In successive rounds each firm battles four others, run automatically by the simulation, to dominate a virtual market.
During the first 180 days a generic drug is on the market, the generic company has a virtual market monopoly for its formulation.
The hottest virtual market around today seems to be in Entropia Universe, a space bound MMO best known for having an actual working economy based on real money, which results in headlines like this.
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Lehdonvirta has been studying the economics of the virtual goods market for years.
Sports Tradex, founded by Houston based CEO Benjamin Lipson is a virtual futures market or stock market for teams and players.
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Contrary to utopian social planning, free-market virtual economies will emerge spontaneously rather than through design and the ultimate victorious currency will be a market-based competitor that can move seamlessly across multiple grids.
RationalCraft brought its surreal Winscape virtual window to market when the Wii was virtually the only game in town for affordable motion tracking.
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Later on, Jeffrey Rayport and John Sviokla applied the idea to the virtual world, the world of information, arguing that managers must pay attention to the way in which value chains work in both the tangible world of the marketplace and the virtual world of the market space.
Compare and contrast: South Africa with its overregulated and overtaxed economy and 25% unemployment, and Hong Kong, with its free-market ethos, a virtual flat tax and booming businesses.
The virtual shutdown of the subprime mortgage market and a widening of spreads on jumbo mortgage loans have further reduced the demand for housing, while foreclosures are adding to the already-elevated inventory of unsold homes.
Zynga will gain insights to virtual goods sales in the lucrative Japan market.
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Hiro estimates that the potential market size for sales of virtual items in the U.S. is in the billions of dollars, but that issues like too many virtual currencies are roadblocks for potential customers.
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Phobias may represent the biggest market for video-game and virtual-reality therapy, and clinics are popping up worldwide.
Global market volatility brought the market for new listings to a virtual halt over summer but they are expected to pick up again in the final months of this year.
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Without reeling off any more facts and acquisition figures, the key point to register is that wherever you look, China is linking physical assets to virtual trades, not just to feed gas market liquidity, but to rebalance WTI and Brent for oil.
Zakos is the chief developer of MyCybertwin, the virtual agents geared towards the small-medium business market.
So we're absolutely benefiting from the fact that China's gone from a virtual non-player in the seaborne metallurgical coal market to almost a fifth of that market in just two years.
Outfit7 hopes to capture the mobile market which already has multiple offerings such as Virtual Pets by Wiky, and All 20 Virtual Pets by DS Effects, as well as Touch Pets Cats by ngmoco, Inc.
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Furthermore, opportunistic investors are now salivating at the prospects for creating monstrous gains via shorting the market thinking that a free fall from these levels is a virtual slam dunk.
It is the Goliath of the Web, with search, e-mail, e-commerce, instant messaging, classified ads, and even its own virtual planet with Google Earth -- all adding up to one mega-market cap.
Of course, virtual world game designers have a right to design socialist economies just as much as free market economies.
Using the statistical projections for those teams simulating this season 3, 000 times, the Yanks, Red Sox and Rangers are now virtual locks to make the playoffs, while the Tampa Bay Rays, a small-market party crasher three times since 2008, got a healthy bump as well.
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Alcatel-Lucent, which owns Bell Labs, isn't committing to a time to market for the application, but analysts say the first uses of gesture control and virtual conferencing on wireless networks and handsets will arrive late next year.
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