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888.com joins casino IPO wave with £700m float
News Online casino 888.com is hoping to cash in by riding the wave of gambling websites going public. Cassava, owned by two Israeli brothers, has a number of casinos in its portfolio, including Pacific Poker.com, reportedly the largest casino by visitor... [24 Aug 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. During 888.com's first day as a public traded company, shares... [30 Sep 2005]
Web casino blacklisted for 'messageboard spam'
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]
Casinos turn blind-eye to message board spam
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]
IT contractors: This is where your money goes
News Susie Hughes, who is the spokeswoman for PCG in addition to being the director of Susan Hughes Associates, confirmed the figures and told silicon.com: "All of the contracts were awarded by the PCG board of directors in a fair manner. [02 May 2002]
118 888 drops 'half the price of BT' claim
News The spokesman told silicon.com: "If they want to focus people's minds on price, we're happy to do that, because we will win. With the post-192 switch off directory enquiries (DQ) market shaping up to favour just a few key players, Conduit's 118 888... [30 Sep 2003]
The curse of telemarketing plagues mobiles
News Ben Charny writes for CNET News.com Mobile phone user Ben Wexlar, who received a telemarketing call, wondered in a News.com forum: "What can be done about this? Gallen's Institute for Media and Communications Management, wrote to News.com: "From... [22 Jun 2005]
Two more online games sites prepare to go public
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]
Exposed: Dodgy domains spam message boards
News Domains such as 888.typo7.com, e-casinoroom.com, HobbyWorkshop.com, onlinepokerment.com, TopSitesRanking.com and g4h5.com all appear in bogus postings which reference online gaming. The Whois information for every single one of those websites named... [11 Jan 2006]
Tech IPOs reanimated in '04
News 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 and 2000 - the height of the dot-com investment bubble. [04 Jan 2005]
Online gamblers demoted on FTSE
News Other online gambling businesses are also having a tough time on the stock market, following the announcement two weeks ago of new US legislation making it unlawful for credit card companies to collect payments for transactions with US online... [11 Oct 2006]
Offshore web-betting blacklist row erupts
News A spokesman for the RGA told silicon.com: "We were pretty horrified. UK online betting companies are urging the European Commission to stop the Italian government blocking access to offshore internet gambling businesses. [20 Feb 2006]
Tony Hallett's After These Messages: Online poker
Comment We at silicon.com recently wrote about the seemingly unstoppable rise of Google - and the upward trajectory of its stock. Sure, we get the odd press release come through the silicon.com newsdesk but these are mainly about the use of technology at... [15 Jun 2005]
Leader: Learning business lessons the hard way
Leader To its credit, it fixed the problem pretty quickly and then this week - albeit after some silicon.com prompting - it emailed its registered users to say there had been a problem. It's been a week of lessons learnt. [21 Nov 2003]
Richard Segal
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]
