Poker pulls back PartyGaming’s profit rise to flatline
PartyGaming plc, parent company of Party Poker and Party Bingo, has reported flat revenues of $117.7m (£78.3m) for the third quarter of 2008. Although the company’s casino, sports betting and bingo products reported strong growth it was offset by declining income from the once big-earning poker arm. But despite a rising US dollar impacting revenues, [...]
SAZKA checks out online casino market with play-for-fun pilot
The Czech Republic’s oldest and biggest lottery operator is launching a play-for-fun online casino ahead of proposed law changes it hopes will legalise and regulate wider internet gaming.
New legislation is expected to be placed before the Czech parliament before the end of 2008. With this in mind SAZKA has recently been heavily promoting its online [...]
Las Vegas Sands sets its sights on Indian casinos
Las Vegas Sands, a US company with the biggest casino portfolio in Macau, may spend $12bn (£6bn) on a strip of casinos in India, chairman Sheldon Adelson announced today. But Mr Adelson, speaking to reporters gathered for the opening of the new Four Seasons hotel on the Special Administrative region’s Cotai Strip, said any development [...]
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