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Gold Farmers Make Up 85 Percent of 3 Billion Third Party Gaming Services Market

A new report coming from the InfoDev division of The World Bank Group estimates that so called “gold farmers” that operate mainly out of Asia and extract in-game currency in the most popular MMOs in order to sell to mainstream players, make up no less than 85 percent of the third party gaming services mar...

12 April 2011
09:51 GMT

Google Launches Public Data Explorer Tool in Labs

Google sure likes data and numbers and, to share the love with everyone, it launched a brand-new tool in Labs, Google Public Data Explorer, which provides a way of visualizing the various data sets the search engine has been incorporating. The tool adds even more data sources to the ones Google had already been using...

9 March 2010
04:50 GMT

Google Adds World Bank Data to Its Search Results

Google just announced the addition of a wealth of new data coming straight from the World Bank. The data covers all sorts of statistics and numbers related to geopolitical information, things like Internet users in the US over time or GDP growth of almost any country in the world. The data is presented in new OneBox...

12 November 2009
04:17 GMT

Water Funding for Africa Is Critical

Millions of people in Africa do not currently have access to fresh water sources, or even safe-to-drink water sources, for that matter. And, as if this were not enough, they are also at risk of losing the only thing that gives them a drop of water to drink, which is several billions of dollars of international fundin...

27 November 2008
06:02 GMT

World Bank Denies the Compromise of Employee Records

FOX News reports that the network of the World Bank Group suffered several security breaches in the past year and a half, but a World Bank spokesman dismissed the story. According to a leaked memo, a serious security breach occurred in July and resulted in at least 18 servers being compromised.The World Bank Group (W...

13 October 2008
10:11 GMT


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