For people within the industry, the daily cut and thrust of what is happening with regulations in different jurisdictions or following company news can be all consuming. When this kind of perspective is combined with the somewhat claustrophobic atmosphere created by the industry, it is easy to forget that in the greater scheme of things [...]

As we reported here a while back the Christmas season is a big one for the online casino industry. One can generally expect to see new seasonally branded games released as well as re-branding of existing games and on top of all this it is a big season for extra bonuses on top of the [...]

The online casino industry has seen a lot of upheaval over the last couple of years and this has been particularly prevalent in the area of consolidation. As the Christmas season starts to kink into high gear, the industry is buzzing with talk of a merger between Bwin and Partygaming. As individual companies both of [...]

It would seem that recession has hit everything to varying degrees. A while back we had the third quarter numbers from the publicly quoted online casino companies. As one would expect the numbers were down and with a few notable exceptions the markets reacted fairly negatively. This is perfectly normal but what was perhaps overblown [...]

The old refrain goes that ”’tis the season to be jolly” but for anyone in business it is more than likely the season to be busy and if you’re lucky, really busy! For any business that is in any way connected with the Christmas season, the global economic downturn has put even more pressure than [...]

While all the talk over the weekend was about the 6 month delay in the enforcement of the 2006 online gambling ban in the U.S., the markets did not react in any particularly strong fashion to the news when they opened today. Most of the major brand names within the online casino industry had a [...]

One of the critical infrastructure elements for websites that deal with money is security. In recent times there have been a number of high profile incidents where personal financial details of large quantities of people have been stolen when the security on the databases of large websites have been hacked. Obviously, online casino and gambling [...]

The English premiership is always very attractive to punters from a sports betting point of view. That said, this weekend’s games have seen a higher than usual level of interest from the sports betting market. It is unclear as to what exact combination of different elements have conspired to create the situation. For example, there [...]

With all of the uncertainty that we have been experiencing in the online casino sector recently, the variable of uncertainty itself is the only thing that anybody has been able to rely on. 888 is a company that has suffered significantly from this uncertainty. We’ve seen some very lethargic sentiment from investors at some times [...]

The markets have tended to treat the online casino sector with some disdain in recent times. We have seen quite a bit of a mess with regards to the type of trading that has been experienced across many of the major brands and names for the sector. Ultimately, a lot of this uncertainty comes down [...]