“Relegating legitimate news publishers and businesses is a lose-lose-lose,” Shapiro said. “Citizens will be less informed and involved in public affairs and their local economies. Publishers and businesses that invested significant resources in developing their social media presences have no recourse.”.
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Elijah Douresseau is a graduate from the Colorado College, class of 2013, where he majored in English, in the Creative Writing track. He has written for several multimedia projects but hangs his hat on the long literary traditions of prose, and comic books. He currently co-hosts a monthly podcast and
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A new digital video game distribution service called Robot Cache is trying to reinvent the way PC games are published and purchased online, by allowing games to be resold digitally and letting developers and publishers keep 95 percent of a game's profits.
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Last year the NMPA issued a statement announcing that talks were underway for Facebook to create a copyright infringement system and licensing music from publishers and artists in a manner similar to how Spotify and YouTube do. So it's likely that licensing music is how Facebook will acquire the
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Publishers Weekly Points Us to 12 Female Spanish-Language Writers & Poets. By Harriet Staff. Rosario Castellanos. Author and professor Cristina Rivera Garza suggests 12 female Spanish-language writers who “defy easy classification” and “all deserve a place in your reading list.” Among them, poet
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But Robot Cache isn't pleased with the lack of flexibility it gives to PC gamers, nor with the revenue given to developers and publishers. Valve takes 30% of each title sold, where Robot Cache promises to funnel “up to” 95% (the criteria upon which isn't clear at press time) to developers and publishers.
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Last week, Mark Zuckerberg announced a major revamp of Facebook's News Feed algorithm to prioritize content shared by friends and family, and demote branded posts from publishers and businesses. It seems that after pushing Facebook as a source of trending news, Dr. Zuckenstein is horrified by
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Facebook's latest algorithm change may not be as detrimental to publishers and companies as everybody thinks. Facebook's old NewsFeed algorithm, which was set in place in spring 2016, highlighted content and conversations among family and friends. However, this new tweak will place value on
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“The blockchain is the most secure technology that we know of for insuring there are not duplicate copies of items and that faith is one of the key factors to giving the publishers confidence in trusting a service that allows for a resale of a game,” a Robot Cache rep explained. “In addition, it allows for a
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Fargo's new company Robot Cache will create a digital PC games platform, just like Valve's Steam digital distribution service, but it will give game publishers and developers about 95 percent of the proceeds from game sales, rather than just 70 percent as happens on other platforms like Steam.
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Star Wars Droid Inventor Kit was in short supply during December due to the high demand. The toy was included on TTPM's “Most Wanted Toys Holiday 2017” list, and it also won top awards from Heather's Pick, Toy Insider, and the Oppenheim Toy Portfolio. It was also one of the best sellers in Walmart
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