Wednesday, August 31. 2005
DW-WORLD.DE
Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: Germans spend billions of euros each year on gambling
After a slow start, the gambling business in Germany has begun to boom. The growth will likely be accelerated by an expected liberalization in ...
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scotsman.com THE surge in demand for online gaming has helped temper a fall in first-half profitability at book-making group Paddy Power. A run of bad results on horse-racing led to pre-tax profits falling to £12.59 million, from £12.79m, over the same period the ...
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Tuesday, August 30. 2005
BETCORP, a quoted Australian internet gambling operator, has appointed KBC Peel Hunt as adviser on a possible listing on the London Stock Exchange.
The company, formerly called Consolidated Gaming Corporation, said that it had decided to investigate a dual listing because London ...
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Monday, August 29. 2005
CAESARS PALACE is the first sports book to offer fantasy football props, adding a new look to TDs and run yards.
Fantasy football has a real chance to be the next big breakthrough in sportts wagering.
"No doubt about it," said Mike Colbert, race and sports ...
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Sunday, August 28. 2005
Las Vegas Review-Journal
The future of professional sports in Las Vegas may be brighter than we thought. East Coast media report the 9,431-seat Mohegan Sun Arena, home of the WNBA's Connecticut Sun, fits perfectly with the megacasino next door. If fans run into a bad game, they ...
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Saturday, August 27. 2005
ID THIEF ARRESTED
Crook funded his online gambling from other people's accounts
There was another reminder on the importance of safeguarding personal information this week. More than 100 Central Illinois residents had their identities stolen and their money diverted by ...
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Friday, August 26. 2005
Online poker group 888.com is set to launch its £700m London stock market flotation next Thursday in a move triggering massive windfalls for its Israeli founders and British chief executive.
Boss John Anderson, formerly of Ladbrokes and also head of the Burford property group, is ...
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Trafalgar Gaming, the owners of the 32red casino site, will begin marketing for its US$160m IPO on the London Stock Exchange's AIM in the next week. Gibraltar-based Trafalgar is expected to begin its road show in London with the aim of raising around US$45m in new money from ...
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Thursday, August 25. 2005
There have always been investors who aren't afraid to roll the dice. Over the last 12 months, investors in online poker's popularity rode that gamble to big payoffs.
But with research already suggesting that online poker can't sustain its explosive growth, the question has been ...
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Wednesday, August 24. 2005
BLOOMBERG NEWS
Portugal will probe online gaming company BetandWin.com Interactive Entertainment AG's sponsorship of the country's national soccer league after doubts were raised over its legality.
Vienna-based BetandWin.com signed a four-year accord with the league ...
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Tuesday, August 23. 2005
U.S. Handed Deadline on Internet Gaming A World Trade Organization arbitrator today gave the United States until April 3 to end discrimination against foreign online betting companies following a complaint by the Caribbean island of Antigua.
WTO judges ruled April 7 that the ...
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Monday, August 22. 2005
Chartwell Launches Poker Community
CALGARY, ALBERTA Chartwell Technology Inc. (CA:CWH), a leading provider of gaming software systems to the online and remote gaming industry is pleased to announce the launch of PokerNexus, Chartwell's community poker offering ...
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ANTIGUA SUN
ST JOHN’S, Antigua (CMC) – Antigua & Barbuda has welcomed the latest World Trade Organization (WTO) ruling in its Internet gaming case against the United States.
Washington has until next April to comply with a ruling about US restrictions on cross ...
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Sunday, August 21. 2005
FT.com
"About to bluff. About to raise," read the tagline for a series of advertisements from the gambling website Bodog.com that recently ran in Esquire, the US men's magazine. The same could be said of the hesitant dance between the booming online gambling industry ...
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Saturday, August 20. 2005
IN BRIEF / From Bloomberg News
A World Trade Organization arbitrator gave the United States until April 3 to end discrimination against foreign online betting companies after a complaint by the Caribbean island of Antigua.
WTO judges ruled April 7 that a U.S. ban, in the ...
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