Entering your virtual world, with a mobile phone
Our virtual world experience so far has been dominated by Second Life and other PC-oriented games.
Now, virtual worlds are going mobile.
Gemini Mobile, a San Mateo company, says that hundreds of thousands of Japanese are subscribers to S!Town, a mobile virtual world with a 3D interface it has built that lets users shop, chat and build custom property, among other things — all with an avatar of course.
Today the company announces it has just raised $20 million from Goldman Sachs.
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Matt launched VentureBeat in September of 2006, with the realization that no one else was covering the entrepreneurial and tech innovation scene with the velocity or depth that he was. Prior to founding VentureBeat, he covered venture capital for the San Jose Mercury News from 2001 to 2006. In 2002, Matt was awarded "Journalist of the Year" by the Northern California Society of Professional Journalists. Prior to working at the Merc, he was a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in Bonn, Germany from 1995 to 1998, and a writer for the Washington Post in 1994. Matt holds a PhD in Government and an MA in German and European Studies from Georgetown University. In addition to VentureBeat, Matt is also the Executive Producer of DEMO, the leading launchpad event for emerging technologies.
