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The Sun’s bingo website is its highest-earning online partnership.
Last year, the site recorded profits of £3.8 million, the MediaGuardian website reports.

SunBingo.co.uk claims to be the biggest web-based bingo game in the UK with 110,000 users each month and 9,000 daily.

News Group Digital (NGD), which oversees Sun Online, Page3.com and the News of the World website, has experienced a 280 per cent year-on-year increase in revenues for its commercial ventures.

The figures were revealed during a recent ‘awayday’ when employees were informed that revenues have grown more than 100 per cent year-on-year to more than £30 million.

Mike Gordon, the deputy managing director of News Group Newspapers, told staff that the site had “aggressive growth targets”, but conceded that the company has “no history” and is “making it up as we go along”.

NGD has is focusing on several key areas: gambling, gaming, dating, dieting and ecommerce.

SunBingo.co.uk recorded 64,514 unique users during June.

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Amadeus has seen its profit soar on the back of the success of its e-ticketing technology.

The global travel distribution system has left its competitors trailing in its wake with its exploitation of online technology.

Some 78 per cent of tickets issued by Amadeus in the first six months of this year were e-tickets.

Amadeus has agreements with 71 airlines to operate their e-ticketing technology and has built links to 125 airlines using other electronic ticketing systems.

Jose Antonio Tazon, chief executive officer of Amadeus, sounded a buoyant note: “The distribution and technology solutions we offer to all our travel industry partners are based on the most advanced technology platform in the industry.

“By 2010, we will have completely decommissioned our legacy transaction protocol framework technology and will be running 100 per cent on next generation open systems.

“This gives us confidence that we will continue to deliver high value technology solutions to the industry for many years to come.”

Total revenue grew by 11 per cent in the first six months of 2007.

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Cadogan Holidays today announced plans to enhance its ecommerce services.

The tour operator is replacing its operating systems with Comtec’s Travelink sales and management platform.

Staff will begin using a web-based sales system and will oversee the online booking services available via the company’s website.

Cadogan Holidays believes the move will improve its growing personalised programme.

It will use Travelink within its call centre and online to manage and sell its existing product range and introduce new travel products and sales channels.

Vicki Tittley, Comtec’s head of sales, told travelmole.com: “Travelink provides a flexible booking platform which presents travel options in the way an individual customer prefers to buy.

“For example, a tailor-made itinerary, a dynamically packaged holiday, or a fixed itinerary tour.”

She added: “We are finding that more and more travel companies, like Cadogan Holidays, are developing flexible propositions in response to changing consumer buying patterns.”

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