Virtual goods and micro-transactions have been driving the billion-dollar online games industry across Asia for years. And deals like EA’s $… Read More »
Virtual Merchants Banned From Using Real Brands In Second Life
By Tameka Kee
Aug. 12, 2009, 11:50pm
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In Second Life, selling avatars that look like celebrities and apparel that mimics couture designs is big business — a mainstay of the worl… Read More »
Stratim Capital Buys Stake In Linden Lab
By Tameka Kee
Jun. 19, 2009, 2:35am
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Late stage investment firm Stratim Capital has picked up an undisclosed stake in Second Life parent company Linden Lab — buying out one of… Read More »
More proof that the virtual goods business continues to do well: Linden Lab is forecasting that users will conduct about $450 million dollar… Read More »
Linden Lab CFO John Zdanowski has resigned, headed off to “find the next business adventure,” according to the company blog. Known as “Zee L… Read More »
A major part of Second Life’s appeal is that people can make their avatars into anything they want: vampires, steampunks, fashion models and… Read More »
Second Life is still a vibrant virtual world — with over 12.2 million registered users and more than 54,000 online the last time I logged i… Read More »
Second Life Comes To Mobile
By Tricia Duryee
Jun. 4, 2008, 12:46am
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Now people living in the Second Life can feel free to leave the house. Even though it would seem like an impossible feat to scale down the p… Read More »
Linden Lab, the parent company of Second Life, has appointed a big name CEO: Mark Kingdon, till now the CEO of Omnicom digital agency Organi… Read More »
So the other shoe has dropped on Second Life: the once-hyped and then much-maligned virtual world company is losing its creator, founder and… Read More »
As reasons for start-up layoffs go, it’s almost near mantra status: We’ve grown so much in recent months that it’s time to stop and trim. Th… Read More »
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