I just realized that this hasn’t been cross-posted here, but following on the official press release and the coverage on other sites, this has also been posted on Hypergrid Business:

Press Release: ExpatFinder.com & 3D Mirror World Twinity create First Expat Virtual Relocation Service

ExpatFinder.com and Twinity.com offer the first virtual relocation service with pre-arrival tours of virtual Berlin and expatriate meetings to help relocating individuals, expatriates and their families.

Singapore/Berlin, November 2009 – ExpatFinder.com, the Singapore-headquartered worldwide website today launched the first supportive virtual world relocation service to help expats and relocating individuals prior to their relocation or during their life overseas.

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Check their site for the full text.

Just a brief announcement that Metaversum has been selected as an AlwaysOn Global 250 winner this year!

Our funding round was announced a while ago, so this post a bit late, but I wanted to acknowledge some of the other sites that have picked it up, in addition to TechCrunch’s coverage. (more…)

TechCrunch has a piece on our latest funding round. (more…)

Metaversum secures financing round for international expansion with new and existing investors.

Berlin/Potsdam, 7 July 2009 – Metaversum GmbH, developer of Twinity, the world’s first mirror world – a virtual world made of real people and real places – has announced the successful closure of another round of financing. (more…)

After last week’s announcement of the upcoming release of virtual Singapore, we’ve seen good echoes online. (more…)

With its 3D online world Twinity, Metaversum is one of the 100 most promising private technology companies in Europe. (more…)

We just wanted to highlight some of the sites that picked up the news on our funding in the Co-space program sponsored by the multi-agency IDM programme office hosted by the MDA of Singapore.

• Virtual Worlds Forum
• MMPOW
• Virtual Worlds News
• Virtual Office Wire

There are really two big highlights from this past week to report:

• Metaversum’s Co-spaceTM funding
• 50000 members on Twinity!

Have a good weekend!

Metaversum, developer and operator of the 3D online world Twinity, has been awarded funding from the mutli-agency IDM R&D Programme Office hosted by the Media Development Authority of Singapore to develop geo-tagging and geo-located media streaming in Twinity. In another part of this project Metaversum will also development advanced virtual city building tools to facilitate the construction of virtual Singapore in Twinity. Metaversum has already begun signing up local media, content, and brand partners in preparation for next year’s launch of virtual Singapore in Twinity. (more…)