UPDATE 1-Mattel Q3 sales beat estimates
The maker of Barbie dolls said third-quarter net sales rose
9 percent to $2.0 billion.Analysts, on average, were expecting sales of $1.97 billion,
according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
A court put out an arrest warrant late on Wednesday for Mejia, who led a military coup against Rios Montt and served as president between 1983 and early 1986.Police raided four homes in the capital Guatemala City but could not find Mejia, prompting the Attorney General’s office to announce that it had declared him a fugitive.The 1960-1996 civil war between government forces and leftist guerrillas left dead or missing nearly a quarter million people, mostly Mayan.A United Nations-backed truth commission after the war found the army had committed hundreds of massacres.Guatemala elects a new president next month.Right-wing candidate and retired general Otto Perez is leading the race to replace leftist President Alvaro Colom, whose administration has started cracking down on suspected war criminals.The prospect of a military man taking the reins again in Guatemala has stirred up memories of the civil war. A poll on Wednesday showed the contest is tightening.
Most of the capital is conditional on parliamentary approval
of a binding agreement with the South Australian state
government. The mine is located in South Australia.BHP has not given a total cost estimate for the project but
analysts have put a $20 billion-$30 billion price tag to fully
develop Olympic Dam over two to three decades.
Facebook said that the mobile versions of its website will now offer tighter integration with third-party social games and applications. Those games, such as Zynga’s Farmville, are extremely popular among Facebook users who access the service on their PCs.Similar to the experience on a PC, Facebook users on mobile devices such as Apple’s iPhone and Android smartphones will receive alerts in their newsfeed when their friends play certain games or invite them to play along with them.Facebook’s mobile service will also offer bookmarks within the website of a user’s favorite games, for quick access.Many of those games offer users the ability to purchase virtual goods — such as additional equipment or clothing to enhance the experience in a game — using Facebook’s special so-called Credits currency. Facebook takes a 30 percent cut of the revenue from those transactions.The company said it would require third-party app developers to support Credits in the mobile versions of their games that interact with Facebook.The rule only applies to games aimed at users of the Facebook website developed using HTML5 technology and accessed through a standard browser.Facebook said the specialized iPhone app version of its service would not support its Credits currency, in accordance with Apple’s terms of service.The new version of Facebook for Apple’s popular iPad tablet has been rumored on industry blogs for months. Facebook said the iPad app will offer enhanced photo-viewing capabilities and messaging capabilities.
