So as rumoured for a while, Ladbrokes have finally acquired the lemon, sorry, purple-coloured betting exchange, Betdaq. For a mind-boggling €30m as 'initial consideration'. That's an even more ridiculous price than Fernando Torres for £50m, or any English player Liverpool have purchased in recent seasons! As I've written previously there are no logical business reasons for this acquisition. from Nov 29, 2012 The Racing Post reported this week that Ladbrokes are nearing a decision to acquire Betdaq. This baffles me, it really does. Betdaq are a complete and utter lemon. Their only rival in the market has kicked so many own goals over the years with the premium charge, followed by an increase in the premium charge, cost of API and data use, customer service standards which have fallen faster than Facebook share value, site crashes and various other faults. So many pissed off Betfair customers, yet Betdaq are still tailed off with a lap to go. Around the world, Betfair
got Vettel beaten on the first corner, unfortunately by the wrong Ferrari. Ah well, still well in front for the year.
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Should be a cracking race.
Hi Dubai,
ReplyDeleteHungary will be all about qualifying pace - in the last 16 races there, only four races have seen 10 or more overtaking moves (excludes passing during pitstops and lapping backmarkers). They call it 'Monaco without the walls'.
Unless of course it rains...
I think Ferrari will go well given they seem to have got their blown exhaust working well. Obviously RB are still the team to beat, hoping Webber can bring it back together this w/end.
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