FetchTV viewers in the UK will be able to bet on sporting events as they unfold on television following a deal between online gambling group Betfair TV and IP Vision, parent company of Fetch.
The independent website performance monitor Gomez reports that major online sports betting companies Stan James and Paddy Power delivered the most consistent and fast response service over the weekend as football World Cup betting ramped up in the preliminary rounds.
The major Reading-based UK internet gambling group Unibet is to up its game in the management and content of company websites following an outsourcing deal with Atex Polopoly.
Betfair Arcade members have a wider range of gaming options to look forward to following the launch this week of six new exclusive casino games.
Virgin’s engaging founder and entrepreneur in chief, Sir Richard Branson, is renowned for identifying new and commercially exploitable trends, and his recent venture into video gaming is a good illustration of his talents.
June 17th will see the launch of a new concept in video gaming when OnLive launches its new cloud gaming service, an event that could present fresh business models in online gambling.
A lottery fraud case that occurred 5 years ago came to a conclusion in a Toronto court this week when Hafiz Malik (62) was sent to jail for a year by Judge Rebecca Shamai.
Litigation initiated in New South Wales, Australia by Sportsbet yielded a positive result this week when a federal court ruled that the way in which horse racing authorities collect fees is discriminatory against major bookmakers.
This week was a lucky one for a film student who logged in to 3D online casino WinADay to kill some time with a little gambling recreation…and hit a $200 859 jackpot!
The importance of social networking and gaming was again underlined this week when online gambling operator and software provider 888.com announced the acquisition of the assets comprising the Mytopia social games development studio from Real Dice Inc.
Police raids on cyberbookies have raked in more confiscated cash and arrests in Hong Kong, with police revealing that over HK$113 million (US$14.4 million) in World Cup bets were seized and 64 people arrested in raids in Hong Kong and southern China.
Hong Kong police spokesmen told Agence France Presse over the weekend that they have smashed an illegal World Cup betting ring, arresting 25 persons in the raids.
In an attempt to curb internet gambling on the World Cup football, Thailand enforcement authorities in cooperation with the Information and Communication Technology Ministry have blocked 248 gambling websites, and have threatened that any police found involved in or acting as bookmakers will be summarily discharged.
The massive nation-wide anti-online gambling blitz by Chinese police continued as the week ended, with spokesmen reporting the destruction of a major online gambling syndicate based in the Jiangsu Province.
The US gambling giant Harrah’s Entertainment appears to be widening its lobbying effort in regard to online gambling, The Legal Times reports, noting that the group is adding an additional lobbying firm to promote the legalisation of online gambling in the United States.
Attempts by Cyprus government lawmakers to come to grips with internet gambling have come to a temporary halt due to procedural difficulties, the Cyprus Mail reports.
Last week’s new liberalising laws for Danish gambling, passed unanimously June 4 by the Folketinget (parliament) will have to go back to the European Commission for further consideration following complaints from land-based gambling companies that the tax provisions regarding online gambling are unfair.
Chinese enforcement officials have unveiled some interesting statistics related to the country’s determined assault on illegal online gambling websites, reports The China Daily.
Online gambling software developer Playtech plc has announced the appointment of David Mathewson as an additional independent Non-Executive Director and chair of the audit committee.
The giant television and appliance manufacturing group Samsung has inked an agreement with Betfair TV which will see the two companies partnering to offer the world’s first sports-betting application on Samsung internet-connected HDTVs just in time for the FIFA World Cup 2010 kick-off.
Pursued by opposition members of the Malta Parliament for official government statistics on the value of revenues flowing from the regulation of online gambling, Malta’s finance minister Tony Fenech this week released his statistics.
Australian legislators may seek to stop internet gambling, but the main fave of problem gamblers appears to be land-based slot machines, according to a report from the BBC this week.
Atlantic City land casino operators have been suffering declining revenues for the past three-and-a-half years as a result of the recession and competition from neighbouring states, but they appear to have discarded a proposal by state lawmakers to legalise intrastate sports betting.
Optimism that the worst of the recession which has so badly hammered Atlantic City land casinos may be over was tempered this week by another dismal set of performance statistics.