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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. |
BusinessWeek
February 24, 2011
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Getting Social Media Games to Play Overseas U.S. designers rely on "localizers" such as Miami's Mentez to make their hits work abroad |
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
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
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. |
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. |
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. |
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
February 2008
Amanda C. Kooser |
Out of This World Opportunities abound in online gaming. |
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
June 2012
Rachel Courtland |
Virtual Currency Gets Real Will Facebook Credits and other social scrip challenge government-backed currencies? |
The Motley Fool
July 19, 2011
Michelle Zayed |
How Bright Is Zynga's Future? Zynga is a new business and investors are skeptical, but if it makes the right decisions it could become a leading online gaming company. |
The Motley Fool
January 25, 2011
Roger Nachman |
What Else Can Facebook Do? The Goldman deal has brought on a lot of scrutiny to the social networking site, as the SEC is looking into whether Facebook has to go public because of the number of investors it has. |
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. |
BusinessWeek
November 17, 2010
Douglas MacMillan |
How Zynga Is Polishing CityVille Zynga is under pressure to extend its string of hit online social games. Its next title, due later this month: CityVille. |
BusinessWeek
October 22, 2009
MacMillan et al. |
Inside the App Economy Beyond the goofy games is a world of useful programs that's making fortunes and changing the rules of business. |
The Motley Fool
January 5, 2012
Patrick Martin |
Zynga Offers More of the Same The company's latest game feels oddly familiar. |
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? |
The Motley Fool
August 5, 2010
Carl Bagh |
Small Buy, Big Plans: Google Buys Slide Google recognizes the emerging threat from Facebook. |
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. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
October 10, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
PlayStation Plays Hard to Get Will short supply make PlayStation 3 a craze or a passing phase? |
BusinessWeek
June 23, 2011
Stone & Vance |
Web Games Threaten the Console A generation of new titles from the cloud have all the action and graphical richness of traditional shoot-em-ups and strategy games. |
The Motley Fool
December 19, 2011
Patrick Martin |
3 Reasons I'm Not Buying Zynga It's probably a better investment than virtual manure, but not by much. |
BusinessWeek
June 23, 2011
Douglas MacMillan |
FarmVille Meets the Hollywood Tie-In Facebook game tie-ins are launching for film and television content such as Weeds. |
The Motley Fool
September 9, 2011
Evan Niu |
Winners and Losers in Cloud Gaming Which companies face game over? |
The Motley Fool
August 9, 2010
Manikandan Raman |
Consolidation Clouds Social Gaming Space Acquisitions are in the air. |
The Motley Fool
November 9, 2009
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
EA Goes Fishing in Facebook's Pond Social-network game maker Playfish gets reeled in by Electronic Arts |
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. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
July 5, 2011
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
5 Stocks Worth Surprisingly Less Than Zynga Zynga's IPO is too hot for its own good. |
The Motley Fool
December 1, 2010
Jacob Roche |
Even 6-Year-Olds Want an iPad Recent Nielsen data show children want iPads far more than gaming consoles. |
Search Engine Watch
December 19, 2010
Avril Korman |
Tis the Season to be Shopping: How Virtual Goods Are Impacting Holiday Shopping Culture E-cards to virtual meals - how virtual goods have changed in 15 years. |
The Motley Fool
August 25, 2010
Manikandan Raman |
How Can Disney Justify Higher Price for Playdom? Disney takes advantage of the growth in social gaming. |
The Motley Fool
January 12, 2007
Jack Uldrich |
Prepare for the Virtualetes Wii-like gaming consoles and virtual reality technologies are only going to improve with time. Virtual-reality video gaming will be a huge business. |
The Motley Fool
November 22, 2010
Andrew Bond |
Real Estate Is Still Booming Here Virtual real estate looks like a better investment than virtual games. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2011
David Kushner |
Facebook vs. Google: Game On FarmVille is an internet game that will sway the Facebook-Google struggle and threaten the digital gaming industry |
Search Engine Watch
January 29, 2011
Avril Korman |
Beast Wars: The Bunny People vs. The Horse People A Second Life dispute over breedable virtual creatures might sound silly, but it has some very high stakes and involves some very serious money. |
The Motley Fool
December 16, 2011
Patrick Martin |
2011: The Year in Video Games Here's what happened in the video game industry this year. |
The Motley Fool
July 28, 2010
Manikandan Raman |
Disney Jumps Into Social Gaming, to Buy Playdom Walt Disney Co is all set to take a leading market share in fast-growing online social gaming space with its $563.2 million deal to buy social game-start-up Playdom. |
The Motley Fool
December 16, 2011
Evan Niu |
Did You Buy Zynga Today? Today was Zynga's first day trading in public. |
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
September 3, 2008
Tim Beyers |
How Did Facebook Do That? Virtual gifts -- those little $1 on-screen doo-dads you can give to your friends -- may be producing $34.5 million in annual revenue for the social-networking superstar. |
InternetNews
November 13, 2006
Michael Hickins |
Real Cash in $100M Virtual IBM Investment IBM to Announce $100 million investment at Second Life 'Town Hall' Meeting tomorrow. |
The Motley Fool
February 12, 2010
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Video Games: Diehards Die Hard, Again The video game industry kicks off 2010 on the wrong foot. |
Popular Mechanics
December 24, 2009 |
Top 15 Events in the Past Decade of Gaming These aren't necessarily the best hardware and software releases -- here's looking at you, Facebook games -- but the ones that had the most impact. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
September 25, 2008
Tim Beyers |
An Unreal Financial Crisis You know it's bad when economic woes extend to the virtual world. |
PC World
January 29, 2007
Julian Dibbel |
Virtual Gold Could Draw Real Taxes Congress is investigating whether the IRS should tax online game loot. |
