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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."   |
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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
September 25, 2008
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An Unreal Financial Crisis You know it's bad when economic woes extend to the virtual world. |
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
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. |
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. |
Wired
April 2006
Chris Suellentrop |
Global Gaming Crackdown How governments from Beijing to the Beltway could shackle your freedom. |
BusinessWeek
May 1, 2006 |
Virtual Worlds, Virtual Economies An economist talks about how online games can blur the line between fantasy and reality. |
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
June 12, 2008
Anders Bylund |
Disruptive Technologies: VMware's Virtual Server Software Of the ten technologies most likely to change our lives in the near future, perhaps the biggest business opportunity lies in virtual computing. Read on for how you can invest in the visionaries of this brave new world. |
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. |
Inc.
February 2007
Michael Fitzgerald |
Does Your Business Need a Second Life? Why are companies like Toyota and Dell and Starwood Hotels getting immersed in Second Life. |
The Motley Fool
May 18, 2009
Anders Bylund |
Where's the Next Big Buyout in Tech? The tech sector consolidates a little bit more. Who's next to go? |
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. |
AskMen.com
Phil Helm |
5 Things You Didn't Know About Second Life Maybe you've tried and liked Second Life and maybe you haven't; either way there are surely a few things about the virtual world that may surprise you. |
Wired
July 24, 2007
Frank Rose |
How Madison Avenue Is Wasting Millions on a Deserted Second Life More and more people are leaving this virtual world, leaving advertisers and big name companies behind. |
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. |
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 |
The Motley Fool
July 13, 2006
Anders Bylund |
VMware Matches Microsoft Blow for Virtual Blow In the race to gain an edge in an emerging market, Microsoft and EMC are matching virtualization software wits. |
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. |
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. |
Wired
April 2006
Brown & Thomas |
You Play World of Warcraft? You're Hired! Why multiplayer games may be the best kind of job training. |
InternetNews
June 24, 2010 |
Oracle Rides Sun to Big 4Q Earnings Oracle posted a profit of $3 billion for the latest quarter. |
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. |
Inc.
January 2009
Nitasha Tiku |
Update Linden Lab is still going through some real-world growing pains. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2012
Rachel Courtland |
Virtual Currency Gets Real Will Facebook Credits and other social scrip challenge government-backed currencies? |
Entrepreneur
June 2010
Jason Daley |
Should We Meet in Another World? Second Life tries for a second coming with a new environment designed to be a less seedy, more secure place to do business. |
The Motley Fool
January 10, 2008
Anders Bylund |
VMware: The New Virtual Reality Today's virtual server platforms lets system administrators do things they could never do on plain hardware. |
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. |
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. |
Entrepreneur
February 2007
Gwen Moran |
Hot New Market: Online Worlds Should you take your business to the virtual world? |
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
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
April 2, 2008 |
Avatars at House Hearing on Virtual World Second Life and censorship discussed on Capitol Hill. |
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. |
InternetNews
May 13, 2009
Alex Goldman |
Oracle Acquires Virtual Iron for Oracle VM The acquisition of Virtual Iron will enhance Oracle VM in the future - but also showcases the gaps in the current feature set. |
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. |
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. |
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
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. |
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. |
Entrepreneur
August 2006
Nichole L. Torres |
Game Plans Students are learning business strategy by playing entrepreneur. |
Financial Planning
February 1, 2005
Brent Hicks |
Practice Tips A virtual office doesn't have an actual, physical location. Here are three important practical considerations when setting up a virtual financial advisory office. |
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. |
BusinessWeek
May 1, 2006 |
Virtual Land, Real Money Second Life is an online world where a savvy avatar can make a bundle. Its best known "land" developer explains how. |
InternetNews
February 14, 2005
Clint Boulton |
Startup Has Designs on Super Virtualization Virtual Iron has created software to subsume the work of several, connected physical servers in a data center. |
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... |
CIO
July 1, 2004
Edward Prewitt |
Let's Start Meeting Like This A recent study of virtual work groups finds how they can be more productive and more effective than teams that always meet face-to-face. |
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. |
