Are AdWords Bad Words?

October 14, 2009

By David Hansel, Partner, Hansel Henson LLP & Christian Panayi. The important matter of whether Google can lawfully allow advertisers to use its AdWords service to bid on keywords that are registered trade marks ought to have become a lot clearer as a result of a much anticipated opinion of the Advocate General of the [...]

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What Gordon Did Get Right

April 21, 2009

By Simon Collins, Director, Cashcade Ltd. We’ve written an article for the Independent’s media section about the UK online gambling industry. It’s based on the themes that we focus on here on the Perfect Storm blog. Here’s a snippet… “Did Gordon Brown fail to regulate a bunch of city bankers who we now know were [...]

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UK Online Gambling Regulation – A Reality Check

January 12, 2009

By John Hagen of Harris Hagen. The public perception of online gaming is, unfortunately, overwhelmingly negative, and is reflected and reinforced in almost exclusively hostile press coverage. A quick browse of newspaper and internet articles relating to online gaming reveals stories of addiction, financial ruin, marital breakdown, theft and money laundering. A recurrent underlying theme [...]

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Online, Booming and British!

October 31, 2008

By Simon Collins, Director, Cashcade Ltd. When people think about successful businesses using cutting-edge technology they tend to think about America and specifically Silicon Valley. However, while the US may be home to many such companies, there’s one sector where all of the main players are in the UK. And that’s the online gambling and [...]

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