Making Deals -- Bingo.com and Buy Easy Ltd. announced an agreement today though which Buy Easy's Web site, www.growerflowers.com, will be able to offer its wares on Bingo.com's site. According to Tarrnie Williams, CEO of the Vancouver-based Bingo.com, players on his site will be able to use their "Bingo Bucks" to purchase a coupon redeemable for a free flower vase with a flower order on Buy Easy's flower site. Players on Bingo.com receive Bingo Bucks for winning on bingo, poker games and slots. Bingo.com will earn a percentage of sales made on www.growerflowers.com by Bingo.com users. ... Parlay Entertainment, which is owned by dot com Entertainment Group Inc. , is licensing Phantom Fiber 's wireless middleware framework technology to extend its market reach into the wireless segment. Jeff Halloran, president and CEO of Phantom Fiber, said the agreement will help increase both companies' penetration. "This new licensing agreement helps Parlay extend its exciting interactive gaming platform into the world of real-time functionality where interactive excitement no longer has limits," he said. Parlay offers online bingo, casino and lottery games.
New Stuff -- VIPsports is announcing a new service: index wagering. The Curacao-based gaming site will now offer what has come to be known as spread betting in the United Kingdom. According to VIPsports, the betting style is "similar to the financial futures markets in that the more right you are, the more you win, and conversely the more wrong you are, the more you lose."
News from Sweden -- More Svenska Spel products will be available on the Internet later this year, the Swedish lottery said recently in a press release. Residents of Sweden who are 18 or older can currently log on to the group's Web site and play nine games. Svenska Spel said in a few months scratch instant tickets will be for sale on the site as well.