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• Ukbetting takeover approach could prompt wave of mergers

  - 2006-10-06

  Shares in Ukbetting, the online gaming firm, jumped 11 per cent yesterday after it revealed it had received a takeover approach. It is understood the suitor is a large internet gaming group seeking to boost its customer numbers in the wake of the crackdown on internet gambling...

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• Ukbetting takeover approach could prompt wave of mergers

  - 2006-10-06

  Shares in ukbetting, the online gaming firm, jumped 11 per cent yesterday after it revealed it had received a takeover approach. It is understood the suitor is a large internet gaming group seeking to boost its customer numbers in the wake of the crackdown on internet gambling...

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• Ukbetting mulls gaming arm sale as it launches strategic review

  - 2006-10-01

  Ukbetting, the online gaming company, is reportedly set to appoint consultants to handle a strategic review of its business, which could lead to sale of its betting operation, according to reports. Speculation that the company was preparing to appoint UBS to handle a review increased after the group announced...

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• UKBETTING (UKB).

  - 2006-09-15

  There is a subtle shift in tone this time around from Ukbetting's chairman, Peter Dubens. The company has just turned profitable and, following a fund-raising earlier in the year, it now has a substantial cash pile. It's against that background that Mr Dubens says: "The gambling...

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• Ukbetting sees 10% increase

  - 2006-08-01

  Ukbetting, the online sports content and gaming company, has reported a 10% rise in revenue and "a significant increase" in profitability for the first half of its trading year. In a trading update, the firm said that trading in the first half of 2006 had been "strong" and in...

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• Fall-out from arrests makes Ukbetting worth a flutter

  - 2006-07-24

  Online gaming stocks took a pounding last week after BetonSports chief executive David Carruthers was arrested in the US. He and the company found themselves on the receiving end of an indictment which forced the suspension of all BetonSports operations across the Atlantic and the trading of...

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• Business News IN BRIEF: Ukbetting chiefs up stake to 17 per cent

  - 2006-07-01

  Ukbetting, the online gaming company said yesterday its chairman, Peter Dubens, and chief executive, Eric Semel, had raised their combined stake from 1 to 17 per cent. They exercised warrants granted when ukbetting was founded in 2001. Its shares fell 0.5p to 52.5p.

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• Ukbetting adds to bookmaking misery with profits warning

  - 2005-11-19

  Ukbetting became the fourth bookmaker in two days to warn that annual earnings will be hit by a recent run of good form among punters. The Leeds-based company, which owns the sportinglife.com and football365 websites, cautioned that it will now hit only more modest targets set by...

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• Ukbetting comes in a net winner

  - 2005-04-16

  Ukbetting, the internet bookmaker, moved into the black for the first time in 2004 and put its success down to the rapid expansion in broadband access across Britain. Group turnover was up 57 per cent over the year to pounds 85m; revenues from online poker up 376 per cent; advertising...

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• Ukbetting boosts its hand

  - 2005-04-01

  Ukbetting, the online gaming and content business, announced that Oddschecker.com, its comparison website, had launched two new sites to cater for the rapidly expanding online casino and poker markets. These will monitor the latest jackpots, tournaments and bonuses giving players an instant guide to what is happening across the...

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