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...Anybody who has ever powered up a Nintendo knows the addictive pull to finish another scene or gain one more level. "Engagement, reward, leveling up - those are powerful tools," says Alan Gershenfeld, former vice president at the game firm Activision and now president of E-Line Media, a New York City-based developer of social games. "Game designers have it honed to a whole new level...
MICHAEL SCHLACHTER, managing director at a California investment-consulting firm, on banks that are using a government program designed to help them get rid of debt to make enormous profits trading defaulted home loans...
That lack of conclusive data hasn't deterred the nascent neurobics market. Sales are expected to jump from $265 million to up to $5 billion by 2015, according to a May report from market-research firm SharpBrains, which will sponsor the industry's first conference, set to begin Jan. 18. (Watch TIME's video about exercising with a hula hoop...
...because Rothstein funneled millions of his allegedly ill-gotten dollars to pols and parties, especially the state's GOP, often in ways that may have violated campaign-finance laws. (Prosecutors allege, for example, that he laundered political contributions through large bonuses that he paid to members of his law firm, which has since collapsed.) Florida political analyst Sean Foreman of Barry University in Miami doesn't think the scandal will cause much fallout for those, like Crist, who have returned the money in a timely fashion. (Since Rothstein's indictment last month, Crist, who is in a tight race...
...prosecutors won't discuss the terms of his plea deal. But if Rothstein does sing, says Zelden, he's "likely to name more Republicans" than Democrats because Rothstein gave the GOP the lion's share of his political donations - more than $600,000 from Rothstein and his law firm in the past five years. (Florida's Democratic Party got about $200,000.) "Republicans are the ones running the state today," Zelden notes...