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IEEE Spectrum
December 2007
David Kushner |
Playing Dirty Automating computer game play takes cheating to a new and profitable level.   |
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. |
BusinessWeek
May 1, 2006 |
Virtual Worlds, Virtual Economies An economist talks about how online games can blur the line between fantasy and reality. |
PC World
January 29, 2007
Julian Dibbel |
Virtual Gold Could Draw Real Taxes Congress is investigating whether the IRS should tax online game loot. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2012
Rachel Courtland |
Virtual Currency Gets Real Will Facebook Credits and other social scrip challenge government-backed currencies? |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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." |
Wired
April 2006
Chris Suellentrop |
Global Gaming Crackdown How governments from Beijing to the Beltway could shackle your freedom. |
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. |
Wired
April 2006
Edward Castronova |
Geekonomics What if everything in life was free? You'd think we'd be happier. But game designers know better: We'd be bored. Here's why abundance doesn't quite work, and other unexpected lessons of the game economy. |
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. |
Reason
June 2002
Jesse Walker |
Artifact: Norrath Paribus According to a recent study by Edward Castronova, an economist at Cal State Fullerton, one virtual polity -- the world of EverQuest -- now has an economy larger than India's or China's... |
Entrepreneur
February 2008
Amanda C. Kooser |
Out of This World Opportunities abound in online gaming. |
BusinessWeek
May 1, 2006 |
My Virtual Life A journey into a place in cyberspace where thousands of people have imaginary lives. Some even make a good living. Big advertisers are taking notice. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
September 20, 2011
Matt Koppenheffer |
If Only Gold Were Our Currency! Wish we were on a gold standard? Think again. |
AskMen.com
Terence Channon |
Personal Finance: Build Your Pot Of Gold Here are answers to some of the most frequently asked questions posed by neophyte gold investors about building a pot of gold. |
BusinessWeek
May 1, 2006
Robert D. Hof |
It's Not All Fun And Games Companies are also starting to use virtual worlds as alternate offices in which colleagues and partners can meet and view materials that the Web isn't rich enough to display well. |
The Motley Fool
December 21, 2006
Robert Aronen |
Dreaming of a Gold Christmas? A 5%-10% position in gold in your holdings may soften the blow of the next bear market. |
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. |
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 10, 2011
Amanda Buchanan |
Why Gold Makes an Awesome Investment This daring knight battles a vicious, inflationary beast. ETFs provide a particularly easy way to invest in gold as a commodity, and both the SPDR Gold Trust ETF and ETFS Gold Trust are currently outperforming the S&P 500 by more than 5.5% over the past year. |
The Motley Fool
December 1, 2005
Robert Aronen |
I'll Take the Gold Gold has been around a lot longer than Google and will still be around when Google is a distant memory. Investors looking to gain direct exposure to gold without the hassle of owning can buy it through two ETFs: iShares COMEX Gold or Streettracks Gold. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
May 31, 2006
Robert Aronen |
Gold: As Good As a Dollar? One of the causes for the recent spike in the gold prices? The declining power of the once-almighty dollar. Bearing in mind the long-run returns on gold compared with stocks, an investment in gold should be considered only as a part of a well-diversified portfolio. |
The Motley Fool
April 29, 2011
Alex Dumortier |
Gold Is Now 3 Times Overpriced! Historical averages matter; sub-$500 gold is likely. |
The Motley Fool
November 2, 2010
Alex Dumortier |
Warning! Gold Could Drop Below $500 Gold is a high-risk bet, not a safe haven. |
The Motley Fool
June 30, 2006
Robert Aronen |
Solid Gold in the '70s There's no doubt that the gold and precious-metals markets are hot. To feed the buying demand, additional products have hit the ETF market. |
On Wall Street
January 1, 2011
Nick Barisheff |
The New Gold Rush A look at four of gold's most important rules; the irreversible trends affecting the gold price; and how the consequences of these trends will push gold higher in 2011 and beyond. |
The Motley Fool
July 14, 2010
Anand Chokkavelu |
Buy, Sell, or Hold: Gold Is all that glitters a buy? |
The Motley Fool
May 31, 2011
Dee Gill |
Good as Gold? George Soros Sells the Metal, Buys the Miner Even the most successful investors in the world can't agree on how to interpret the most recent signals from the gold market. |
Financial Planning
January 1, 2010
Frank E. Holmes |
A Golden Future With demand up and supply down, high gold prices could be here to stay. |
Financial Planning
October 2, 2007
Gene Fama |
Glitter Me This Gold has been a hot commodity lately, but that doesn't make it a good investment. Decisions should be based not on historical returns but on what we know about portfolio theory and economic logic. |
Investment Advisor
March 2010
Brad McMillan |
Expert's Corner: The Use of Gold in Portfolios In times of trouble, gold is the perennial hot topic. |
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
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
January 2008
David Kushner |
Winner: Make Your Very Own Virtual World with OLIVE Forterra's OLIVE software makes the business of virtual-world environments real. |
BusinessWeek
November 20, 2006
Steve Hamm |
Palmisano Gets A Second Life IBM is embracing the virtual world of avatars - and other big companies are close behind. |
The Motley Fool
April 9, 2007
Chuck Saletta |
Dueling Fools: Gold Bear Don't get suckered into buying an expensive hunk of commodity metal after its run to the stratosphere. |
The Motley Fool
December 15, 2010
Andrew Sullivan |
Why I'm Putting All My Cash Into Gold Commercials advertise "Cash for Gold," but maybe, the far smarter move is "Gold for Cash." |
The Motley Fool
January 27, 2011
Owain Bennallack |
Gold: The Sure Thing That's Falling Like a Stone Gold is eternal, but the gold price might not be. |
Financial Planning
April 1, 2012
Adrian Day |
Gold Stocks vs. Gold Gold stocks are now trading close to 20-year valuation lows, relative to the bullion. They could play catch-up. If gold moves up as the broad stock market continues to rally, gold stocks will likely be among the top-performing sectors this year. |
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
November 14, 2008
Christopher Barker |
Things Are Askew at Gammon Gold Gammon Gold reports a surprise loss of $6.5 million for the third quarter. |
On Wall Street
December 1, 2008
Tim Knepp |
Panning for Gold Whenever the markets turn south, interest in gold increases -- here are some ways to invest in this precious metal. |
The Motley Fool
February 27, 2009
Ivan Martchev |
Why Gold Is an Excellent Deflationary Hedge Gold is famous as an inflation hedge, but it works just as well in deflation. |
Financial Advisor
June 2012
Marla Brill |
Glitter In Gold Mining An unusual confluence of rising profits and falling stock prices has led to incredibly low valuations for mining shares. |
Registered Rep.
April 26, 2013
Megan Leonhardt |
All That Glitters... James Rickards is a 35-year veteran of Wall Street and the capital markets. An avowed proponent of holding gold and a critic of the Federal Reserve, he's the author of Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis and a senior managing director of Tangent Capital in New York City. |
