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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Worlds.com CEO Thom Kidrin seems like a rather opportunistic chap. He has a patent on a “scalable virtual world client-server chat system” and a “system and method for enabling users to interact in a ...

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 ...