PartyGaming says the deal with Bwin will create a group worth .3bn. Photograph: Graham Turner PartyGaming and its Austrian-based rival Bwin today announced plans for a merger that they say will create the world’s biggest publicly-listed online gambling company. The enlarged group, to be incorporated in Gibraltar and listed on the London Stock Exchange, would [...]

The latest Amazon Kindle e-reader Amazon unveiled two lighter, more advanced versions of the Kindle e-reader today, alongside a new UK ebook store that it claimed will send sales of the device soaring in Britain. Faced with growing competition in the e-reader market, Amazon has redesigned the device and has made it available directly from [...]

US economists Mark Zandi and Alan Blinder say in a new study that US bailout measures averted a worse financial crisis. Photograph: Brendan McDermid/Reuters To Washington conservatives they were egregious examples of “big government” overreach, but the White House’s economic stimulus and bailout policies have saved 8.5m jobs and averted a further slump of 6.5% [...]