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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. |
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
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. |
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
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Entrepreneur
February 2008
Amanda C. Kooser |
Out of This World Opportunities abound in online gaming. |
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? |
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 |
Wired
April 2006
Chris Suellentrop |
Global Gaming Crackdown How governments from Beijing to the Beltway could shackle your freedom. |
BusinessWeek
November 20, 2008 |
In Search of a Business Model Facebook has been developing a business model designed to go beyond traditional online advertising. |
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. |
Entrepreneur
May 2009
Joel Holland |
Go Virtual With Your Work Force Outsourcing and virtual hiring can give startups lower costs and enables them to work with talented employees all over the world. |
Entrepreneur
June 2003
Chris Penttila |
Intern Affairs More and more companies are hiring virtual interns. But is this a good thing for everyone involved? |
Inc.
April 1, 2010
Max Chafkin |
The Best Collaboration Tools Five free tools to keep a virtual company humming. |
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. |
InternetNews
March 10, 2011 |
Why do SMBs Love Virtual Offices? Survey details some of key reasons small-to-mid-size business owners, CEOs and sales managers regularly leverage virtual office capabilities. |
Fast Company
April 1, 2011
Leah Fabel |
The Business of Facebook After all its maneuverings to get us to open up, the social-networking behemoth is expected to go public itself sometime this year. Here, a look at the numbers propelling its estimated $50 billion valuation. |
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. |
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
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. |
PC World
October 2001
Ramon G. McLeod |
Play CD-ROMs Without Using a Drive Farstone Technology's Virtual Drive 6.1 CD emulator speeds game play... |
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
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. |
InternetNews
February 2, 2006
Paul Shread |
Virtual Replication Made Easy Virtual server replication may soon get easier, thanks to NSI Software's Double-Take for Virtual Systems. |
Entrepreneur
March 2006
Paul & Sarah Edwards |
Is Starting a Homebased Business For You? How you can use existing skills to start your own home-based business. |
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
July 13, 2009
Anders Bylund |
Virtualization: What It Is and Why You Should Care Virtualization is perhaps the hottest high-tech buzzword around these days. But what exactly is it -- and how does the whole concept affect your portfolio of tech investments? Let's find out. |
Entrepreneur
March 2007
Sara Wilson |
Unreal World The creator of today's hottest virtual land offers a glimpse into his reality. |
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. |
InternetNews
November 13, 2009 |
IBM Debuts Virtual Server Security App IBM on Friday jumped on the virtualization security bandwagon with the release of Virtual Server Security for VMware vSphere, an application designed to secure workloads running on virtual servers. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
InternetNews
July 23, 2010 |
Riverbed Enters Virtual WAN Optimization Market With announcement of virtual appliance versions of Riverbed's Steelhead WAN optimization hardware offerings, the company becomes the latest entrant into a crowding marketplace. |
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. |
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. |
PC Magazine
June 20, 2007
Brian Heater |
Q&A Brian Shuster Red Light Center The founder of Utherverse talks about creating the controversial Red Light Center, the red-light-district version of Second Life. |
PC Magazine
February 1, 2008
Bill Dyszel |
Windows in a Window Virtual machines let you muck around with older versions of Windows and even other operating systems without consequences! |
CRM
October 2010
Koa Beck |
Anybody's Bot Virtual agents, deemed the new concierge of the Internet, help customers navigate through ever-increasing Web site complexities. |
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. |
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
July 7, 2009
Anders Bylund |
VMware Wants Oracle's Customers, Too The leading virtualization expert is offering "aggressive discounts" on enterprise-class VMware software if you can show a valid Virtual Iron license. |
