Reuters Opens First Ever Virtual News Bureau in Online World - Second Life.Reuters Enters One of the World's Largest Virtual Economies NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of -- Reuters (LSE LSE - Language Sensitive Editor :RTR RTR Ready To Run RTR Rundfunk & Telekom Regulierungs Gmbh RTR Rotor RTR Radio e Televisiun Rumantscha (Romansh Radio and Television, Switzerland) RTR Response Time Reporter RTR Ready To Race RTR Ready to Roll ) (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :RTRSY), the global information company, is opening the world's first virtual news bureau in Second Life. Created by Linden Lab Linden Lab is a privately held company based in San Francisco, California. Its CEO is Philip Rosedale, former CTO of Real Networks. Mitch Kapor is on the board of directors. The company was founded in 1999. The name comes from Linden Street, the street it was originally based on. , Second Life is an online world inhabited by hundreds of thousands of users worldwide and is one of the world's most popular virtual economies. The opening of the bureau is part of Reuters strategy to embrace new digital platforms to deliver next generation news and information. Tom Glocer Tom Glocer (born 8 October 1959) is the CEO of Reuters. External links
Reuters reporter Adam Pasick, who will be known as Adam Reuters in Second Life, will serve as virtual bureau chief. He said: "Like any reporter, I'll cover Second Life events as they happen, interview residents and uncover interesting stories. Reuters capability and experience in news and financial reporting will be valuable to the thousands of people who need to make decisions about how they run their businesses inside Second Life. Whatever the news, Reuters will be there." Second Life residents will be able to keep up with the latest news by using a new feature dubbed the Reuters News Center, similar to a real world mobile device. Users will be able to carry this free Heads Up Display (HUD Hud (h  d), a pre-Qur'anic prophet of Islam. Hud unsuccessfully exhorted his South Arabian people, the Ad, to worship the One God. ) carrying live Reuters feeds of real-life and Second Life news wherever they go in the virtual world. In addition, residents will be able to visit the Reuters Atrium, a town hall community center, where they can meet to discuss events, see the latest images and videos of the day, or just chat with their friends. A button on their Reuters News Center will alert them to discussions and instantly teleport them to chat areas in the Reuters Atrium from wherever they are in Second Life. The Reuters Atrium will open on Wednesday, October 18, 2006. To view all of Reuters Second Life news stories, visit http://secondlife.reuters.com. Note to Editors: Second Life is a virtual 3D world where the best content is user-created - the houses, the furniture, the clothes that people wear, and more has been built by its 850,000 users. Once created, objects can be bought and sold using the Second Life virtual currency, known as Linden Linden, city, United States Linden, city (1990 pop. 36,701), Union co., NE N.J., in the New York metropolitan area; inc. 1925. During the first half of the 20th cent. Dollars. These can be sold for real U.S. dollars, so that users can make real money from their Second Life activity. There are several thousand virtual retailers and real estate developers running real businesses, making real profits. Second Life is also a meeting place and a playground for artists and other creative people. About Reuters: Reuters is the world's largest international news and financial information source, reaching over 1 billion people a day. Known for its speed, accuracy and independence, Reuters content powers newsrooms and financial markets around the world. Reuters distributes its text, data, pictures and video to professionals and direct to consumers via online and digital services. Founded in 1851, Reuters Group has 15,300 employees in 89 countries and had annual revenues of u2.4 billion/$4.4 billion in 2005. For more information and the latest news, visit www.reuters.com. |
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