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New York's Tribeca Receives Strip Poker Art Demonstration

With the game of poker gaining popularity by the day, it was only a matter of time before an artist brought the game into the world of imagination. New York's Tribeca received a new form of art this week with a strip poker presentation.

National Gambling Monopolies Offer Worst World Cup Betting Odds

Ed Bradley — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 05:52:48 +0000

A new survey shows online gambling monopolies in the EU gave consumers a consistently worse payout via sports betting odds than private sector Internet casinos facing competition.

Ladbrokes Says Return Customers Key to Online Casino Success

Tom Weston — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 23:47:20 +0000

Ladbrokes made proactive moves in management designed to keep the online casino operator healthy, profitable, and dominant in its industry.

No Surprise In Kentucky Where Church Comes Out Against Gambling

The Catholic church has taken to a familiar weapon, scare tactics, in their effort to keep gambling expansion from taking place in Kentucky. Despite the warnings, lawmakers appear poised to approve casinos in the state.

Bettors Not Seeing Much Fluctuation In Super Bowl Line

Bettors have grown accustomed to quickly changing betting lines during the two weeks leading up to the Super Bowl, but this year, the line between the Patriots and Giants has remained stagnant.

Pennsylvania Walks The Line Between Gaming Revenue And Addiction

Pennsylvania lawmakers and the Gaming Control Board in the state have built one of the most successful casino gambling industries in the country in a matter of years, but now, the legislators and gaming regulators are dealing with addiction issues.

Delaware Casinos Put Happy Face on Parlay Sports Betting

Virginia Maddox — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 23:32:54 +0000

Operators of Delaware's three casinos are trying to make the best of a bad situation after a court ruling left the state's sports betting plan stripped of most of its options.

Forfeited Online Casino Money Offered by US to Kaplan Customers

A.J. Maldonado — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 02:47:30 +0000

A required US government post gives ex-players at BetOnSports a chance to claim the millions forfeited by the online casino's founder.

News: Where does the GAME customer go if the High Street closes?

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 07:00:00 +0000

While the future of UK specialist retailer GAME is uncertain, many in the retail community across Europe are beginning to ask where customers will migrate if the chain reduces its presence - or disappears entirely - from the High Street.

Data from analyst firm NPD suggests what many might expect - the average GAME consumer is more likely to shop online than anywhere else, with Amazon singled out as one of the most popular retailers for regular GAME customers.

"We were in Europe talking to folks and given some of the publicity that has been out about the struggles of GAME the retailer, we were asked, if GAME goes away, where do we think that consumer will go?" said Anita Frazier, analyst at NPD.

Touchgrind BMX Now Available on the App Store

Costas Stephanides — Thu, 26 May 2011 14:32:20 +0000

Illusion Labs today announced the Touchgrind BMX App, based on the popular skateboarding game Touchgrind, is now available on the App Store for iPhone and iPod touch.

Unity Makes a Nove to LG’s TV’s

Arjan Olsder — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:38:09 +0000

It seems LG is in for some serious gaming as Unity has expanded support for their development tools to LG. LG has already been running a dedicated TV app store on their connected TV’s and Blu Ray...

More mobile advertising acquisitions means more investment in mobile

jamescoops — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:01:27 +0000

So mobile internet is finally hitting the big time - with the "Youtube moment" at the end of the last year being the acquisition of admob, closely followed by Apple buying up Quattro Wireless at the start of this year.

However, it's not just the ad networks that are getting snapped up - already M&A is moving down up value chain into the agency space and down the value chain into the ad optimizers.

Firstly, RingRing Media, a mobile ad agency and media buyer in London got snapped up by Amobee Systems a few days ago. The rumoured price was £12m - not bad for a company founded in 2008 and grown to £2m a month in gross revenue with only small investments. Congratulations to Ben and Harry the co-founders at RingRing.

Secondly, we learn that the ad optimizer/ ad network aggregator AdMarvel has been bought by Opera. Ad Marvel started life as a B2C play called Frengo and spun off a service that helps mobile sites and apps to manage their ad inventory through analytics, ad serving and real-time pricing data.

With Mary Meeker predicting that mobile is the big tech trend of the next decade we can expect more acquisitions like this over the next year, which means more investment at the other end of the pipeline. VCs and other investors will be more willing to move into mobile now that they can see the big exits happening and real value being created.

So what are the opportunities in the mobile ad space for startups and investors? Here's a few ideas:

New types of mobile advertising networks - the first wave of ad networks have all been based on a fairly straightforward CPC, banner and text ad driven model served over a general range of sites. If you look at the PC-web there are a huge range of different types of ad networks out there, often targeting very specific verticals or offering particular types of inventory. Is there room for a vertically-focused ad network on mobile? Similarly, the likes of Greystripe have focused on full-screen rich media ads, but there have got to be other new formats and ideas that can work on mobile.

Mobile agencies - with mobile advertising hotting up all the big digital agencies will need to burnish their mobile credentials. The recession probably held back acquisitions last year but expect 2010 to lead to more M&A in this space.

Mobile commerce - retail is still the major un-charted territory on the mobile internet and mobile affiliate marketing is still very under-developed. At the same time people are becoming more willing to buy on their mobiles and this will create opportunities for new players.

That's it for now shout out in the comments if you have any views on what the opportunities are.

Exclusive Slots Tournament at Europa Casino

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:48:00 +0000

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2nd place: €200

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New from LadyLucks: Knight Quest

admin — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 16:02:56 +0000

LadyLucks mobile casino have just launched their latest touch compatible mobile slots game: Knight Quest! Knight Quest is a 5 reel, 30 payline mobile slots game with a distinctive medieval charm! The game has a progressive jackpot that gradually builds up over time until somebody wins it. Knight Quest has only been live a few [...]