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Revenue Figures For 888 Holdings Suggest Online Poker Is Popular

Online poker hit a snag in the US last year when three major companies were indicted for violating the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act. 2011 revenue figures from 888 Holdings shows that online poker is popular as ever.

Online Casino Bill Shows NFL Making US Government Policy

Ed Bradley — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:09:47 +0000

The NFL flexed its political muscle today, getting an attachment to Barney Frank's online casino bill assuring that sports betting will remain illegal on the Internet.

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.

Online Gambling Approved By Iowa Senate Subcommittee

Online gambling moved one step closer to reality for Iowans on Monday after a Senate subcommittee unanimously passed a bill that would regulate Internet gambling.

NFL Power Rankings Week Seventeen: Packers Go Wire To Wire On Top

The Green Bay Packers have accomplished something no other team has ever done, the Packers have gone wire to wire as the top team in our Power Rankings for an entire regular season.

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.

Delaware Down and Out as Court Won't Hear Sports Betting Case

K.C. Carmichael — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 03:59:45 +0000

The likely last chance for Delaware's full sports betting program to be able to legally proceed was denied as the US court of appeals responsible refused to rehear the case.

Angelina Jolie and Online Casinos Dissed by UK Ad Authority

Matt Miller — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 20:33:12 +0000

The Advertising Standards Authority of the United Kingdom has shown not only online casinos get the brunt of their unimaginative and humorless enforcement as actress Angelina Jolie sees a movie ad featuring her pulled.

News: Boost for GAME as it secures official Vita launch

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:19:00 +0000

Troubled retail chain GAME should see a rise in hardware sales next week, as it hosts the official launch of Sony's new handheld, the PlayStation Vita.

GAME's Oxford Street branch will be the location for the official midnight launch, complete with a signing session with WipEout 2048 developers and goody bags. The lucky gamer at the head of the queue will receive a year's supply of Vita titles. PlayStation Vita Rooms will also host a party for the queuing fans.

Across the country other flagship GAME and Gamestation stores will open at midnight on February 21.

Chillingo unleash Red Ball 3 onto App Store

Costas Stephanides — Sat, 28 May 2011 18:44:36 +0000

Awesome Physics Platformer Rolls its way on to the App Store

PS Vita Games Starting at $5

Arjan Olsder — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:56:31 +0000

More PS Vita news today. As we are currently at the PS Vita Launch in The Netherlands, we just read at Venturebeat that PS Vitagames will pr priced between $5 and $50 depending on what you are...

Using app stores to distribute your mobile service - @mippin #mweb09

jamescoops — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 23:00:00 +0000

Mippin are a mobile content aggregation and portal company based in London and one of the most advanced companies in the world in terms of using applications stores as distribution channels. The clever thing mippin realised early on was that you don't need to invest huge amounts in creating full applications for each platform - by using a "wrapper" or "launcher" driving to a mobile website, you can have the best of both worlds - the distribution power of an appstorea and the screen real estate of an app on the device but with the lower development costs of a mobile site.

Here's some notes on a great presentation on how they use application stores at the Mobile Web Summit from Robin Jewsbury Co-Founder and VP Development. I actually got them the slot for this presentation as I knew they would have loads of useful points and I wasn't disappointed.

- initially mippin was 100% focused on an application business (Refresh Mobile) but out of every 100 people that downloaded their app only 20 would open and use (they couldn't find apps on their phone!)

- not so long ago a lot of people therefore thought that mobile apps were dead RIP Mobile Applications and it was all about mobile web - until iphone appstore came along...

- iphone app store not perfect - QA process abysmal, not really a sustainable model? - mippin only getting 100 downloads per week on the app store - need to also look at Ovi etc

- however ... fragmentation of appstores and platforms is a problem

- Nokia - Java, Symbian, WRT, Flash, Blackberry - Java, iphone - C++, Windows Mobile - .net, Silverlight, Android - Java, Palm - Web OS etc etc

- but there is a way around this - use HTML, CSS and Javascript as a common platform and then create a "wrapper" for it - Phone Gap framework can be used for iphone, android, blackberry mobile web apps, WRT for Nokia/ Symbian

- this has allowed mippin to quickly and cheaply launch a presence on a range of different appstores and be one of the first services on the likes of Ovi and Blackberry App World

- 400% growth in RIM traffic since launch on Blackberry appstore

- 21% increase in page views from Nokia handsets since launch on Ovi with a WRT app

You can find mippin in the mjelly directory

Zynga Looks to Ante Up for Online Gambling

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 09:53:00 +0000

Social games developer Zynga announced on Friday that it was in talks with potential partners to offer real money online poker and casino games, hoping to create a new revenue stream to soothe anxious investors questioning its long-term growth prospects.

Moving into online gambling would mark a significant departure from the company's normal business model, which sees it pull in money by sellign advertisements as well as giving users the chance to spend real money on virtual currency that can only be used in its games.

Its Zynga Poker game has 7 million daily users and 30 million or so monthly users, which is light years ahead of PokerStars -- the world's largest online poker site for real money play -- which sees a peak of 50,000-60,000 users active on the site on a typical day.

The comparison, though, is a bit unfair as Zynga Poker is free to play with only a tiny fraction generating revenue for Zynga while many of PokerStars players are real money players generating significan revenue day after day.

Zynga's annoucement was a dramatic about-face from its position just a few months ago that it had no interest in dabbling with online gambling for real money, and possibly spurred on by its struggling share price since its recent IPO, which is off nearly 15% from its opening price.

While the company is marginally profitable some analysts fear that its growth prospects are limited, with a saturation point possibly reached for its popular games such as CityVille, FarmVille, and CastleVille. Competition from competitors is also increasing with Zynga's stranglehold on the social games market slipping a bit.

In October the company announced plans for several new games including Zynga Casino, which is still in development and will include popular casino games such as bingo, blackjack, and roulette.

Zynga hasn't released the names of potential partners, with some analysts also not ruling out that the company may use some of its IPO warchest to buy itself into the online gambling space instead via an acquisition.

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