In fact, one of the century's highest-profile crimes planted the seed for APB Online.
On APB Media Patrol, they'll even find reviews of the latest crime-related books, movies and TV shows.
Within weeks after APB launched late in 1998, the site was already attracting more than 1 million page views daily.
The accounting standard in question, known as APB 23, was criticized in a Sept. 20 Senate hearing chaired by Sen.
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Another round of financing will help APB expand to 90 employees and create about three dozen more programs or content areas.
In general, though, APB Online reflects its founders' mission of providing professional news coverage, public-service information and stuff that's just plain interesting or entertaining.
Down the line, APB Online is considering business-to-business ventures, such as a call-center service that alerts corporate clients about the latest credit card scams.
While many journalists have praised APB Online, others have been critical.
In August, ThaiBev upped its stake in dominant APB holder Fraser and Neave to 29%, a 30% threshold triggers a mandatory offer for the entire company.
"Thai tycoon Charoen has backed down and handed Heineken a free passage to takeover APB, " said Justin Harper from IG Markets in Singapore in a note to clients.
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APB's long-term business plan calls for making money on ads (the site recently sold its first sponsorship), spinoffs and partnerships such as the content deal with the Snap portal site.
In December APB Online also posted files the FBI kept on writer Mike Royko, angering executives at The Chicago Tribune, where the famously acerbic columnist worked until his death in 1997.
As Davidson's partner Mark Sauter points out, APB Online (derived from the classic police acronym "all-points bulletin") may be the world's only news organization with a reporter assigned full-time to the missing persons beat.
Years of development and tons of cash were sunk into APB, but after its summer release, a lack of players caused the entire game to be shuttered in September, a crippling blow to developer Realtime Worlds.
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Rachel Weisz (the scientist who designs Cross's meds) puts on a wig and glasses making her look even more like a nerdy scientist and nobody at JFK airport recognizes her, even though there is an APB for a nerdy scientist out all over the East Coast.
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Visitors can read up-to-the-minute headlines or investigative reports from APBNEWS.com, APB's national news service, download government documents on celebrities, view photos of missing children or wanted criminals, scan a registry of convicted sex offenders or search a tip database with advice on everything from preventing carjacking to strengthening business security.
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