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News Bad news continues to dominate the online gambling sector as betting sites 888 and Partygaming have been demoted on prestigious FTSE stock indices. Partygaming was unexpectedly dropped from the FTSE 100 outside the index complier's quarterly...
[11 Oct 2006]
News Internet gambling companies are preparing to cash in their dollar chips as the impact of a new US law sinks in, with many preparing to suspend access to real money gambling by US customers. Last week Congress passed the Safe Port Act, which also...
[02 Oct 2006]
News Online casino 888.com has again been linked with the problem of messageboard spam, with one industry body blacklisting the company for what it calls "unethical marketing techniques". The problem appears to be not with the direct actions of 888.com...
[05 May 2006]
News UK online betting companies are urging the European Commission to stop the Italian government blocking access to offshore internet gambling businesses. The Remote Gambling Association (RGA), whose members include 888, Betfair and William Hill, is...
[20 Feb 2006]
News Well-known internet casinos may be knowingly partnering with companies that target internet message boards with spam, as exposed earlier this month by silicon.com. Many of the domains cited by silicon.com appear to be promoting well-known online...
[23 Jan 2006]
News Spammers appear to have found a new target of choice for 2006 - bombarding internet message boards with unprecedented ferocity. The amount of message board spam has been escalating dramatically since mid-2005, according to experts and a search of...
[11 Jan 2006]
News Following the recent IPOs of 888.com and Partygaming.com earlier this year, two more online gaming websites are looking to go public. According to a report in The Independent on Sunday, Isle of Man-based Trident Gaming, which recently acquired...
[10 Oct 2005]
News Online poker site 888.com has made a shaky debut on the London stock exchange on its first day of trading.com priced its stock at 175p for its IPO, earning the company more than £550m. However, the figure is still a far cry from its hoped-for...
[30 Sep 2005]
AS Profile In this year's number nine spot is the man who proved the dot-com days are more than a distant memory. Richard Segal led PartyGaming.com to a multibillion dollar float on the London Stock Exchange earlier this year - setting off a surge of interest...
[23 Sep 2005]
News Online casino 888.com is hoping to cash in by riding the wave of gambling websites going public. The site, which is owned by Cassava Enterprises, is expected to IPO on 1 September. The move will value the company at around £700m, according to a...
[24 Aug 2005]
News After years of impunity, the United States' 190 million mobile telephone subscribers are now more likely than ever to encounter telemarketers - and they are finding there is not a lot they can do to stop this plague of unwanted calls.
[22 Jun 2005]
Comment We at silicon.com recently wrote about the seemingly unstoppable rise of Google - and the upward trajectory of its stock. After hitting a certain milestone, plenty of commentators turned their own 'Is it worth it?
[15 Jun 2005]
News Start-ups that survived the bursting of the Internet bubble are finally finding their pot of gold. Data on initial public offerings from the past year showed that more than half of the companies that went public in 2004 were founded between 1997...
[04 Jan 2005]
whitepaper SDN Communications runs the state's most extensive fiber-optic network, and in addition to telephone service, provides broadband Internet service and video. The challenge for SDN was to create more long-distance options for customers by...
[06 Nov 2004]
News The recently deregulated directory enquiries market has been having a hard time of it of late, with providers cutting staff and being accused of shoddy service by its users. It looks like the New Year hasn't brought any more good news for the 118s...
[09 Jan 2004]
Leader It's been a week of lessons learnt. Whether there was a whole lot of learning going on at Comdex is arguable - staying focused on business issues and not just treating the get-together as a huge jolly may count but then that's hardly enlightened...
[21 Nov 2003]
News With the post-192 switch off directory enquiries (DQ) market shaping up to favour just a few key players, Conduit's 118 888 service has been selling itself as a low cost alternative to BT - only now it seems the price war has turned into a war of...
[30 Sep 2003]
News BT has attacked the UK's telecoms regulatory structure, claiming that regulators do not understand broadband, and that they let competing firms such as Telewest and NTL bypass many of the restrictions placed on BT.
[18 Sep 2003]
News The Professional Contractors Group (PCG) has paid nearly £750,000 in fees to companies owned by some of its most senior figures. The PCG's accounts for 2001 reveal that the PCG paid web design company Webtastic £488,888 in consultancy fees.
[02 May 2002]
News The FTSE was down 0.8 per cent to 5,888, while the Techmark dropped 0.1 per cent to 2,028 just after 09:20(BST). Internet infrastructure provider Telecity also took a sharp fall, down almost 54 per cent to 140p, after posting widening first quarter...
[10 May 2001]
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