Online gambling gets head start from flood of play-for-fun casinos

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Las Vegas casinos already feature gambling-for-fun on their Web sites. Bellagio's Web site offers games designed by WagerWorks. Off-shore casinos, too, feature online play-for-fun games. Casinos will next have to persuade regulators that they can verify the name and age of customers, in order to keep kids from gambling.

Coin-operated amusement devices, Casinos, Casinos (except Casino Hotels), Gambling industry, Online gambling, Online game, Online games

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America Online, after talks with SEC, takes lower-than-expected charges

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America Online Inc. (AOL) announced that it posted lower-than-predicted charges against its earnings for two recent purchases. The announcement underlined the greater intensity in regulators' investigations of company write-offs. AOL assumed noncash charges of approximately $70 million during the fiscal fourth-quarter of 1998. The company took the charges for research and development in two of its recent acquisitions.

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Announced that it posted lower-than-predicted charges against its earnings for two recent purchases during 1998 fourth-quarter

Sales, profits & dividends, Specialized Telecom Services, Wired Telecommunications Carriers, Media Planning/Goals, Internet services, America Online Inc., Article

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With cash for clicks, Web marketers turn advertising on its head

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AllAdvantage.com is an Internet-based service that pays World Wide Web users as they "surf the 'Net." The Hayward, California company provides software that displays banner advertising to Internet users as long as they are connected to, and actively using the Web. The company, one of more than a dozen involved in some form of electronic advertising and marketing, also rewards users for getting their friends to sign up. This referral method is not without critics however, some claiming it allows for unsolicited "spam" messages. Another concern, from privacy advocates, is that the banner software permits companies to track individual Internet use. However, software has been created that simulates Internet usage, thus keeping the "meter running."

Economic aspects, Finance, Internet, Web sites (World Wide Web), Web sites, Internet/Web advertising, Internet advertising, World Wide Web, AllAdvantage.com Inc.

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