Failure to effectively manage its joint venture with Playtech has been identified as one of the biggest risks William Hill faces this year, Britain’s biggest bookmaker has revealed during its annual results this morning.
Read More . . .Sportingbet will apply for licences in Greece and Spain in a bid to maintain its leading position in those markets, suggesting a move towards a dot.country business model in the next year.
Read More . . .Last year, more than 50,000 users logged onto Intrade, the world's largest prediction market site, to bet on "markets" ranging from elections to the Academy Awards.
Read More . . .William Hill Online has been granted a court injunction against Playtech, its own joint venture partner, as a defensive measure to protect its rights following speculation the software supplier entered merger discussions with rival Ladbrokes.
Read More . . .Could online gaming companies be among the stockmarket investments to make in 2011? The listing of Betfair at the end of October on a fancy multiple and the $3.3 billion megamerger between bwin and PartyGaming.
Read More . . .Ly Sam, a Vietnamese American, has filed a lawsuit demanding the Palazzo Club inside the 5-star Sheraton Saigon Hotel in Ho Chi Minh City to pay out US$55.5 million in cash prize he said he won in 2009.
Read More . . .Ladbrokes will look to build on its growing egaming profits this year with online, mobile and international expansion marked out by chief executive Richard Glynn as key areas of development.
Read More . . .Unibet has recorded 15% growth over the previous quarter, the Swedish operator announced this morning in its preliminary figures for Q4 and for the year ended December 2010.
Read More . . .Online gambling firms operating in the Netherlands are opposed to government plans to auction a limited number of operating licences in 2012, the Financieele Dagblad reports on Wednesday.
Read More . . .WSOP.fr, the poker site created via the partnership between Caesars Interactive Entertainment (CIE) and Groupe Lucien Barrière, has been awarded an online gaming licence by French regulator ARJEL.
Read More . . .It's not that the NDP justice critic can't stop, his problem is that "outdated" sports betting laws have pushed the billion dollar industry underground and into the arms of organized crime.
Read More . . .The London Capital Group (LCG) could be forced to pay compensation to the tune of £7.7m after a new assessment was made by the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) with regards to customer complaints about commission rebating of a spot FX fund set up in the first half of 2009.
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