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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. |
Fast Company
July 2009
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Boomtown Virtual goods, such as avatars and Facebook gifts, are attracting major brands, celebrities, and venture capital. The money is real. |
InternetNews
April 24, 2009
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Vanity URLs a Perfect Fit for Facebook Facebook promised profitability. Is this how it's going to get there? |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2012
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Virtual Currency Gets Real Will Facebook Credits and other social scrip challenge government-backed currencies? |
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November 30, 2004
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eBay of the Elves A new computer game from Vivendi takes cues from the success of eBay. |
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. |
Search Engine Watch
October 2, 2010
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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. |
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January 22, 2008
Tim Beyers |
Ad-dicted to EA Electronic Arts plans to sell ad-supported games. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
November 10, 2008 |
Facebook: Bigger Than France Facebook is creating a business-friendly virtual economy whose borders have yet to be fully defined. |
BusinessWeek
February 25, 2010
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Facebook Tests a Payment Service for Virtual Goods Facebook will explore the feasibility of extending its virtual currency. At stake: a potential $530 million in additional revenue. |
BusinessWeek
May 5, 2011
Ashlee Vance |
Electronic Arts's Plan to Get Your Last Gaming Dollar EA's big bet on digital gaming, which has cost hundreds of millions in infrastructure costs, may finally be paying off. |
The Motley Fool
August 9, 2011
Patrick Martin |
Electronic Arts Plays a New Game The video game industry is evolving, but this game company is ready. |
IEEE Spectrum
October 2010
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The End of Gold Farming? Real-world laborers make real-world money in virtual worlds. But maybe not for long |
The Motley Fool
June 6, 2011
Matthew Argersinger |
E3 2011: The Video Game Industry's Social Future Join our analysts as they get ready to visit this year's big video game convention. |
The Motley Fool
September 15, 2010
Carl Bagh |
Google's Upcoming Social Network Is a Layer, Not Standalone Product Can Google pull any of Facebook's 500 million users away? |
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November 22, 2010
Andrew Bond |
Real Estate Is Still Booming Here Virtual real estate looks like a better investment than virtual games. |
Search Engine Watch
December 11, 2010
Avril Korman |
Virtuality & Mortality: Who Owns The Online Content We Create After We Die? Laws beginning to recognize virtual property as part of estate planning. |
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. |
Science News
June 2, 2007 |
Science Safari: NOAA's Virtual World Players of the virtual reality game Second Life can now soar through a virtual hurricane at NOAA's new site. |
The Motley Fool
October 3, 2007
Tim Beyers |
Barry Diller Needs a Second Life InterActiveCorp may make a good match for Second Life, offering the virtual inhabitants Ticketmaster, LendingTree, Citysearch, Match.com, and other online services. |
InternetNews
July 16, 2009 |
Facebook Talks Ad Tech for Devs, Hits 250M Users Social networking giant Facebook has rolled out a new set of ad-targeting technologies to better help developers monetize their applications and expanded its virtual currency program across the Facebook Platform. |
Wired
April 2006
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Global Gaming Crackdown How governments from Beijing to the Beltway could shackle your freedom. |
PC World
January 29, 2007
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Virtual Gold Could Draw Real Taxes Congress is investigating whether the IRS should tax online game loot. |
The Motley Fool
March 22, 2005
Seth Jayson |
Microsoft Redefines Cheating How do you stop gamers from using real-world bucks to tip the game? Why stop it at all? If Microsoft and its content partners such as Electronic Arts and Activision can capture -- or better yet, nurture -- this multimillion-dollar market, shareholders should see some real rewards. |
BusinessWeek
April 22, 2010
Douglas MacMillan |
Zynga and Facebook. It's Complicated As long as Zynga keeps supplying Facebook with hit games -- and ad revenue -- it could be a long and profitable partnership. |
The Motley Fool
February 11, 2010
Anders Bylund |
Will Activision Fall In the EA Trap? Is Activision Blizzard about to fall into the same trap that has hamstrung Electronic Arts in the last couple of years? |
InternetNews
October 9, 2006
David Needle |
Is Sun's News For Real? Sun is holding a press conference from within Second Life, a virtual online world. |
The Motley Fool
April 26, 2010
Dave Mock |
3 Reasons to Sell Electronic Arts Today Though the gaming sector holds immense potential, at least a few of the 2,205 Motley Fool CAPS members who've weighed in on the company offer reasons to be bearish on EA. |
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November 11, 2010
Jason Moser |
This Party Is Just Getting Started A look at Activision Blizzard's games, their performance, and the company's future. |
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December 3, 2008
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Everyone Wants to Play in Asia Electronic Arts and Shanda shore up their online gaming businesses with different acquisitions. |
The Motley Fool
September 1, 2011
Tim Beyers |
Finally, Zynga Gets a Serious Competitor "The Sims Social" catches fire on Facebook. |
BusinessWeek
May 1, 2006 |
Virtual Worlds, Virtual Economies An economist talks about how online games can blur the line between fantasy and reality. |
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
November 8, 2010
Anders Bylund |
Why Do You Love Activision Blizzard? This video game company lacks fresh ideas. |
The Motley Fool
November 6, 2009
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Throw This Stock Away Who gets tossed out this week? Come on down, Activision Blizzard |
InternetNews
June 4, 2009
Michelle Megna |
Facebook See Profits in New Payment System As Facebook continues to both grow and avoid profitability, can the social networking site make money by employing a site-wide e-commerce platform? |
| Fast Company |
A Facebook User's Challenge To Facebook: Here's All My Data, Now Give Me Ads I Like Facebook, the world's largest social network, relaunched a brand-focused service that will allow companies to zap ads to your screens even when you aren't looking at Facebook. |
PC Magazine
April 4, 2007
Jim Louderback |
When the Game Is You Anyone who's played the Nintendo Wii knows how much fun it is to be in the game. |
The Motley Fool
April 15, 2009
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Blizzard of Change in China NetEase.com is reportedly replacing The9 as the operator of Activision Blizzard's popular World of Warcraft in mainland China, when the current contract expires in a couple of months. |
The Motley Fool
January 5, 2009
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
If I Have to Buy 1 Stock in 2009 It's time to invest in the best of the best. After choosing the best stocks in several sectors this analyst chooses China's Sohu as the best of the best. |
InternetNews
March 14, 2011 |
Facebook to Offer Online Group Discounts Facebook is rolling out tests of an online coupon service to be shared among friends. |
The Motley Fool
September 17, 2010
Travis Hoium |
Activision Blizzard vs. Electronic Arts Activision Blizzard has moved to subscription revenue leaving EA in the dust. |
InternetNews
October 22, 2009 |
Facebook's Got Rhythm, Starts Music Sales Facebook jumps on the digital music bandwagon by selling songs in its gift shop. |
The Motley Fool
February 25, 2011
Aditi Baid |
Zynga: Now With More Zing! Zynga, the company behind Facebook's most popular games, joins the lineup of tech companies achieving sky high valuations. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
January 6, 2012
Jeremy Bowman |
1 Recent IPO That's Actually Making Money In a sea of overvalued IPOs, Zynga's been turning a profit for a while. |
Scientific American
July 2009
Michael Tennesen |
Avatar Acts: Why Online Realities Need Regulation Conflicts on environments like Second Life can open up new legal questions |
The Motley Fool
May 21, 2007
Alyce Lomax |
EA Bets on The9 Investors holding shares of The9 have had a pleasant surprise today: The shares have gone wild on news that Electronic Arts is establishing a stake in the Chinese online-gaming concern. |
