Cantor also continued to rebuild, expanding its investment bank and pushing into new areas like gambling technology.
That has given European operators like Bwin.Party, based in Gibraltar, an edge over U.S. casino companies in the development of online gambling technology.
Mr. Puramsetti, 34, is the senior vice president for finance at Global Cash Access, a gambling technology payment processing company in Las Vegas.
Among the mid-caps, gambling technology group Playtech fell sharply on Thursday on worries about a clampdown in Malaysia on online gaming.
Addiction specialists are concerned that the near-wins and false wins served up by digital gambling technology set off the same reward mechanism in the brain that is activated by actually winning a game.
Three such companies in Forward's portfolios are Lottomatica, an Italian provider of gambling technology; Danone, the French food giant; and Ensco, a British enterprise engaged in deepwater oil drilling.
Poyry's senior project manager has conceded that "whether the fish get across [the dam], you'll only see when it is built".Laotian officials say the dam will little harm the river's health, but Jian-Hua Meng, an engineering expert and WWF consultant, says Poyry is gambling with technology that has never been tested on a tropical river.
Aiming at population-level predictive gambles, these technologies filter who and what counts, including "who is released from jail, what kind of treatment you'll get in hospital, the very news that you see".
That, combined with frequent moral panics over drugs, gambling and technology, means we need to carefully consider whether adding a new diagnosis is a good idea.
The self-driving car initiative is an example of Google's willingness to gamble on technology that may not pay off for years, Dr. Thrun said.
