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SECTOR NEWS
LONDON GAMING COMPANIES PROFILES
News in brief related to London online gaming stocks.
ARENA LEISURE BETEX
GROUP PLC BETCORP
LIMITED BETINTERNET.COM
PLC BETONSPOTS
PLC
BSKYB PLC CHEEKYMOON ENTERTAINMENT PLC
CRYPTOLOGIC PLC
DATACASH GROUP PLC
EARTHPORT PLC EMPIRE ONLINE PLC
EXCAPSA SOFTWARE INC FAIRGROUND
HOLDINGS FIREONE FUN
TECHNOLOGIES PLC GAMING CORP
PLC GAMING VC GLOBAL
GAMING TECHNOLOGIES PLC IFX
GROUP PLC IG GROUP PLC INTERACTIVE
GAMING HOLDING PLC LADBROKES
PLC LEISURE
& GAMING PLC PADDY POWER
PLC PARTYGAMING
PLAYTECH SPORTINGBET
PLC UKBETTING
PLC WILLIAM HILL PLC 32RED PLC
Sportingbet
26th May 2011
Sportingbet take over
Centrebet
Sportsbook the Australian online bookmaker, Sportingbet
announced a share issue to raise £65 million through the issue of
154,761,904 new Ordinary Shares by way of a Firm Placing and Placing and Open
Offer at a price of 42 pence per New Share and the issue of £65 million in
nominal value of Convertible Bonds to raise £65 million
ARENA LEISURE
BETCORP LIMITED
BETCORP LIMITED
12/7/2006
US$ 9.8 Million Acquisition of Oasis
Sportsbook and Casino. Established in 1997 in Curacao Netherlands
Antilles, Oasis offers telephone and Internet sports bet and Internet
casino to a recreational client base. BETEX
GROUP PLC BETEX GROUP
PLC 12/9/2006
Announces that it has signed seven additional exclusive
province-wide distribution agreements with agents for the Company’s new
lottery software to be distributed into the provinces of Hebei, Heilongjiang,
Shaanxi, Fujian, Hunan, Guangxi and Jiangxi for both Sports and Welfare lottery
products BETEX GROUP
PLC 24/8/2006
Announces that it has signed four additional
exclusive province-wide distribution agreements with agents for the Company’s
new lottery software to be distributed into the provinces of Hubei, Liaoning,
Tianjin and Ji Lin for both Sports and Welfare lottery products BETEX
GROUP PLC 27/7/2006
Announces that it has reached agreement to open an estate of new sports
lottery shops in China. The agreement has been signed with the Lottery
Management Centre for the province of Chongqing, the largest municipality in
China with a population of over 31 million people. BETEX
GROUP PLC
19/4/2006
Announces its association with Guangdong Le Ke Casual Lottery Bars Co Limited (GLKCL) in the forthcoming launch of new football lottery shops in China.
The new sports lottery “Mega-shops” will be based in Guangdong province.
BETINTERNET BETINTERNET
PLC
30/5/2006
Announce a launch date of 1st July for
coreFootball.com, a next generation multiplayer, sports management simulator
played 24/7, live and on-demand for big cash prizes. coreFootball has been
developed by Global coreSports, which is 22.5% owned by Betinternet BETONSPORTS
PLC BETONSPORTS PLC
11/8/2006
The Board of Directors
of BETonSPORTS plc announced that in the light
of the Temporary Restraining Order issued by the United States District Court for
the Eastern District of Missouri, they no longer
consider the US facing operations of the Company, which are based
in Costa Rica and Antigua, to be viable. The
Directors have considered the impact of this conclusion and now intend that the Company
should:-
1. cease its operations in Costa Rica and Antigua as soon as practicable;
2. pay any liabilities to staff and creditors in an orderly manner;
and
3.
repay balances due to US customers in an orderly manner
BSKYB
PLC CHEEKYMOON
ENTERTAINMENT PLC
CRYPTOLOGIC PLC
CRYPTOLOGIC PLC
1/9/2006
As previously expected Betfair, one of the
company’s poker-only customers, will move to an in-house technology solution
at the end of October 2006 CRYPTOLOGIC PLC
31/7/2006
Announced today that its poker software will launch the first Playboy-branded
Internet poker site, targeting markets around the world, excluding the United
States.
CRYPTOLOGIC PLC
10/5/2006
Announced an exclusive three-year licensing
contract to launch a new casino gaming site featuring Playboy, one of the
world's most recognizable entertainment and lifestyle brands.
CRYPTOLOGIC PLC
10/1/2006
ukbetting Renews Agreement to Use
CryptoLogic-Developed Internet Poker Software until 2009. DATACASH
GROUP PLC DATACASH GROUP PLC
6/5/2006
Announced today the proposed acquisition of Proc Cyber Services Limited for
£61.3 million. Proc Cyber is a provider of risk management, payment processing,
payment out solutions and financial reconciliation predominantly to the online
gaming markets. One of its largest customers is Microgaming. EARTHPORT
PLC EARTHPORT PLC
11/2/2006
Earthport has also secured its first customer, BetClick, through an agreement
with DataCash Earthport has now started processing electronic payments for
BetClick, the UK based sports betting website, through its Universal Payment
Network
EMPIRE ONLINE PLC EMPIRE
ONLINE PLC
14/2/2006
Announces that it has today entered into an agreement with PartyGaming to settle
all outstanding litigation between them and effectively to sell the business and
assets of its PartyGaming “skin” activities to PartyGaming in return for a
cash payment of US$250 million, payable on completion EXCAPSA
SOFTWARE INC EXCAPSA SOFTWARE
INC 26/6/2006
Game Theory Limited, has signed a long-term development deal with Callister
Development Limited ("Callister") to develop proprietary elimination
style tournament blackjack and multi-player blackjack software products.
The Excapsa Gaming Network will expand its blackjack offering from single player
blackjack to include elimination blackjack™ tournaments and multi-player
blackjack tables. This product will be initially licensed exclusively for
real money play to the licensee brand UltimateBet.com and to Bet21.com, which
becomes the ninth licensee within the Excapsa gaming network EXCAPSA
SOFTWARE INC 3/5/2006
Announce that its wholly owned subsidiary, Game
Theory Limited, has signed a license agreement with National Lampoon, Inc.
(AMEX:NLN) and completed an exclusive multi-tiered marketing initiative between
the two organizations. launching NationalLampoonPoker.com EXCAPSA
SOFTWARE INC 16/3/2006
David "Devilfish" Ulliott has launched his own online poker site,
"DevilfishPoker.com". Through the exclusive license
agreement with Game Theory Limited, DevilfishPoker.com will join the Excapsa
Poker Network as their seventh licensee FAIRGROUND
HOLDINGS PLC FAIRGROUND HOLDING
PLC 4/5/2006
Announce that the Company has entered into a conditional
purchase agreement to acquire all of the online gaming businesses of The
Spin Palace Group from
Roundit Limited, for a maximum consideration of US$66m.
The
Spin Palace Group possesses several key brands through its online domains
including www.spinpalace.com, www.rubyfortune.com and www.piggscasinos.com, FIREONE
GROUP
FUN TECHNOLOGIES PLC FUN
TECHNOLOGIES PLC
24/8//2006
Announced today that it had aquired the business of CDM Sports a leading fantasy
sports operator. The aquisition of CDM maks Fun the largest pay-to-play
fantasy sports operator in North America.The overall consideration to the
sellers will not exceed US$10 million in Cash and shares. FUN
TECHNOLOGIES PLC
15/8/2006
Announced today the aquisition of Teagames a UK based Casual games portal and
developer. Teagames.com specialises in developing and licensing flash based
casual games. FUN
TECHNOLOGIES PLC
20/3/2006
Announced today that its subsiduary Skillgaming aquired World Winner.com Inc for
the sum of $23 million that further consolidates the companies leadership in the
fast growing casual gaming market.World winner hosts more than 10 million games
in five categories. Card (Bridge and Spades), Word (Word And Mojo), Arcade
(Swopit and Bloxwerx), Staretgy ( Skillgammon and Cubis), Sports (Pool and Polar
Bowler). FUN
TECHNOLOGIES PLC
18/1/2006
Announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary, SkillJam Technologies
Corporation has acquired all of the assets of Octopi LLC . Octopi Located
in Tucson, Arizona, has established itself as a leading developer of
single-player and multiplayer mobile and online games.
GAMING CORP PLC
GAMING CORP
PLC 19/5/2006
Announces that it has signed a contract with Vodafone UK, to launch a fully
interactive mobile casino service on Vodafone live. Including Blackjack,
Roulette, Stud Poker, slots and scratch cards, and will be available for both
practice and real cash play. Registration and deposits can be made via the
mobile handset.
GAMING VC
GLOBAL GAMING TECHNOLOGIES PLC GLOBAL
GAMING TECHNOLOGIES 2/6/2006
Announces that FansFC.com has signed a deal to
licence GGT's Oddstrader product for distribution on the FansFC.com portal.
IFX GROUP PLC IFX GROUP
PLC
3/8/2006
IFX today announced a recommended cash offer by City
Index (Holdings) Limited for IFX Group PLC.The Offer will be 180 pence in cash
for each IFX Share and values the existing issued be issued ordinary share
capital of IFX at approximately £57.9 million
IG GROUP PLC
INTERACTIVE GAMING HOLDING PLC
INTERACTIVE GAMING HOLDING
PLC 3/7/2006
Announces that the OpenBet Casino offering has now gone live on the Premier Bet
website. The
casino has been fully integrated within the existing Premier Bet website,
enabling customers to benefit from a single user account
LADBROKES PLC LADBROKES PLC
15/7/2006
Ladbrokes has today acquired Jack Brown (Bookmaker) Limited, the Welsh
betting shop company with 141 shops. The private sale is for a consideration of
£76 million. LADBROKES PLC
16/5/2006
Ladbrokes.com today announced it is the first leading online betting and gaming
site to launch an online backgammon service, the new game will be available on
www.ladbrokesgames.com
LEISURE & GAMING PLC
LEISURE & GAMING PLC
19/6/2006
Announced today the acquisition of Betshop Group Europe, for a total
consideration of up to £32.06 million pounds. Betshop group is a European based
Sportsbook and casino group located in London, its main sites are betshop.com
& goalsalive.com.
PADDY POWER PLC
PARTYGAMING PLC
PARTY GAMING
PLC
3/8/2006
Announced today the acquisition of gamebookers,
an online sports betting business for an estimated cost of Euro102
million. Gamebookers has more than a quarter of million customer betting in 12
languages from 140 countries, diversifying away from the US Markets.
PARTY GAMING
PLC
14/2/2006
Announced the acquisition of the Empirepoker.com skin from Empireonline for a
total cash consideration of $250 million, and withdrawal of any further claims
against Empire online. This also includes the white label and affiliate rights
to Aceclub.com and Starluck.com
PLAYTECH
PLAYTECH
PLC
17/7/2006
Announced the successful launch of a new bingo site - Bingoday, owned and
operated by Imperial E-Club Ltd, one of the industry's leading online gaming
operations licensed in Antigua and Barbuda PLAYTECH
PLC
10/4/2006
Announces that it has agreed exclusive terms
with TankSoft Inc, one of the foremost specialists in mah-jong gaming software,
mahjong is a popular game in the Asian market.
PLAYTECH
PLC
10/4/2006
Bingo fantasy has recently migrated to the playtech bingo software platform,
also joining the platform is Bingoland.com online since 2001 SPORTINGBET
PLC
SPORTINGBET PLC 25/5/2006
Sportingbet announce the acquisition of a 50% interest in Puntobet today.
Puntobet, based in Italy, is a company engaged in sports betting operations
under an existing Italian gaming licence.
UKBETTING PLC
UKBETTING PLC 28/5/2006
TEAMtalk Media, a division of ukbetting plc, announced that Oddschecker, the
largest odds comparison site, will be launching a new German language site,
oddschecker.de, in time for World Cup betting fans in the host country Germany.
The site will cover all major European football action.
UKBETTING PLC
28/3/2006
Announces its results for the full year to 31
December 2005
UKBETTING
PLC 10/1/2006
ukbetting plc,announces it has renewed its exclusive
agreement with CryptoLogic Inc.'s wholly-owned subsidiary, WagerLogic Limited,
to use its internet poker solutions for its ukbetting.com and totalbet.com
betting brands until 2009 WILLIAM HILL PLC
32RED PLC 32RED PLC
9/8/2006
Announced the launch of their brand new online
casino, Dash Casino. Dash Online casino is powered by the world’s
leading gaming software, Microgaming 32RED PLC
2/6/2006
32Red announces the acquisition of Bet Direct, one
of the largest independent telephone and internet betting businesses in the UK,
for £12.5 million, together with a Placing to raise approximately £6.0 million
from Sportech PLC. 
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