Activision’s new ‘Call of Duty’ game rakes in $550 million in three days

(Reuters) – Videogame maker Activision Blizzard Inc said “Call of Duty: Black Ops III” generated more than $550 million in global sales in the first three days after its Friday release, setting the tone for the crucial holiday quarter.

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Missouri campus police hold suspect for threats to shoot blacks

(Reuters) – A suspect was in custody on Wednesday for making online threats to shoot black students at the University of Missouri following racial protests that prompted the school's president and chancellor to step down this week, campus police said. The announcement followed a post on the social media app Yik Yak on Tuesday, tagged for the college town Columbia. The posting read: “I'm going to stand my ground tomorrow and shoot every black person I see.” In a campus-wide alert early on Wednesday police said they had apprehended the suspect who posted threats on Yik Yak and other social media.

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Welcome to Facebook, Taiwan poll candidate tells Chinese as posts flood in

Tens of thousands of posts apparently from China have flooded Taiwan presidential election front runner Tsai Ing-wen's Facebook account, demanding that the island return to China – and her response on Wednesday was to welcome mainland interest in democracy. The surge in posts, nearing 70,000 by Wednesday, is all the more astonishing because Facebook is generally blocked in Communist Party-ruled China, although there are ways of getting around firewalls.

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U.S. campuses hold race protests after Missouri resignations

Students will hold events to highlight racial issues at a handful of U.S. college campuses this week, spurred by the impact of protests at the University of Missouri that culminated in the resignation of the school's president and chancellor. Peaceful marches or walkouts have been held, or are planned, at Yale University, Ithaca College and Smith College, though none has yet reached the intensity of demonstrations at Missouri, where hundreds of students and teachers protested what they saw as soft handling of reports of racial abuse on campus

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