Mitch Garber, the chief executive of bombed-out internet gambling group PartyGaming, is to be gifted shares and cash currently worth almost £19m under a revised management incentive scheme….

· Improved remuneration package worth £40m· Rewards are not linked to performance…

Online gaming group’s executives are in line for a £40m jackpot as the company today awarded them big cash bonuses and new share options. By Julia Kollewe….

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Online gambling group PartyGaming has scrapped the performance targets on options held by its top directors and awarded more shares and multi-million pound bonuses despite the plunging share price in the last few months after the US banned internet betting….

A warning was issued today about the dangers of a new generation of gaming machines dubbed ‘the crack cocaine of gambling’. Labour’s liberalisation of gambling laws will allow operators to install hundreds of the machines in Britain’s first supercasino…

Luxury department store Liberty’s like-for-like sales in the month before Christmas hit a new high despite a slow start to the festive trading period….

9.30am: PartyGaming snaps up the gambling assets of its smaller rivals Empire Online and Intercontinental Online Gaming for $66.3m (£33.7m) in shares. By Julia Kollewe….

The world’s biggest internet gambling firm, PartyGaming, is buying the gambling operations of two of its smaller competitors.The owner of PartyPoker.com is paying £33.7m in shares for sites owned by Empire Online and Intercontinental Online….

The internet gaming group is to turn itself into a cash shell after selling its sites to bigger rival PartyGaming for around $40m….

From the sale of YouTube to the detention of Sportingbet’s chairman, Russell Hotten describes a year of good and bad luck…

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PartyGaming today confirmed it is in talks with smaller rival Empire Online, as reported exclusively by the Guardian. By Fiona Walsh….

PartyGaming bets on EmpireOnline…

· Company quits gambling in wake of US clampdown · Deal worth up to $40m…

The ashes of Desert Orchid, the iconic racehorse of the 20th century, were laid to rest at Kempton racecourse yesterday when his headstone was unveiled in a ceremony between races….

Casino Royale becomes the highest-earning James Bond movie at cinemas worldwide, taking $454m (£232m)….