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OMC users: grids rise in 2011, how France's Free will reinvent mobile, and shock horror! Berlin VC invests in Italian startup. Is this the start of something?
• OMC users: grids rise in 2011.
The number of people using the hypergrid-friendly OMC currently rose by a factor of five over the course of 2011, from just over 500 people at the start of the year, to 2,859 at the end. Meanwhile, the number of grids where the currency is available grew from 18 to 32. The OMC, or Open Metaverse Currency, is a virtual currency from Austria-based VirWoX that can be used to buy and sell virtual goods on OpenSim grids. The OMC is fully convertible, and can be bought and sold for US dollars, British pounds, Euros, and Swiss francs, and can also be traded for Second Life's Linden dollars. The OMC has an exchange rate of around 270 OMC to US $1. The OMC isn't transferred from grid to grid - instead, it's kept in an online VirWoX account, requiring each transaction made inside a virtual world to be verified on their website.
 Read » [hypergridbusiness.com]
• How France's Free will reinvent mobile.
Xavier Niel, the maverick founder of Iliad, the company behind Free.fr broadband service, is about to redefine the mobile landscape, perhaps as early as tomorrow, when he launches the much-talked about Free Mobile. In doing so, he will redefine what the idea of a carrier in the 21st century is, thanks to a radical new approach. Utilizing a blend of Wi-Fi, HSPA+ 3G, femtocells and its all-fiber backbone, Free will offer unlimited voice, texting and data over the mobile networks.
Read » [gigaom.com]
• Shock horror! Berlin VC invests in Italian startup. Is this the start of something?
Point Nine Capital has made a seed investment into Cibando, an Italian startup which operates a popular iPhone application that makes it easy to find the best restaurants in Rome, Milan, Florence and other cities in Italy. Fabio Pezzotti, one of Italy's more successful Internet entrepreneurs and angel investors, also participated in the round. Terms of the investment were not disclosed.
Read » [techcrunch.com]
Author: Regular Expression, for AZ10.com ~ 5 Feb 2012
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