high street betting
Sort by: Relevance | Date
Internet betting a dead cert for William Hill
News Betting chain William Hill has reported half-year earnings showing its online growth outstripping the rise in its high street earnings more than four-fold.silicon.com Retail & Leisure... [01 Aug 2008]
William Hill profits hit by online problems
News Technical difficulties with a new online platform wiped £10.6m from the operating profit of high street betting chain William Hill's interactive channel for the year ended 1 January... [27 Feb 2008]
Betfair betting engine goes supersonic
Case Study Betfair has developed a new core betting engine that can process staggering volumes of bets per second and significantly reduce the cost of each transaction. Betfair is an online betting exchange - a... [15 Nov 2007]
Betbrokers fancies Sapphire's form
Case Study The bet broker and clearing house, based in London's Canary Wharf, was launched in 2003 and offers punters one account to access all the markets and the best available prices for any sporting event without the need to manage a range of... [19 Sep 2007]
Richard Segal
AS Profile Here's betting this won't be the last we hear of him. Segal also wins plaudits for taking the company to its lucrative IPO without the backing of a bigger high-street brand and for... [23 Sep 2005]
William Hill hits out at online betting exchanges
News UK high-street bookie William Hill has hit out at online betting exchanges Betfair and Betdaq, accusing the latter of spreading "scurrilous insinuations" about its fixed odds rivals and... [17 Nov 2004]
China going for own flavour of 3G in 2005
News The current betting is that licences will go to China Mobile and China Unicom, with a chance that additional licences will go to the two fixed-line operators in China. According to the Wall Street... [23 Jun 2004]
Summer of sport swells web bookies' coffers
News Unlike high-street betting shops, placing a bet online is (obviously) done remotely, so a teenager with a desire to gamble could always do so with an adult's card. But under-18s being... [25 Jul 2002]
Online bookies: The real World Cup winners?
Comment True, if you fancy a punt a week before - or are organised enough throughout the tournament - you will still be able to pop into the nearest high street bookie in advance of match day and place a bet but... [17 May 2002]
Europe not a sure thing for Sportingbet
News According to McIver, only three countries in the world have betting shops on the high street - Belgium, Ireland and the UK. Dan Stevenson, analyst at Jupiter MMXI, agreed that the real... [29 Jan 2002]
The Bloor Perspective: Public sector IT, e-tail fulfilment, Radombet.com
Comment The whole idea of the site, launched last month, is that the user places their stake on their chosen event and then "randomises" their selection giving them no control whatsoever over their final betting selection. [12 Mar 2001]
Public sector IT, e-tail fulfilment, Randombet.com
Comment The whole idea of the site, launched last month, is that the user places their stake on their chosen event and then "randomises" their selection giving them no control whatsoever over their final betting selection. [11 Mar 2001]
Netbet plans stock market gamble
News Netbet, the UK's only online betting service is about to take a bet itself and launch on the stock market. Analysts were reluctant to predict whether the move will succeed, claiming there is little history of successful... [23 Feb 1999]
Keep updated for stories matching high street betting via RSS
