Badgeville Targets Loyalty With New Gamification Product

Badgeville Targets Loyalty With New Gamification Product


Badgeville Targets Loyalty With New Gamification Product

Posted: 31 May 2011 11:34 PM PDT

Badgeville has released a new version of its gamification technology that brings gaming mechanics to


North Korea says rejects South offer for summits

Posted: 31 May 2011 11:28 PM PDT

SEOUL (Reuters) - Isolated North Korea rejected on Wednesday an offer by rival South Korea to hold a series of three summits in a bid to defuse tensions on the divided peninsula, state news agency KCNA reported.


Japan PM faces party rebellion; no-confidence vote looms

Posted: 31 May 2011 11:22 PM PDT

TOKYO (Reuters) - Rebels in Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan's party on Wednesday cranked up pressure on the unpopular leader as he struggled with a nuclear crisis, threatening to back an opposition-sponsored no-confidence motion if he refused to step down.


Philippine clan chief sparks gasps as he denies massacre

Posted: 31 May 2011 11:15 PM PDT

MANILA (Reuters) - The head of a southern Philippine political clan sparked courtroom gasps on Wednesday when he denied 57 charges of murder in a November 2009 massacre that shocked a nation accustomed to political violence.


Oil near $103 amid falling dollar, rising stocks (AP)

Posted: 31 May 2011 10:36 PM PDT

File photo shows Shamseddin Hosseini, Iran's Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance, as he leaves a cabinet meeting in Tehran September 29, 2010. Hosseini will AP - Oil prices inched higher to near $103 a barrel Wednesday in Asia as traders mulled whether a weakening dollar could help push crude back to 2 1/2-year highs.



Endeavour's Last Spacedock

Posted: 31 May 2011 10:31 PM PDT

NASA has posted a photograph of the Endeavour's last ever docking in space.


DC Comics Is Rebooting Everything and Going Digital

Posted: 31 May 2011 10:12 PM PDT

You?ve likely already heard the news by now, especially if you?re the kind of person who


Japan's Artisanal Sake Industry Revives After Quake (Time.com)

Posted: 31 May 2011 09:55 PM PDT

Time.com - Since March 11, 'courage and recovery' has been the mantra for Tohoku's sake producers and everyone else whose livelihood was thrown into jeopardy after the quake and nuclear crisis that followed


Mladic's first night in The Hague in isolation (AP)

Posted: 31 May 2011 10:10 PM PDT

A helicopter-escorted convoy of police vehicles with flashing blue lights possibly carrying Ratko Mladic leaves Rotterdam Airport, Netherlands, Tuesday, May 31, 2011. Serbia has extradited Ratko Mladic to the U.N. war crimes tribunal where he will stand trial for genocide, 16 years after he was charged by the court for the killing of 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the worst massacre of civilians in Europe since World War II. (AP Photo/Bas Czerwinski)AP - Ratko Mladic was waking up in an isolation cell in The Hague Wednesday, less than a week after he was captured after 16 years on the run. The Bosnian Serb military commander now awaits trial on genocide charges over the killing of 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the worst massacre of civilians in Europe since World War II.



US condemns killing of Pakistani journalist (AFP)

Posted: 31 May 2011 10:36 PM PDT

Pakistani journalist Syed Saleem Shahzad (left) and Qamar Yousafzai arrive at a local hotel after their release in Quetta in 2006. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday condemned the abduction and murder of Shahzad who had written about alleged links between the Pakistani military and Al-Qaeda.(AFP/File/Banaras Khan)AFP - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton condemned the abduction and murder of a Pakistani journalist who had written about alleged links between the Pakistani military and Al-Qaeda.



Australia expecting massive whale watching season (AFP)

Posted: 31 May 2011 09:04 PM PDT

File photo shows humpback whales (C) off the coast of Sydney. Australia marked the start of its whale-watching season Wednesday with predictions that some 4,000 of the giant animals will be spotted as they make their way along the coast during winter.(AFP/File/Greg Wood)AFP - Australia marked the start of its whale-watching season Wednesday with predictions that some 4,000 of the giant animals will be spotted as they make their way along the coast during winter.



Double Dip in Housing, Could Double Dip Recession Be Next?

Posted: 31 May 2011 09:22 PM PDT

The S&P Case-Shiller Index confirmed a double dip in the US housing market on May 31. Is a doubl


Rick Perry for President?

Posted: 31 May 2011 09:11 PM PDT

Since we?re on the subject of Texas, and since it?s looking??more and more likely that t


Want to Buy a Piece of a Greek Island?

Posted: 31 May 2011 05:21 PM PDT

As part of Greece's privatization plan to raise cash to reduce its mountain of debt, the national government is preparing to sell as much as $42.9 billion of public property.


Pakistani investigative journalist killed

Posted: 31 May 2011 09:08 PM PDT

Reporter who investigated al-Qaeda links to country's military has been found dead days after he went missing.


British author starts Singapore jail term (AFP)

Posted: 31 May 2011 08:49 PM PDT

Alan Shadrake a freelance journalist and author talks to reporters outside the Supreme court in Singapore on May 27, 2011. The 76-year-old British writer who published a book denouncing judicial hangings in Singapore started a prison term on Wednesday for contempt.(AFP/File/Roslan Rahman)AFP - A 76-year-old British writer who published a book denouncing judicial hangings in Singapore started a prison term on Wednesday for contempt.



3D Dead? That's Two-Dimensional Thinking.

Posted: 31 May 2011 09:04 PM PDT

A lot of predictions have been made about the demise of modern 3D filmmaking. The weekend box office


FIFA President Heads for Re-Election

Posted: 31 May 2011 07:58 PM PDT

Joseph "Sepp" Blatter appeared headed for election to a fourth term as president of FIFA as mounting concerns about corruption allegations voiced by corporate sponsors and the complaints of two football associations that called for the vote to be delayed.


South Korea Inflation Soars

Posted: 31 May 2011 11:16 PM PDT

South Korea's core inflation surged to a two-year high while export growth eased, underscoring the challenge policy makers face in ensuring sustainable growth.


Mideast Battles Skype Rebellion

Posted: 31 May 2011 08:49 PM PDT

When dissidents in Egypt were organizing an election-monitoring project last fall, they discussed their plans over Skype, the popular Internet phone service, believing it to be secure. But someone else was listening in—Egypt's security service.