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888
888 or triple eight may refer to: * 888 (number), an integer * 888 BC, a year of the 9th century BC * AD 888, a year of the Julian calendar * 888casino, an online casino * 888chan, an image board * 888 Holdings, an online gambling company, trading as "888.com" * ''888'' (manga), by Noriko Kuwata * 888poker, an online poker room * 888sport, an online bookmaker * Ducati 888, a motorcycle * Route 888 (Israel), a road in Israel * Triple 8, a British boy band * Triple Eight Race Engineering, an Australian motor racing team, related to the British team * Triple Eight Racing, an English motor racing team * 8/8/8 is a nickname for the 2008 South Ossetia War that broke out on August 8, 2008 * 888 is a contraction of the labour movement's slogan for the Eight-hour day * 888 is prefix/area code for toll-free telephone numbers in the North American Numbering Plan * 888 is the number used to dial up teletext, subtitles on some programmes shown on European television channels * 4-hole extensio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
888 Holdings
888 Holdings PLC, () known commonly as 888, is a public company which owns several popular gambling brands and websites, including 888sport, 888casino and 888poker. 888 is based in Gibraltar. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. History The business was founded in May 1997 by Israeli entrepreneurs Avi and Aaron Shaked and Shay and Ron Ben-Yitzhak, two sets of brothers, as ''Virtual Holdings Limited''. The company's first website, ''Casino-on-Net'' was launched at that time, and the administrative centre was established in Antigua. In 2002 ''Reef Club Casino'' and ''Pacific Poker'' followed. In 2003 its administrative center was moved to Gibraltar. It was first listed on the London Stock Exchange in 2005. Talk of listing began in mid-2005, as other private online gambling companies began to make the move to public ownership, 888 Holdings owned several subsidiaries and brands, which it began to bring under the singular "888.com" brand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
888poker
888poker, formerly Pacific Poker, is an international online poker cardroom and network owned by 888 Holdings. 888poker was established in 2002, and is based in Gibraltar. History The poker provider was originally launched in 2002 as ''Pacific Poker'' and later rebranded 888poker. The site enjoyed early success due in part to a large number of players who joined from its more established sister site. United States When the United States Congress passed the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) in 2006, affirming that online gambling in the United States was illegal, 888poker was forced to close its doors to all American players. Changes to online gaming regulations in 2013 in some states has prompted return by 888 to the US market. Nevada 888poker has partnerships with several private gaming entities in Nevada, and New Jersey. Authorities in these states require that online casino providers join an offline partner in order to receive an operating license. On M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
888casino
888casino, formerly Casino-on-Net, is an online casino founded in 1997 and based in Gibraltar. It is one of the Internet's oldest casinos, and in 2013 it became the first exclusively online casino to be licensed in the United States. History ''Casino-on-Net'' was established by brothers Aaron and Avi Shaked along with partners Ron and Shay Ben-Yitzhaq, also two brothers, in 1997. Aaron Shaked claims to have come up with the idea of the online casino while attending a dentistry conference in Monte Carlo. In 1994, the Free Trade & Processing Zone Act was passed in Antigua and Barbuda, opening the way for the development of legal online casinos. ''Casino-on-Net'' was re-branded as ''888casino'' in 2010 to unify the look and feel with other 888 brands. By 2015 the site was licensed and operating in Gibraltar, New Jersey, Denmark, Spain and a number of other countries and territories. In 2015, ''Gaming Intelligence'' magazine described 888casino as "the only truly pan-European casino. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
888sport
888sport (pronounced as "Triple Eight Sport") is a multinational online sports gambling company headquartered in Gibraltar. It was founded in 2008 and is a subsidiary of 888 Holdings plc. The company provides online sports betting, predominantly in European markets. History 888sport was launched as the dedicated sports arm of 888 Holdings in March 2008, and as part of 888's gambling arm. 888sport began to get involved in sports sponsorship in 2010, starting with a sponsored stand at Fontwell Park Racecourse. Former Spanish national team footballer Santiago Cañizares joined 888sport in 2011 as European brand ambassador, in 2012 English former professional footballer Ian Wright as pundit during The Euros, and Channel 4 Racing presenter Emma Spencer joined in 2014 as horse racing expert. 888sport received media coverage for the way it utilised social media prior to and during the fight between George Groves and Carl Froch fight in 2014. In 2013, the Nevada Gaming Commissi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ducati 888
The Ducati 888 was a motorcycle manufactured by Ducati as an upgrade to the Ducati 851. The earlier 851 had introduced liquid cooling, computerized fuel injection and four-valve heads to the company's two cylinder motors. In 1991 Ducati increased the capacity of the 851 to 888 cc to create the 888. Both engines featured the Desmoquattro valvetrain concept in which a four valve per cylinder motor was given desmodromic valve actuation, with cams both opening and closing the valves. Ducati's desmodromic system reduces the frictional penalty from conventional valve springs. Production figures known for the various models are: 1991 models: 1200 × 851 Stradas, 534 × SP3 & 16 × SPS. A total of 1850 units. 1992 models: 1402 × 851 Stradas, 500 × SP4 & 101 × SPS. A total of 2003 units. 1993 models: 1280 × 888 Stradas, 500 × SP5 & 290 × SPO - for the American market. A total of 2070 units. 1994 models: 1571 × 888 Stradas & 100 SPO for the American market. A total of 1671 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Triple Eight Race Engineering
Triple Eight Race Engineering, (branded as Red Bull Ampol Racing) is an Australian motor racing team competing in the Supercars Championship. The team has been the only Brisbane based V8 Supercar team since its formation, originally operating out of the former Briggs Motor Sport workshop in Bowen Hills before moving to Banyo in 2009. Since taking over the former Briggs Motor Sport team during the 2003 season the team has won the Supercars driver's championship ten times, the team's championship eleven times and the Bathurst 1000 nine times. The team currently runs two Holden ZB Commodores for Broc Feeney and Shane van Gisbergen. Additionally, the team provides technical support to Team Sydney, Team 18 and Matt Stone Racing. The team performs its testing at Queensland Raceway. Originally affiliated with champion British Touring Car Championship race team Triple Eight Racing and owned by Peter Butterly, Roland Dane, Ian Harrison and Derek Warwick, Dane later took majority owne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
888 (number)
888 (eight hundred eighty-eight) is the natural number following 887 and preceding 889. In mathematics 888 is a repdigit (a number all of whose digits are equal), and a strobogrammatic number (one that reads the same upside-down on a seven-segment calculator display). 8883 = 700227072 is the smallest cube in which each digit occurs exactly three times, and the only cube in which three distinct digits each occur three times. 888 the smallest multiple of 24 whose digit sum is 24, and as well as being divisible by its digit sum it is divisible by all of its digits. 888 is a practical number, meaning that every positive integer up to 888 itself may be represented as a sum of distinct divisors of 888. There are exactly 888 trees with four unlabeled and three labeled nodes, exactly 888 seven-node undirected graphs without isolated vertices, and exactly 888 non-alternating knots whose crossing number is 12. It is a happy number, meaning that repeatedly summing the squ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
888 (manga)
, or ''Three Eight'', is a Japanese comedy manga series written and illustrated by Noriko Kuwata. Story The newly opened Suehiro Detective Agency is composed of laid-back manager Hisago, dog-loving chief investigator Shimeki and administrator Tsukumo. With very few paying customers, the three protagonists are free to spend their time bickering with and teasing one another, setting each other up in matchmaking schemes and looking for lost pets. Shimeki also has to contend with his knife-wielding ex-wife and the overly dependent little brother he has just been re-united with. Manga Volume list Critical response IGN ''IGN'' (formerly ''Imagine Games Network'') is an American video game and entertainment media website operated by IGN Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Ziff Davis, Inc. The company's headquarters is located in San Francisco's SoMa distri ... gave the first volume of ''888'' a rating of "Pass It", complaining that "nothing happens, and it keeps on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qualcomm Snapdragon
Snapdragon is a suite of system on a chip (SoC) semiconductor products for mobile devices designed and marketed by Qualcomm Technologies Inc. The Snapdragon's central processing unit (CPU) uses the ARM architecture. A single SoC may include multiple CPU cores, an Adreno graphics processing unit (GPU), a Snapdragon wireless modem, a Hexagon digital signal processor (DSP), a Qualcomm Spectra image signal processor (ISP) and other software and hardware to support a smartphone's global positioning system (GPS), camera, video, audio, gesture recognition and AI acceleration. As such, Qualcomm often refers to the Snapdragon as a "mobile platform" (e.g. Snapdragon 865 5G Mobile Platform). Snapdragon semiconductors are embedded in devices of various systems, including Android, Windows Phone and netbooks. They are also used in cars, wearable devices and other devices. In addition to the processors, the Snapdragon line includes modems, Wi-Fi chips and mobile charging products. The Sna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AD 888
__NOTOC__ Year 888 ( DCCCLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * January 13 – Emperor Charles III (the Fat) dies at Neidingen, after having suffered repeat bouts of an illness that may have been epilepsy. The Frankish Empire is split again, and falls apart into separate kingdoms. Count Odo, the hero of the Siege of Paris, is elected king of the West Frankish Kingdom, and crowned at Compiègne by Walter, archbishop of Sens.Gwatking, H. M., Whitney, J. P., et al. Cambridge Medieval History: Volume III–Germany and the Western Empire. Cambridge University Press: London (1930). Other Frankish noblemen support the 8-year-old Charles the Simple (the posthumous son of the late king Louis the Stammerer). * October – Alan I (the Great), count of Vannes, and his rival Judicael, unite their forces to defeat the Vikings at Questembert (or 889). Judicael is killed, in a nota ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Triple Eight Racing
Triple Eight Racing was a motorsports team formed in 1996 as Triple Eight Race Engineering, which competed in the British Touring Car Championship and the British GT Championship. The team's original focus was to design, build and race Vauxhalls on behalf of the General Motors brand in the British Touring Car Championship (BTCC). A close working alliance developed during a decade of success and Triple Eight became Vauxhall's technical partner for motorsport. In 2009, Vauxhall Motors ended its support for the BTCC, however the team continued to compete using Vauxhalls until the end of the 2011 season. From the 2012 season, Triple Eight began to build and race MG6 GT cars on behalf of MG, in a revival of the marque in the BTCC. The following year, the team entered the British GT Championship, running a pair of BMW Z4 GT3s. Prior to the start of the 2015 season, the team rebranded itself as ''Triple Eight Racing'' across all its motorsport programs, introducing a new team nam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Route 888 (Israel) ...
Route 888 is a north-south regional highway in northern Israel. It begins at Beit Tzida junction with Highway 87 and ends at Beit HaMekhes junction with Highway 91. Junctions on the route See also *List of highways in Israel {{Transportation in Israel 888 888 or triple eight may refer to: * 888 (number), an integer * 888 BC, a year of the 9th century BC * AD 888, a year of the Julian calendar * 888casino, an online casino * 888chan, an image board * 888 Holdings, an online gambling company, trading ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
