General-Electric (Energy-Europe), has just launched a recruitment campaign for its future employees via the game Second Life. Judging by the number of interviews and applications received, this strategy has been a real success. (more…)
Second Life’s virtual economy is collapsing. Ginko, the virtual investment bank which collects Linden Dollars in Second Life has filed for bankruptcy and is incapable of honouring more than 200,000,000 Lindens deposited by its 20,000 members. This represents a real loss of $US 750,000.
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