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| Jun 11, 2024 | The Sandbox raised $20 M funding at $1 B valuation cap | Animoca Brands, a Hong Kong-based company, operates the user-generated content (UGC) metaverse platform The Sandbox. The company revealed that it has raised $20 million in convertible promissory notes, with a $1 billion valuation cap.
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| Aug 1, 2022 | Azerion Partners with CyberKongz, Metaverse HQ and Metakey in a Summer of Web3.0 Collaborations within Habbo | David Thompson, Tech Times 01 August 2022, 11:08 am
(Photo : Habbo) Exclusive clothing and items up for grabs for NFT holders
Amsterdam, NL - August 2nd 2022 - Azerion, the digital entertainment and media platform, have announced partnershi... |
| Aug 19, 2021 | Facebook’s “Metaverse” gets a bit closer today with Horizon Workrooms | reader comments 100 with 65 posters participating, including story author
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Workrooms participants can see who's talking by way of visual cues—but those with two functioning ... |
| Nov 27, 2012 | After Losing Over Half Its 9M Users In A Pedophile Scandal, Habbo Hotel Hopes For New Life As A Gaming Platform | Habbo Hotel, the under-21 social networking site that had to close down and then “mute” users over the summer after it was discovered that people were using it to send minors illicit content, is opening a new line of business: as a youth-fo... |
| Nov 2, 2012 | Illustrated People Set Their Latest Collection In An Ultra-lux Fantasy Land | Illustrated people autumn winter 2012 from PABLO & JOSH on Vimeo.
Fashion films are quickly usurping the lookbook and runway show as the method of choice for communicating a collection’s frame of reference. The narrative aspect of film,... |
| Jul 5, 2012 | Disney spends millions to keep Club Penguin’s young audience safe | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Disney is spending nearly $4.7 million on an Internet safety campaign for Club Penguin, an online game designed for young players.
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| Jun 28, 2012 | Habbo Chat Is Reinstated In France, Germany, Italy And The Netherlands | Sulake CEO Paul Lafontaine Opens Applications For Parents Advisory Summit
Company demonstrates continuing commitment to listening and learning
Parents Advisory Summit: parents to apply directly and users to nominate
All parents are invited ... |
| Jun 21, 2012 | Sulake CEO Responds To The Great Unmute And Discusses A New Era Of ‘Protected Democracy’ For Habbo Site | Great Unmute delivers strong social response to recent media storm
Insight into the practical and personal benefits of a virtual community for young people
CEO commits to deliver a new era of ‘Protected Democracy’ to Habbo community
A messa... |
| Jun 15, 2012 | Sulake CEO Commits To Working With Habbo Users And Parents To Deliver A World Class Safety System And Calls For Improved Industry Regulation | Sulake delivers rapid response as leadership and staff work round the clock to deliver world-first safety solutions for Habbo community
Unprecedented user response as thousands of muted Habbos hold silent candle-lit vigil
CEO announces “The... |
| Jun 13, 2012 | Patchy Response From Sites Aimed At Kids In The Wake of Habbo Controversy | In the wake of the disturbing news that teen site Habbo Hotel had hosted illicit and inappropriate content, the response from other sites aimed at teens and younger children has been patchy at best.
Yesterday UK broadcaster Channel 4 publis... |
| Jun 12, 2012 | Trouble At Habbo Hotel: Balderton Dumps Its 13% Stake Over Dodgy Child Content [Updated] | Top European VC firm Balderton today has confirmed to TechCrunch that it is ditching a 13 percent stake in Finnish social networking and virtual world company Sulake, creators of Habbo, after the youth-oriented site was exposed for hosting ... |
| Jan 19, 2012 | Sulake CEO discusses Niko, Habbo Hotel and the drive to move audiences across platforms | With over 10 million unique visitors a month, Habbo Hotel is the world’s largest game and online community for teenagers, with users in over 150 countries. With parent company Sulake releasing Niko, its second iOS (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch)... |
| Jan 19, 2012 | Sulake CEO discusses Niko, Habbo Hotel and the drive to move audiences across platforms | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
With over 10 million unique visitors a month, Habbo Hotel is the world’s largest game and online community for teenagers, with users in... |
| Oct 13, 2011 | The Helsinki Spring | I spent the month of September lecturing, and interacting with (literally) thousands of entrepreneurs in two emerging startup markets, Finland and Russia. This is the first of two posts about Finland and entrepreneurship.
I was invited to F... |
| Sep 20, 2011 | Amex plays virtual-currency-catchup by acquiring Sometrics | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
American Express (Amex) announced today it has acquired virtual currency company Sometrics, for $30 million, according to Tech Crunch.
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| Sep 1, 2010 | Will Gaia enter the pre-teen market? | Former CEO of Gaia Online shares his view on the evolution of gaming and what's in store for Gaia
This summer, I caught up with Craig Sherman, formerly CEO of Gaia Oline, an online hangout/virtual world primarily for teenage girls. This int... |
| Jun 28, 2010 | 3D maps: you’ll be able to walk around in them like in a virtual world | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Online maps are extremely useful, but not very innovative in their present form, as most maps we use today merely mirror paper maps. Th... |
| Jun 28, 2010 | 3D maps: you’ll be able to walk around in them like in a virtual world | Online maps are extremely useful, but not very innovative in their present form, as most maps we use today merely mirror paper maps. The road map serves most of our everyday needs, but as more and more data with a location component to it i... |
| May 20, 2010 | Sulake’s Habbo virtual world for kids keeps growing at fast clip | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Virtual worlds aren’t fashionable in the age of social networks. But Finnish virtual world operator Sulake reported strong growth in th... |
| May 20, 2010 | Sulake’s Habbo virtual world for kids keeps growing at fast clip | Virtual worlds aren’t fashionable in the age of social networks. But Finnish virtual world operator Sulake reported strong growth in the first quarter as its Habbo Hotel expanded quickly despite the lingering recession.
Helsinki-based Sulak... |
| May 12, 2010 | All-new Hotmail to take on Gmail next Monday | Today, Microsoft unveiled its response to the rise of Google Docs for word processing, spreadsheets, and sharing, in the form of Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010.
Next week, Microsoft will unleash a new version of its category-leading Hotmai... |
| May 12, 2010 | All-new Hotmail to take on Gmail next Monday | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Today, Microsoft unveiled its response to the rise of Google Docs for word processing, spreadsheets, and sharing, in the form of Office... |
| Oct 9, 2009 | Vacancies at the Habbo hotel? Sulake laying off 20 percent | The company that created the popular Habbo virtual world plans to lay off 20 percent of its employees, according to published reports.
Sulake is laying off dozens of its 300 employees, mostly at its worldwide headquarters in Helsinki, Finla... |
| Oct 9, 2009 | Vacancies at the Habbo hotel? Sulake laying off 20 percent | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The company that created the popular Habbo virtual world plans to lay off 20 percent of its employees, according to published reports.
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| Aug 17, 2009 | Applications anatomized: Wakoopa's State of the apps | Wakoopa tracks application usage in order to recommend new software, games and web applications. It has two main groups of users: professionals and hedonists. The professionals are generally developers or designers who enable the usage trac... |
| Mar 30, 2009 | Habbo Pulled In $74 Million In Real Revenues Last Year From Virtual Goods And Advertising | Convincing people to pay for nothing, or rather for things with zero marginal cost to produce, is a great business model—in theory. In practice, there are so few examples to point to, and most of them are overseas, such as Helsinki-based te... |
| Jan 12, 2009 | Balderton raises £285m fund, but don't expect much for your early stage startup | London-based Balderton Capital has announced it has secured a new £285 million ($430 million) fund to invest in technology and media startups in the downturn. Amazingly, despite the banking crisis, Balderton got the new fund together in onl... |
| Nov 10, 2008 | Three Rings launches Whirled online games site | Banking on virtual fantasy, Three Rings is launching its Whirled virtual world and game platform today after months of beta testing.
It’s the latest casual online gaming site to let players build their own virtual rooms, create virtual good... |
| Aug 19, 2008 | Most Popular Websites For Kids | Continuing our coverage of the mainstream web, in this post we look at some of the most popular websites for kids. We’ve gathered information from a recent report (pdf) from Nielsen Online, via Marketingvox, which studied the online habits ... |
| Jul 8, 2008 | Updated: Google unveils its long-awaited virtual world technology | Google is going into the virtual world business today as it unveiled “Lively by Google,” a product that lets users create highly personalized 3-D virtual rooms on the web. Users can create their own custom characters, or avatars, and intera... |
| Jun 24, 2008 | 3-D chat room company IMVU hits 20 million members | Chat room site IMVU has been quiet for four years. But the company is announcing today that it has more than 20 million members in its online community where people can use 3-D avatars, or virtual characters, to meet in rooms and trade virt... |
| Jun 5, 2008 | Social Gaming Pwns The Industry | This guest post is written by Jeremy Liew, a Managing Director at Lightspeed Venture Partners where he focuses on investments in gaming, internet and consumer enabling technology companies. Jeremy is co-producing the Social Gaming Summit ne... |
| May 21, 2008 | SmallWorlds Brings a Third Dimension to Web 2.0 | Meet SmallWorlds, a free browser-based 3D virtual world that integrates YouTube, Flickr, and a number of other Web 2.0 services. The site is aimed at the teen and adult markets, and is designed to be more casual than Second Life. SmallWorld... |
| May 19, 2008 | WeeWorld launches a cutesy virtual world | Cutesy virtual worlds seem to be getting quite fashionable today — both Gaia Online or Habbo Hotel have millions of players. So it’s no surprise that we’re getting yet another new cutesy world today with WeeWorld‘s launch of a virtual world... |
| Apr 18, 2008 | WeeWorld’s WeeMee’s gather momentum | The Nintendo Wii may be getting a lot of attention. But the have you heard of WeeWorld and its WeeMee’s? They’re the kind of things that make you smile. Especially for teens and young adults.
A WeeMee is a virtual avatar that you can use as... |
| Jan 29, 2008 | Roundup: Microsoft ads for News Corp., Paramount’s virtual goods, and more | 1. WSJ Digital Network hires Microsoft for ads
2. Paramount Pictures, live in virtual world Habbo
3. Tim Draper raising fund for entertainment startups
4. MPAA downplay claim of movie piracy at colleges
5. Southern Cross first Aussie VC fir... |
| Nov 14, 2007 | Habbo Hotel Heist Lands Teen in Slammer | A 17-year-old Dutch teenager was arrested by very real police for allegedly stealing over $5800 worth of virtual furniture to trick out his pad in online world Habbo Hotel. Five other teenagers were questioned in connection with the virtual... |
| Nov 14, 2007 | Virtual-Furniture Teen Thievery Ring Nabbed on Habbo | Dutch police have stopped a ring of teenage furniture thieves who were caught stealing virtual chairs and sofas in Habbo Hotel, a 3D virtual world popular in Europe. One 17-year old was arrested, and five younger teenagers were questioned, ... |
| Oct 24, 2007 | Veteran Habbo hits 80m avatars, but virtual worlds are now a bigger game | Habbo has announced it now has 80 million created avatars inside its virtual world. Finland-based Sulake Corporation launched Habbo in 2000 and it remains something of a Virtual World 1.0 aimed at teenagers. But it has since grown into 31 c... |
| Aug 1, 2007 | Disney buys Club Penguin in $700 million deal — virtual worlds have arrived? | Club Penguin, a virtual world for kids, has been bought by the Walt Disney Company. The deal is valued at $700 million: $350 million in cash now, and another $350 million if performance targets are met through 2009.
The company, based in re... |
| Jul 27, 2006 | Massive Korean Social Network CyWorld Launches in US | Those of us in the US can finally get our very own minihompies in the newly launched US version of the South Korean social network CyWorld. Minihompies are now called MiniHomes in the US version and they are these strange little spaces for ... |
| Jul 10, 2006 | Habbo Hotel Microtransacts itself to $30m in Revenue | Habbo Hotel, a Helsinki, Finland virtual world/social network startup, announced a 6 million Euro round of financing today (parent company is Sulake) from Movida Group (a joint venture by SoftBank BB Corp. and Asian Groove). Previous invest... |
