Sentences with phrase «on gambling company»

Allen & Overy (A&O) and Freshfieds Bruckhaus Deringer have won the top spots on gambling company 888 ′ s # 893m acquisition of rival bwin.party digital entertainment.

Not exact matches

«Local police also have been investigating our company since last year, they think what we do is gambling,» said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

Certain themes emerge, in Google's 2016 report, on how the company is fighting bad ads and scammers: Weight - loss, payday loans, tabloid cloaking, fake news, pharmaceuticals and other healthcare products, plus gambling come up time and again.

Bombardier's gamble on the CSeries has sent the company into a tailspin.

Perth entrepreneurs Tony Sage and Ranko Matic have both hit roadblocks on their path to turn their respective businesses into online gambling companies through reverse takeovers.

It was at this point that Smith gambled the last of the company's savings on blackjack — which is true.

The company is gambling a lot on these new aircraft — and its Mexican facility.

Both companies are gambling that businesses» focus on function and not fashion will be conducive to gaining traction in that market.

Meanwhile the business on which Microsoft has chosen to gamble its fate, cloud computing, has proved viciously competitive and potentially cannibalistic to its legacy businesses that continue to generate so much cash, says Keith Weiss, a Morgan Stanley analyst who tracks major U.S. software companies.

«The average American consumer has about 10 of our products in their closet,» CEO Glenn Chamandy told me last fall, after his gamble on the company's stock paid off.

Social media companies» disingenuous Captain Renault act — he was the character in Casablanca who declared, «I'm shocked, shocked, to find that gambling is going on here» — must stop.

This disclaimer clearly states that there's risk involved in online gambling and avoids making promises the company can't deliver on.

VC firms, which have traditionally strayed from hardware investments, are taking a gamble on more hardware companies now, including drone startups, because the technology to make these devices and build the support for them has become cheap.

It shared a lot of similarities with online gambling, and because the company allowed wagering on stocks and commodities, some argued it was a financial exchange that required regulation.

The two largest daily fantasy sports companies, FanDuel Inc. and DraftKings Inc., are in early - stage talks to merge, people familiar with the matter said on Monday, as the industry faces a crackdown by U.S. states over whether it runs illegal gambling.

After making a big bet on mobile several years ago, eBay CEO John Donahoe told CNBC's «Squawk on the Street» that the gamble is paying off with the company able to monetize the same on mobile as it does on the Web.

As Tim's gambles on its very future with this merger, one wrong move and all the goodwill the company has accumulated over the last half - century could be wiped away like dribbled coffee.

In some cases, the larger companies are willing to gamble on growth — as eBay did when it bought the Skype chat service last year for $ 2.6 billion.

The move is a big gamble on the part of Governor Stephen Poloz, who hopes the rate cut will both spur companies to spend and help fend off low inflation, but the risk is that Canada's already over-indebted households will put themselves in even more danger by taking on excessive leverage.

Making long - term projections based on past performance and the ability of a company to move forward is not gambling.

A man takes a «gamble» to pay a premium on the club's shares, takes over ownership, consistently brings his company's (KSE) experience to bear on the globalization of the club and all we can say is he «puts no effort»?

Indeed, many of the biggest online sportsbooks offer worse odds than their competitors — they're able to do so because they spend more money on marketing and customer service (that gambling company in Finland, by the way, is one of the biggest spenders on advertising overall in the country!).

The sponsor's logo was deemed by the club as a potential breach of FA regulations and comes after growing pressure on the UK government to look harder at the gambling advertising from betting companies in broadcast media and club sponsorships.

January 12 — While betting company sponsorship of clubs and gambling advertising targeted at football fans on mainstream media in England has come under increasing regulatory focus in England, in Scotland there appear to be fewer concerns.

While some might think that because Genting isn't completely focused on gambling, it didn't benefit as much as a purely gambling oriented company might have with regards to the sponsorship, that couldn't be farther from the truth.

State gambling regulators on Monday issued the first temporary permits for fantasy sports companies to operate legally in New York.

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So speculators would need to gamble on the long term share price of the merged company.

Assemblyman Ken Zebrowski, a Democrat from Rockland County, asked members of the industry a series of questions about possible regulations, including whether an age limit of 18 or 21 was appropriate (18, a FanDuel lawyer replied), whether information about problem gambling was made available (yes, through an outside link, Schiller said), whether there are prohibitions on employees of sporting teams who might have inside knowledge playing (no, because their knowledge would be a statistically insignificant advantage, the companies said) and whether players were limited in their number of entries they could make in a given day.

Representatives from FanDuel, DraftKings and other fantasy sports companies met with lawmakers on Wednesday to discuss the new rules, which resolved concerns that fantasy sports games amounted to illegal gambling.

Speaking to Susan Arbetter on Wednesday's The Capitol Pressroom, Schneiderman said both companies are engaged in illegal gambling.

In March, the AG settled with the major companies, Fan Duel and Draft King, saying the sites will continue to be banned until September, unless the legislature acts to regulate the on line gambling before the end of the legislative session later this month.

The Times reported last week that Genting, a Malaysian gambling company that had worked with Mr. Cuomo on a plan to build a convention center and casino at the Aqueduct racetrack in Queens, gave $ 400,000 to the group in 2011, and that the New York Gaming Association, a trade group founded by Genting and other companies, donated the $ 2 million in December.

ALBANY, N.Y. — The state Lottery Division on Tuesday recommended a Malaysia - based company to build and operate video slot machines at New York City's Aqueduct racetrack, a gambling operation expected...

He founded a new company, Celera, and gambled on a «whole - genome shotgun assembly» approach, in which the 3 billion «letters» of human DNA would be fragmented, identified, and then put together in the correct order by computer.

The Canadian government's Innovation Strategy urges new measures to strengthen our R&D capacity and to create a more welcoming environment for industry receptors, companies that are willing to gamble on bringing the results of R&D to market.

Those few who do have more money than they know what to do with seem to prefer to become «names» at Lloyds than to gamble it on an embryonic company that makes things people might want to buy.

After two years of frustration, Allison found a partner in the small biotechnology company Medarex, which deserves immense credit for gambling on his vision.

Woo Mes gamble is based partly on the lack of speed dating online, partly on the failure of other models of online dating, despite the sizable rewards awaiting successful companies.

IMDb's trivia page reveals that they acquired rights to the film for just $ 2 million, making their losses relatively small compared to the many other companies that gambled on this dog.

It was the official launch of Marvel Studios and a huge gamble was taken to deliver something that comic fans wanted by the company itself, not some other film studio with their takes on characters.

Quite simply, the company is gambling on this segment because it can afford to.

Kia's decision to nix the Stonic for North America suggests the company thinks it knows something Toyota and Nissan don't: Toyota's CH - R and the Nissan Kicks (which has replaced the Juke) are both strictly front - drivers and represent a bit of a gamble on the part of product planners who figure buyers care more about crossover looks in a small package than all - weather traction.

It remains to be seen if any companies will take a gamble on a foldable e-reader.

Both Barnes and Noble and FastPencil have their companies» names at stake and will select books of the highest caliber for physical placement; where taking a risk on a previously unknown author may mean gambling a few dollars on an ebook, there is significantly more money invested in purchasing a print edition, so readers want to know that the book has been carefully screened for quality.

Burkle may believe that the real estate under Barnes & Noble's stores has hidden value, and if he gets control of the company, it may be based on his gamble that the real estate is worth more than the book firm's $ 1 billion market cap.

The company has worked closely with Dolby on its hardware design, and it's gambling that a better - sounding tablet will be a differentiator to people who watch a lot of movies and TV.

No doubt the company hopes that the short - to medium - term play it has gambled on with Amazon pays off and enables them to refurbish and revitalise their physical estate and in doing so regain customers, rebuild profitability and take charge of their own future when they have done that.

If a company does not have a good opportunity currently for a growth project, I as an investor would rather get a dividend than have the company blow all the profit on a ill - fated gamble.

Constantly entering and exiting positions is more like gambling than investing, since you are focusing on short term price movements instead of investing in companies for their fundamentals.