New Internet Poker Features Deliver At-Home
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a leading software developer to the global Internet gaming market, today introduced two unique features to its Internet poker software line-up: the ability for players to host their own tournaments, and a new advanced sorting and filtering tool that allows players to customize their own settings for cash games and tournaments. Starting today, the new [...]
Barclays Banks On Funky Design To Lure Customers
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Inside an anonymous warehouse on a Northampton industrial estate stands a mocked-up high street. The street, complete with pedestrian crossing and yellow lines, separates two full-sized branches of Barclays bank. One is slightly dilapidated, as experienced by many customers across the country; the other is a glitzy experiment. The result is a transformation in the [...]
Ladbrokes Profit Rises On Electronic Gaming
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the world’s largest publicly traded gambling company, said profit has climbed 13 percent this year as customers make more bets on electronic terminals and soccer matches go in its favor.
Gross winnings, or the amount left behind by gamblers, rose 16 percent in 2008’s first four months and advanced 34 percent including “high rollers” at its [...]
Canadian Filmmaker Turns To Internet To Finance Movie
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An aspiring Canadian filmmaker is asking the online public to help fund his first movie project, one frame at a time.
Casey Walker launched a website earlier this year to raise C$1 million ($NZ1.3 million) and is selling frames of his yet-to-be-made film over the internet for C$10 ($NZ13) a piece.
In return, investors will receive a [...]
BT boss Ian Livingston faces tough calls
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TO the victor, the spoils. For Ian Livingston, lean, eager and still only 43,
that meant celebrating with a double fried-egg sandwich at the caf%26eacute; around
the corner from his office last Wednesday morning.
In fairness, it wasnt much of a battle to be crowned the next chief executive
of BT, certainly not as tough as fighting for broadband [...]
BT boss Ian Livingston faces tough calls
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TO the victor, the spoils. For Ian Livingston, lean, eager and still only 43,
that meant celebrating with a double fried-egg sandwich at the caf%26eacute; around
the corner from his office last Wednesday morning.
In fairness, it wasnt much of a battle to be crowned the next chief executive
of BT, certainly not as tough as fighting for broadband [...]
Yahoo promises to #39;amp#39; up ad platform
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SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo Inc. believes it’s poised to revolutionize online advertising after years of being outmaneuvered by rival Google Inc.But the slumping Internet pioneer might not get the chance to show off the latest improvements to its online advertising platform unless it can convince increasingly [...]
Telecom ‘got political angle wrong’
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At a highly anticipated investor briefing today in Sydney, Reynolds offered up his strategic vision for the transformation of the company.
He admits shareholders have had a rough ride in the past two years, and Telecom must avoid the regulatory shock of the past by meeting stakeholder expectations.
The firm got the political angle wrong, he says.
It [...]
Yahoo promises to #39;amp#39; up ad platform
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SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo Inc. believes it’s poised to revolutionize online advertising after years of being outmaneuvered by rival Google Inc.But the slumping Internet pioneer might not get the chance to show off the latest improvements to its online advertising platform unless it can convince increasingly [...]
Little relief in sight for newspapers Quadrangle
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By Kenneth Li and Robert MacMillan
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Newspaper company valuations will remain depressed until the industry figures out how to connect with younger readers, private equity firm Quadrangle Capital Partners said on Wednesday.
Finding that new model, which is heavily dependent on the Internet and other electronic technologies, is crucial [...]