NEW YORK (Reuters) - FBI investigators have visited Second Life's Internet casinos at the invitation of the virtual world's creator Linden Lab, but the U.S. government has not decided on the legality ...

Linden Lab has been around forever, and Ebbe Altberg, the new chief executive of the publisher of the Second Life virtual world, has a tough task ahead of him. The company is in the middle of pivoting ...

It is common knowledge that online gaming is big business these days, though few probably realize how much online gaming can do for a business. In particular, social games like Second Life show a ...

GM's Pontiac division is the latest automaker to get involved with virtual world Second Life. Pontiac announced Friday that it is purchasing a six-region land mass called Motorati Island and offering ...

BusinessWeek magazine is credited with writing the first story more than a year ago about the business applications for Second Life, in a story headlined, Some examples:* The August issue of Wired ...

Last week, Intel invited me to California to participate in a panel about Second Life. The panel included a range of people who have participated in the virtual world, and some interesting ...

As the Virtual Worlds conference kicked off in Silicon Valley yesterday, IBM announced a partnership with Linden Lab, makers of Second Life, to create portable avatars that you can bring with you to ...

SAN JOSE (Reuters) - When Cisco Systems decided to enter the Second Life virtual world, things didn't turn out exactly as the network equipment supplier expected. Sign up here. "We were quick. We got ...

From TechCrunch comes a rumor that probably has the crew at Linden Lab — and the creators of other social virtual worlds — looking nervously over their shoulders: Google — or some other “major ...

With news on Monday of Google buying in-games advertising firm Adscape Media, it should come at no surprise, really, that the market for massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) in the West is said ...