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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. |
The Motley Fool
August 9, 2011
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Baidu's Talk Is Cheap Baidu shutters its microblogging website. |
The Motley Fool
February 25, 2011
Andrew Bond |
SINA Faces a Stricter Social Network Social media in China are always one incident away from potential shutdown. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2012
Rachel Courtland |
Virtual Currency Gets Real Will Facebook Credits and other social scrip challenge government-backed currencies? |
The Motley Fool
August 18, 2011
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Weibo Wobbles but It Won't Fall Down China's dot-com darling delivers a mixed quarter. |
BusinessWeek
February 25, 2010
Ari Levy et al. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
November 9, 2011
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
SINA Pays the Price for Growth The parent of the red-hot Weibo posts better-than-expected results. |
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. |
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
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
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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
August 21, 2009 |
Facebook Pages Publish to Twitter With New Tool Promotional marketing on the top social networking site just got easier with a new tool that automatically publishes Facebook Pages content to Twitter. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
January 11, 2011
Andrew Bond |
China Offers Strong Social Web Plays Don't bet on take-outs; instead bet on good companies. |
The Motley Fool
October 14, 2011
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
SINA Lives to Blog Another Day A stay of execution for SINA's popular blogging website is sweet news to shareholders. |
BusinessWeek
February 17, 2011
Fan Wenxin |
A Twitter Knockoff Has China Talking Sina Weibo took advantage of a social media vacuum to become the top micro-blogging service in China. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
August 25, 2011
Evan Niu |
Renren Friends Microsoft Microsoft partners with yet another Chinese Internet company. |
Entrepreneur
February 2008
Amanda C. Kooser |
Out of This World Opportunities abound in online gaming. |
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. |
InternetNews
October 22, 2009 |
Facebook's Got Rhythm, Starts Music Sales Facebook jumps on the digital music bandwagon by selling songs in its gift shop. |
Fast Company
February 2011
Jeremy Goldkorn |
Youtube = Youku? Websites and Their Chinese Equivalents The electronic barriers that keep foreign websites out have created a safe space for copycats. A look at the Middle Kingdom's parallel Internet universe. |
The Motley Fool
September 27, 2011
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Renren Rolls the Videotape The Chinese social networking site makes a push for user-generated video. |
The Motley Fool
September 15, 2010
Carl Bagh |
Google's Upcoming Social Network Is a Layer, Not Standalone Product Can Google pull any of Facebook's 500 million users away? |
The Motley Fool
August 5, 2010
Carl Bagh |
Small Buy, Big Plans: Google Buys Slide Google recognizes the emerging threat from Facebook. |
The Motley Fool
August 9, 2010
Manikandan Raman |
Consolidation Clouds Social Gaming Space Acquisitions are in the air. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2011
Sky Canaves |
What Are You Allowed to Say on China's Social Networks? Social networking sites, founded on the promise of free expression, have run into political trouble in China. |
The Motley Fool
December 20, 2011
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Baidu Answers the Call Baidu teams up with Dell on a smartphone for China. |
InternetNews
March 9, 2011 |
Facebook Movie Rental to Be a Box Office Smash? The first-ever VOD movie service at Facebook could roll with the momentum of several other trends to become a success, according to industry analysts. |
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
October 11, 2011
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
China Bounces Back Barclays Capital initiates coverage of leading Chinese Internet companies: Youku.com... Sohu.com... SINA... Renren... NetEase.com... Dangdang... Changyou.com... Baidu.com... |
BusinessWeek
November 20, 2008 |
In Search of a Business Model Facebook has been developing a business model designed to go beyond traditional online advertising. |
The Motley Fool
November 7, 2006
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
NetEase's Northward Journey Strengthened by popular games, NetEase beats Wall Street once more. |
The Motley Fool
December 14, 2011
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Zynga Plays Words With Fiends Bears are calling their shots ahead of Friday's IPO. |
The Motley Fool
September 12, 2011
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Alibaba Wants to Be Baidu's Worst Nightmare Alibaba has strong fighting words for China's leading search engine. |
The Motley Fool
June 21, 2011
Anders Bylund |
Welcome To the Internet Bubble That Wasn't The first quarterly report from Renren, the Chinese social network operator, wasn't bad, but the seas ahead still look murky and cold. |
The Motley Fool
December 13, 2011
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Renren: A Year in Review The Chinese social networking had a rough first year as a public company. |
The Motley Fool
August 4, 2005
Alyce Lomax |
A So-So Sina? China may be a hotbed of investor interest these days, but Chinese Internet media play Sina has hit a few speed bumps recently. |
The Motley Fool
November 9, 2004
Tim Goh |
Is Shanda Overvalued? The Chinese online games company's high valuation is even more of a concern with the success of its competition. |
The Motley Fool
June 17, 2011
Brian Stoffel |
A Beginner's Guide to Chinese Technology Stocks Introduce yourself to these seven companies: ChinaCache... Dangdang... Youku.com... Renren... Qihoo 360... SINA... Baidu... |
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. |
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
June 15, 2011
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
This Can't Be Right After helping take Renren public last month at $14, Pacific Crest analyst Evan Wilson is initiating coverage of the Chinese social-networking site operator with an $11 price target. |
