Making Deals -- Ukbetting netted £418,000 from the sale of the assets and property of Irish Radio Tara, a radio station ukbetting purchased as part of its takeover of Teamtalk. Ukbetting paid £14 million for Teamtalk in August. It also owns Sportinglife.com and Sportal.com.
Names and Faces -- Safe3w Inc. today announced the appointment of Moshe Elgressy as vice president of engineering. Elgressy will also serve as the general manager of Safe3w R&D, the company's subsidiary in Israel. Safe3w is a provider of two-factor authentication for secure online access, payments and transactions.
Bit from the UK -- The South London Press reported on Friday that a university professor in South London has come up with what the paper is calling one of the weirdest bets of 2003. Sean Hill, a professor at Goldsmiths College, bet that art collector Charles Saatchi would pay £10,000 for the betting slip associated with Hill's bet. William Hill put the odds at 1/2.
Trivial, but Interesting -- The Toronto Star last week took a look at what Catholic Saint should be designated the patron saint of the Internet. J.T. Zuhlsdorf, a priest who moderates Catholic Online, a web site for North American Catholics, said Isidore the Bishop would make a good patron saint of the Internet because of his reputation for scholarship during his lifetime in medieval Europe. Zuhlsdorf said that between online pornography and online gambling, there are plenty of reasons to have a saint watching over the whole enterprise. "The Internet is so popular, and so big, but it's fraught with some very wicked things alongside the good things. It seems to me both prudent and useful to ask the intercession of the saints in heaven to guide us when we use this fabulous new tool," he said.