The business of predicting the future has always been at best a very precarious one. I’m sure at some stage almost everybody will have seen predictions from the 1950s or 1960s where we are all supposed to be traveling in flying cars by now and have personal domestic robots. There are far too many reasons [...]

The English Premiership saw some fairly unpredictable results this weekend. Yesterday we had Manchester United beaten by Fulham with a score line of 3-0. Perhaps less shocking was but still a big surprise nonetheless was Portsmouth beating Liverpool 2-0. Liverpool have been struggling very badly by their normal standards but this result was surprising all [...]

The government in Australia is to begin looking at the introduction of mandatory filters on Internet service providers again early next year. Online casinos are one of the forms of content that is likely to be part of the filtering on this system. Online freedom advocates are already outraged by the idea of placing this [...]

As we come to the end of the group stage of this year’s UEFA Champions League, sources in the online bookmaking sector of the industry are suggesting that soccer’s premier club competition has been seeing stronger than expected batting action this year. Because of the global economic downturn, it was expected that numbers would be [...]

While there is no doubt that the World Cup will attract very heavy betting when it actually come closer to the time of getting underway next year, the level of betting on today’s draw for the group stage did take quite a few people by surprise. Traditionally, there has always been a relatively modest amount [...]

Wednesday November 25th 2009 saw some nice positive movement across the online casino sector. As a whole, the sector experienced a nice positive set of midweek numbers with the majority of the major brands experiencing gains and the average certainly very positive. Let’s take a look at some of the companies that exemplify this trend. [...]

The stock price of Paddy Power decreased on Thursday November 19th 2009. The company has had a bit of an up and down time of things recently and it has been difficult to identify a particular trend for the company over any significant time frame. The volume of trading for the company has also been [...]

There was definitely a more positive sentiment from investors in the market for the online casino sector today. As regular readers will know, we’ve seen quite a bit of volatility in the market recently and in particular the online casino sector has suffered from this. Today brought some decent rises in the share price of [...]

It was a very strong end to the week for the sector as a whole. Virtually all the big players saw a nice boost  in their share price and the sentiment from investors was very positive. William Hill shares went up on Friday November 6th 2009. At the day’s beginning the share price stood at [...]

During last year, one particular topic that got a lot of attention was the idea that the introduction of real time gaming and live dealers. Now as we approach the end of 2009, these developments have not materialized to the extent that most people thought they would. What are the reasons behind this and why [...]