Video-calling app Tango adds Instagram-like filters & cute animal avatars

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Popular video-chat application Tango has spiced up its iOS and Android apps with fun (and gimmicky) new features including video filters, avatars, read receipts, and more.

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Anyone remember Linden Lab? How about its game, Second Life? Well, it was the talk of the middle of the last decade (and winner of a 2008 Emmy award), and it’s making moves again. It’s just announced the acquisition of …

Mixamo bets video game players will pay money for virtual motion

August 23, 2010 7:00 AM Dean Takahashi

Virtual goods have become a runaway industry as gamers the world over show they’re willing to pay real money for virtual room decorations, pets, swords and cars. Now a startup called Mixamo is betting that gamers will pay for virtual …

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Linden Lab acquires LittleTextPeople for new projects this year

Mixamo bets video game players will pay money for virtual motion