Tag: VIRTUALGOODS

Perpetually baby-faced Mark Pincus, CEO of Zynga and god of 'Farmville,' is now worth $1 billion, all thanks to your stupid virtual corn. "Blame only yourselves," I said when 'CityVille' grew even larger than your digital homesteads, as you merrily stuffed Facebook Credits into his gaping pockets. Now the company is valued between $7 and $9 billion, and Pincus' Bieber hair has found its way into ...

What's more pathetic than buying a bunch of fake furniture for your fake Facebook apartment? Stealing the "furniture" from someone's said "apartment." That's exactly what one hacker did to Paola Letizia, a 44-year-old Italian woman and perhaps overzealous 'Pet Society' gamer. After working his way into Letizia's e-mail and Facebook accounts, the hacker turned his attention to her virtual ...

Share Readers, our passion is the Internet. In fact, we're probably online -- posting, commenting, tweeting, Facebooking -- more than you. And yet, despite our deft Web skillz, we still can't really wrap our minds around the concept of virtual currency and goods. Paying hard-earned, real-life dollars to send your friend a tiny digital duck just makes no sense to us -- and yet, it's been quite a ...

With government stimulus checks starting to hit the mail, Americans are being encouraged to go buy things. Many will do just that, taking any excuse to run to the mall to buy something extravagant, but these days many will need that money to pay a few bills down. If you're in that latter group, fear not, because a new program from Cellufun will let you go shopping at a virtual mall and buy all ...