888.com chief executive officer Gigi Levy has announced a strong performance by his company in Q1,2011, with both revenues and player numbers reaching new heights. Key performance indicators included: Group revenue US$75 million (Q1,2010: US$69 million), an increase of 9% year-on-year and a 6% increase compared to Q4,2010 Revenue B2C US$64 million (Q1,2010: US$59 million), [...]

Social gaming company, Zynga , has acquired an Austin, Texas-based team of staff from MarketZero , a company known for online portals, software programmes, social poker databases and the creators of PokerTableRatings – an online portal that tracks career statistics of online poker players. The company stresses that it has not acquired the MarketZero company [...]