebook Credits currency mandatory. Our understanding is that it will be the exclusive currency as well.
It’s a move that’s been a long time coming — there has been speculation that Facebook would do this for a year now, spurring plenty of angst in the developer community. But Facebook has taken things slowly.
Despite telling the community that it was still early for the Credits platform and that it was considering various options, Facebook also spent the last year working out deals with the biggest developers — like Zynga, Playdom, Playfish, and CrowdStar — to make sure they were on board with its Credits system. Now that the developers with serious leverage are taken care of, it’s time for everyone else to make the change.
Facebook’s argument is that Credits are good for users and developers alike. There’s a higher barrier to entry if a user has to pull out their wallet to buy a different currency every time they play a new game — using the same currency lowers this bar. It also means there’s less of a lock-in factor, and Facebook can do its part to educate and promote the use of Credits to get everyone used to paying real money for virtual goods.
Of course, Facebook gets something out of it: they take an industry-standard 30% cut whenever users purchase anything with Facebook Credits. That can add up to a lot of money — we’ve heard elsewhere that Zynga is paying Facebook around million a month for its Credits tax.
This is about more than purple cows and gold coins, too — in the long run, Facebook has a strong incentive to maximize the number of users who are signed up for Credits. Right now the vast majority of Credits are spent on gaming, but it’s very likely that Facebook will eventually begin allowing third-party websites to offer a ‘Pay With Facebook’ option, and that may include everything from digital content to physical goods. The more credit cards Facebook has in its system, the more appealing this option will become, and the more publishers and retailers will be willing to pay that 30% fee.
