Virtual reality has come and gone over the years, and many spectators are going through the second or third hype phase for the technology. That’s resulted in some skepticism, but VR looks more ...

IMVU, a social networking and instant messaging client which uses 3D avatars to represent its users, announced Thursday that they have hired David Fleck to serve as vice president of marketing for the ...

The online metaverse and social networking site IMVU grew by 44% during the pandemic; it now attracts 7 million active users a month, most of them female or female-identifying and aged from 18 to 24.

Squandered capital, wasted efforts, shattered dreams. Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup, is on a mission to save entrepreneurs from such a fate. Ries, a serial entrepreneur, co-founded IMVU, an ...

IMVU allows you to interact with business partners, employees and customers who frequent IMVU chat rooms. It also provides the means to perform interest-based market research and surveys. One method ...

A 25-year-old man from Baltimore was sentenced Friday to 32 years behind bars after pleading guilty to federal charges that he sexually exploited six young girls he met on the IMVU social networking ...

The line between social networking and gaming is increasingly blurring, and internet incumbents are taking notice. NetEase, the second-largest gaming company in China (behind Tencent), is among a ...

Just three years ago, IMVU was burning cash at a rate of half a million per month and still not profitable. The 3D virtual world, where souped-up avatars run amok, was gaining users but not on a path ...