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 [...]

One of the things that all business sectors have in common is a desire to guess where trends might be going in the immediate future. The online casino industry is no different in this regard and we have now entered a time where the industry as a whole is trying to do this on two [...]

The tactic of prohibition has something very profound in common with the tactic of military occupation. Throughout history circumstances have arisen at one stage or another where both seemed to be a god idea to deal with a very particular scenario. There was never any shortage of examples of why and how either of these [...]

It was a a somewhat mixed end to the week’s trading for the main players in the online casino industry which was very much in spirit with the type of trading we had been seeing during the course of the week William Hill finished the week with a lift 187.70 was the valuation of the [...]

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 [...]

One thing that has expanded immensely over the last few years in the online casino industry is the number of games available. There has been a massive explosion in the number of different games that people can play. Granted, a lot of these games are either variations on traditional games or simply rebranded versions but [...]

There is no doubt that the uncertain regulatory conditions for the online casino industry have caused many problems in many countries. When commentators talk about this they usually tend to focus on the direct problems that this has caused. One of the the larger problems that this has created is something that does not get [...]

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 [...]

The entire online casino industry is buzzing about one story today. The Obama Administration has delayed the full enforcement of UIGEA for a 6 month period. Before this announcement there had been a tricky situation developing where the momentum behind Barney Frank’s proposed bill to regulate online gambling had been growing and at the same [...]

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 [...]