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IEEE Spectrum
June 2012
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Virtual Currency Gets Real Will Facebook Credits and other social scrip challenge government-backed currencies?   |
Search Engine Watch
June 29, 2006
Chris Sherman |
Google Launches Checkout, not the Rumored GBuy Checkout isn't the rumored PayPal killer, but it does offer some compelling features for both merchants and online shoppers alike. |
InternetNews
March 13, 2009
Michelle Megna |
Google Ups Checkout Fees The search giant's online payment system is moving to a tiered fee structure. |
Search Engine Watch
October 2, 2010
Jonathan Allen |
9 Reasons Why it Might Be Time For Marketers to Value Virtual Goods Convergence of web, mobile and TV may create stronger emotional connections between audiences. |
Entrepreneur
November 2005
Jennifer Pellet |
Money Buzz 11/05 Controlling online payments, expensive medical plans and more. |
Knowledge@Wharton
September 24, 2003 |
In Norrath, Tattoine and Rubi-ka, Just What Are Your Legal Rights? Even though virtual worlds are nothing more than code residing in banks of computers, what goes on in them poses challenges to our notions about the nature of property, the legal rights of players in virtual worlds and even the presumed boundary between the real and the imagined worlds. |
The Motley Fool
January 11, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
eBay Doubles Down on PayPal If you've got the PayPal, eBay is willing to trust you a little more. |
Reason
February 2007
Jesse Walker |
Sim Pickings A former chairman of the Joint Economic Committee noted that "there is a concern that the IRS might step forward with regulations that start taxing transactions that occur within virtual economies." |
Entrepreneur
March 2008
Amanda C. Kooser |
Virtual Playground Building a kid-centric online startup? Here's what you should know. |
InternetNews
June 29, 2006
Vangie Beal |
Google Checkout Open, Ready for Business Ending speculation surrounding its online payment system, the search-engine giant today launched Google Checkout. |
The Motley Fool
July 14, 2011
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
SINA's Virtual Reality China's dot-com darling is reportedly ready to roll out virtual currency. |
PC World
January 29, 2007
Julian Dibbel |
Virtual Gold Could Draw Real Taxes Congress is investigating whether the IRS should tax online game loot. |
Wired
April 2006
Chris Suellentrop |
Global Gaming Crackdown How governments from Beijing to the Beltway could shackle your freedom. |
The Motley Fool
October 5, 2006
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Checking Up on Checkout Google may still have a PayPal killer, but it's fitted with a silencer. Inspiring merchants to promote Google Checkout is brilliant. |
PC Magazine
June 28, 2005
David Murphy |
Virtual Currency For the over 800,000 subscribers to Sony Online Entertainment's Everquest II game, life in a virtual world follows a familiar pattern. |
InternetNews
March 16, 2006
David Miller |
Google Eyes Retail Sector Amazon is now offering low-cost online data storage to users, Microsoft wants to be the search site of choice, Yahoo is involved with VoIP services, and Google seems to want to break into retail. |
Information Today
July 14, 2008
Lori Bell |
As the (Virtual) Worlds Turn Google released Lively, a public beta version of its much-anticipated three-dimensional virtual world. |
The Motley Fool
July 1, 2006
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
A Fool Looks Back Transactions played more than a bit part in this week's Wall Street screening: Google checks in with Checkout... Snap goes the IPO tether... |
The Motley Fool
October 13, 2005
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Google Purchases Coming Soon? A subdomain leak hints that Google's payment gateway is almost official. Rolling out an online payment service has been hard unless your name is PayPal. |
The Motley Fool
April 24, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Teaming Up on the Google Goliath Yahoo! and eBay join forces to take on Google's e-payment service. Investors, take note. |
InternetNews
August 20, 2009 |
Facebook Tests Branded Virtual, Real-World Gifts Facebook is expanding its efforts to turn its online Gift Shop into a money-making opportunity through sales of other companies' virtual - and potentially physical - goods. |
Fast Company
July 2009
Michael Fitzgerald |
Boomtown Virtual goods, such as avatars and Facebook gifts, are attracting major brands, celebrities, and venture capital. The money is real. |
U.S. Banker
May 2011
Jeremy Quittner |
Facebook and Google Encroach on Banks' Turf New payment options pose a major business threat, as the giants of the Internet world push their alternatives to cash. |
Entrepreneur
October 2006
Melissa Campanelli |
Plug and Pay Credit cards aren't the only way to pay online these days. |
BusinessWeek
February 25, 2010
Levy & Galante |
Who Wants to Buy a Digital Elephant? Sales of virtual goods are taking off. And it's not just kids who are buying. |
Fast Company
October 19, 2011
Christina Chaey |
Social Gaming Summit Of the 62 million Americans who will log game time on a social network this year, some 10% will open their real-world wallets to buy virtual goods. |
IEEE Spectrum
October 2010
Mark Anderson |
The End of Gold Farming? Real-world laborers make real-world money in virtual worlds. But maybe not for long |
The Motley Fool
July 9, 2008
Anders Bylund |
IBM Moves Into the Virtual World Second Life and IBM just showed that the massive Second Life world can connect to IBM's OpenSim servers. This could be the beginning of open standards that would connect every conceivable virtual reality network to each other. |
The Motley Fool
June 29, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
A Checked-Out Google Checkout Google has released its long-awaited new product that has been grist for rumor mills for quite some time, not to mention frequently dubbed a PayPal-killer in the making. The reality seems a bit less dramatic, and maybe even a bit anticlimactic. |
BusinessWeek
May 1, 2006 |
Virtual Worlds, Virtual Economies An economist talks about how online games can blur the line between fantasy and reality. |
The Motley Fool
August 11, 2005
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
The Wrath of QuanQuan China's leading online game specialist Shanda looks to deliver some extra sizzle in the IM market. The online advertising and self-promotional features of controlling the gateway to virtual communication can be a wonderful thing. For investors, that's one virtual world worth looking into. |
The Motley Fool
July 7, 2006
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
eBay Checks Out Google Google and eBay are flirting with disaster thanks to Google Checkout. |
Bank Technology News
November 2007
Glen Fest |
Cards: Alt-Pays and Cards: Friends...and Foes Research states online alternatives like PayPal, Bill Me Later and Google Checkout are a daunting challenge to the card firms - even when they are on the same page. |
BusinessWeek
June 17, 2010
Joseph Galante |
CrowdFlower's Virtual Pay for Digital Purchases Employment outfit CrowdFlower has a giant on-demand workforce that can choose to use fake compensation to buy fake offerings on social media sites. |
The Motley Fool
February 7, 2006
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Money Matters for Google and eBay eBay gears up for a potential PayPal challenger from Google. Investors, take note. |
InternetNews
November 24, 2006
Michael Hickins |
Get a Life: Enterprises Eye Potential For Second Life Enterprises are dipping their toes in the waters of virtual worlds, but may have to wait to see the benefits. |
The Motley Fool
November 30, 2004
Seth Jayson |
eBay of the Elves A new computer game from Vivendi takes cues from the success of eBay. |
Inc.
February 2007
Michael Fitzgerald |
Does Your Business Need a Second Life? Why are companies like Toyota and Dell and Starwood Hotels getting immersed in Second Life. |
BusinessWeek
February 24, 2011
Douglas MacMillan |
Getting Social Media Games to Play Overseas U.S. designers rely on "localizers" such as Miami's Mentez to make their hits work abroad |
The Motley Fool
April 27, 2006
Tom Taulli |
Microsoft's "Massive" Attack on Google Microsoft is buying Massive -- not necessarily for gaming, but to fight back against Google for the online advertising market. |
InternetNews
June 14, 2007
Nicholas Carlson |
EBay 'Experimenting' With Google Ad Spend eBay shuts down its Google search advertising in the U.S. |
InternetNews
October 12, 2007
Susan Kuchinskas |
Hey IT, Welcome to the Bverse IBM and Linden Labs, creator of Second Life, announced an initiative to create open standards and interoperability allowing people to move their avatars and virtual goods from one world to another. |
InternetNews
September 28, 2007
Mike Elgan |
Don't Believe In Google's 'My World' What we know about the "My World" project is made up from what Google might call a "mashup" of sketchy facts, speculation and wishful thinking. Let's have a look. |
Bank Systems & Technology
August 28, 2009
Maria Bruno-Britz |
Citi Launches Multicurrency Virtual Card With MasterCard Citi Virtual Card Accounts provides corporates with a secure means for making and controlling purchases. |
The Motley Fool
October 16, 2006
Tim Beyers |
IRS to Tax Your Second Life? Congressional economists are beginning to weigh the question of how to tax digital assets amassed in multiplayer online games such as World of Warcraft and Second Life. How can this benefit your portfolio? |
IEEE Spectrum
October 2006 |
Money for Nothing In the book by Julian Dibbell, Play Money: Or, How I Quit My Day Job and Made Millions Trading Virtual Loot, the ultimate conclusion is that the boundary between the real and virtual worlds, or between work and play, is becoming increasingly blurred and mobile. |
Entrepreneur
August 2007
Amanda C. Kooser |
Take It Online Virtual trade shows, expos and conventions take care of some very real business. And why not? Online events are cost-effective, faster and easier. |
Entrepreneur
July 2008
Julie Sloane |
Life After Google Recently, an increasing number of early Google employees have cashed out their options in order to share their wealth and expertise with early stage companies. Read on about three of them and what they are investing in. |
Fast Company
Pavithra Mohan |
Europe Is Cracking Down On Bitcoin To Impede Terrorist Financing The European Commission announced earlier this week that it was investigating whether or not bitcoin and other digital currencies were involved in terrorist financing. |
The Motley Fool
June 14, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Get a Room, eBay and Google The two dot-com titans are bickering again. The latest spat is a simultaneous slap that finds eBay pulling its stateside contextual marketing spots from Google's paid search program just as Google made plans to crash tonight's launch of eBay Live with a media-magnetizing protest. |
