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David Yu
AS Profile Since taking over the hot seat, Yu has defied City market-watchers who feared the untested techie wasn't up to the job and has led Betfair's continued expansion into new territories, such as Australia and Malta, and into new products including... [12 Oct 2007]
Betfair taps Romania for offshore software skills
News Fletcher said they will be working on a new sporting platform, the booming poker and gaming products and support for the mobile platform. Online betting and gaming company Betfair has set up an offshore software development centre in Romania to... [28 Jun 2007]
US gambling ban challenged from within
News Those sites included ones like BetBug of Toronto; BetWWTS.com of Antigua; Bodog Sportsbook, and Casino and Poker of Costa Rica. Just six months after President Bush signed a law outlawing online gambling, a key Democratic politician has proposed... [27 Apr 2007]
Poker, IM most addictive web apps
News Online poker is the most addictive application on the internet among UK users, according to new research. Users of the most popular online app, Pacific Poker, spend an average of 10 hours and 17 minutes gaming per month. [16 Jan 2007]
Leader: Online gambling on a losing streak
Leader Some poker fans in the US are already talking about a new era of prohibition similar to the 1930s, with the Poker Players Alliance claiming the law will "push poker underground, essentially creating online speakeasies". [02 Oct 2006]
Worm warning: Beware staff surfing, says IDC
News He cited the case of a poker website that placed a Trojan horse on users' PCs when they downloaded the site's help program. Instead, the company recommends closer monitoring of staff internet use, using tools that give management an overview of... [15 Sep 2006]
Has US online gambling had its chips?
News Tuesday's vote on the bill, which most House Democrats opposed and nearly all Republicans endorsed, is designed to target offshore websites that go by names such as BetBug of Toronto; BetWWTS.com of Antigua; Bodog Sportsbook, Casino and Poker of... [12 Jul 2006]
Online casino punters targeted by malware scams
News Earlier this week, Finnish antivirus vendor F-Secure detected a potentially malicious rootkit application, which was being dropped onto users machines from poker community site CheckRaised.com when they downloaded a 'raketracker' tool - which... [17 May 2006]
Leader: Can online gambling clean up its act?
Leader Betfair.com, for example, is rightly held up as a stalwart of responsible, ethical gambling in the UK but even they have opened an operation in Malta in order to run an online poker game. London is to host a summit on online gambling with the... [17 Jan 2006]
Exposed: Dodgy domains spam message boards
News Many of the actual sites link through to more than one established poker site. They then include little more than links through to the websites, backed up with crude testimony such as "This is a great poker site", despite the fact none of the above... [11 Jan 2006]
Exclusive: The headlines you won't see next year
News Online poker: 'This bubble won't burst' say analysts Online ad revenues take a tumble Here we predict the stories that won't - or really shouldn't - appear on the pages of silicon.com over the course of the coming 12 months. [22 Dec 2005]
Ongame Powers High Transaction Online Poker System With MySQL
White Paper Ongame's PokerRoom.com is one of the largest poker sites online. Ongame has developed a platform offering other gaming portals' customers a place at PokerRoom.com tables. When the founders of PokerRoom.com set up shop in their basement in 1999... [14 Nov 2005]
Online casinos face ad crackdown
News But Minister of Culture Tessa Jowell claims a crackdown on online casinos' adverts is necessary to prevent firms from offering enticements, such as free entry to online poker matches, or indicating the value of a prize on offer - both of which are... [10 Nov 2005]
Online poker 'rife with cheats'
News However, that's a suggestion one online poker provider was quick to dismiss - though others in the same industry remained tight-lipped in the face of silicon.com's enquiries. Marcus, whose next book, entitled Dirty Poker, is published in the UK... [04 Nov 2005]
888.com wavers on stock market debut
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. The sector has suffered a loss of confidence of late, in tandem... [30 Sep 2005]
