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...playing games and social games - are increasingly generating impressive revenues from tiny transactions. Most role-playing games, or RPGs, originally relied primarily on subscriptions for income. The enormously popular World of Warcraft series remains subscription-based. But the trend is the free-to-play, or "freemium," model. Under this system, gamers can play as long as they want at no cost, but they usually find the games are more entertaining when they pay small fees to outfit their characters with virtual weapons, useful tools and other accessories. The popular virtual world Second Life garners some 75% of its revenue from...
...read to succeed, however, media companies will need a trustworthy, easy-to-use payment platform. Common online payment methods like credit cards aren't feasible because processing fees can exceed the value of such tiny transactions. In the gaming world, the typical micropayment system allows consumers to transfer money (usually via credit or debit cards) into electronic accounts, or e-wallets, where hard cash is converted into digital currency for online purchases. There are already several companies providing micropayment services to gaming websites; Santa Clara, Calif. - based PlaySpan offers its service in 80 countries. Micropayments are also migrating to mobile...
...election as a referendum on Ahmadinejad, so they were surprised," the student says. "But then they also said they weren't surprised, and that was part of their cynicism. Whenever something fraudulent comes up, they're outraged but [are] also accepting that this is part of the system...
...released in English. "Rape is a signal of a society that is sick to the core," Zevenbergen says. He points to South Africa's long history of migrant labor, in which men left home to work in the mines, as having broken apart generations of families. This system set the stage, he says, "for an epidemic of young men who, in the absence of positive male role models, are now consumed by a sense of anger and entitlement...
...finally start to move, slowly, feet shuffling northwards toward Ferdowsi Square several kilometers away. People debate what to do next, should we go to Friday Prayers and let them know that we respect and accept our Rahbar, our Supreme Leader, this nezam ("system") and Revolution? Or do we stay away? Is it better to not antagonize a crowd that will no doubt be hot. There are reports and rumors that the basij will be out in full force, that the Supreme Leader will speak and no doubt cast his final verdict on the elections. It is ultimately decided...