C&amp;W inks deal with online games firm
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â¬400,000 hosting contract Cable &amp; Wireless has signed a â¬400,000 deal to provide managed hosting for online gaming firm Gala Networks Europe (GNE) at its Dublin data centre.â¦
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DIGITAL Bridges, the mobile phone games company, has acquisitions in its sights after signing an exclusive deal with the worldâs biggest computer game publisher.
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Does anyone remember Babbages? Barnes &amp; Noble (NYSE: BKS) purchased the video game retailer back in 1999, changed the name to GameStop (NYSE: GME), and spun off the company
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While C&amp;W helps keep beer flowing this Xmas
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British advertising agency company WPP Group PLC has clinched a deal to buy Grey Global Group of New York in a cash-and-stock deal valued at $1.
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A collective of gamers is hoping to purchase the online game Ryzom to save it from bankruptcy.
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Will also handle knicker giant's WEEE issues Computacenter Services has won a Â£19m managed IT contract with UK retail behemoth Marks &amp; Spencer (M&amp;S).â¦
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Rupert Murdoch's News Corp is eyeing a move into the video games market, the Financial Times says.
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The consolidation wave in the gaming industry has taken yet another somewhat shocking turn. Wednesday afternoon, casino and racetrack operator Penn National Gaming (Nasdaq: PENN
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Electronic Arts, hoping to shore up its eroding dominance in the sports video game market, signed a deal giving it the exclusive right to use the ESPN brand in games.
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An online virtual world playfully branded &quot;Monopoly on steroids&quot; is offering England to the highest bidder, with the winner to be crowned king or queen.
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Shares of British online gambling companies, including Sportingbet PLC and PartyGaming PLC, plunged Monday after the U.S. Congress passed legislation prohibiting the use of credit cards, checks and electronic fund transfers for online gaming.
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The social networking site strikes a deal with Oberon to provide multiplayer games in profiles.
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Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo have agreed to pay a total of $31.5 million to resolve claims that they promoted illegal gambling, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Wednesday.Microsoft will pay $21 million, Google will pay $3 million, and Yahoo will pay $7.5 million, the DOJ said in a news release. The three companies neither contest nor admit that they promoted illegal online gambling by running advertisements for gambling Web sites between 1997 and this year.The settlements stem from an investigation into illegal online gambling by U.S. Attorney Catherine Hanaway of the Eastern District of Missouri, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Internal Revenue Service. Hanaway&#39;s office indicted the founder of Betonsports.com, 10 other people, and four companies on charges of racketeering, conspiracy, and fraud in a crackdown on online gambling on June 1, 2006.Hanaway filed a new indictment against Betonsports, three other companies, and 12 people on June 28 of this year.Unregulated online gambling is illegal in the United States, the DOJ said. The three companies were accused of procuring participants via the advertisements they ran for illegal activity. Those actions fall under the U.S. aiding and abetting statute, the agency said.The Microsoft settlement includes a $4.5 million fine and a $7.5 million contribution to the International Center for Missing and Exploited Children. The company also agreed to create a $9 million online advertising campaign, focused on young people, saying that online gambling is illegal under U.S. law. The campaign will run for three years, beginning in early 2008, the DOJ said.Yahoo has paid $3 million to the U.S. government, and it will provide $4.5 million worth of online advertising to a public-service campaign designed to inform users that operators and participants in online or telephone-based sports and casino-type gambling in the United States may be subject to arrest and prosecution.&quot;These sums add to the over $40 million in forfeitures and back taxes this office has already recovered in recent years from operators of these remote-control illegal gambling enterprises,&quot; Hanaway said in a statement. &quot;Honest taxpayers and gambling industry personnel who do follow the law suffer from those who promote illegal online behavior.&quot;Google said, in a statement, that it has cooperated with the investigation. &quot;While we did not admit any wrongdoing, the Department of Justice has advised that online gambling is illegal in the United States and ads to promote it are improper,&quot; the company said. &quot;Google voluntarily discontinued running such ads, which were a very small part of our AdWords business, in April 2004.&quot;Yahoo said it stopped running ads for gambling sites &quot;years ago,&quot; according to a statement. &quot;After the U.S. Attorney&#39;s Office contacted Yahoo with its concerns, we worked cooperatively over several years to reach this settlement,&quot; the company said.Microsoft was preparing a statement Wednesday afternoon.
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The Westfield Group, Multiplex group and Aldersgate Investments Ltd have entered an agreement to pursue a joint cash offer for Duelguide plc, the company which owns UK developer Chelsfield plc.
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Game publisher Electronic Arts Inc. announced yesterday that it has inked deals with two ad companies that will stream live advertising into its games.
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Electronic Arts Inc. has signed a 15-year agreement giving it the exclusive right to use the sports channel ESPN brand in its video games.