One happy Internet player scored $20 000 playing three casino games at Casino.com this week from an unusual location – the toilet in his home.
The London-based firm Centaur Corporate is to launch a new service trading on sports betting this week, reports the Financial Times.
The Bulgarian publication Novinite reports that negotiations have been successfully concluded to base gambling tax at an across-the-board rate of 10 percent in the Eastern European country.
The weekend saw the publication in the Sunday Zaman publication of an interesting article on Internet gambling, and the fight which European betting groups are waging against a government ban on the pastime imposed in 2006.
After months of uncertainty, the ownership of Britain’s national lottery operator, Camelot, has been settled in a GBP 389 million deal with the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan.
Months of speculation came to a head this weekend with the widely reported UK news that Richard Glynn (45) has been tapped as the new chief executive of major online and land gambling group Ladbrokes. Glynn is currently chairman of Sporting Index, a UK spread-betting company, and is reportedly finalising his contract. Most UK news agencies …
The Ongame-powered online poker and casino operator EuroPoker is to launch its own white label sports betting service using OddsMatrix, the fully managed sportsbook provider and subsidiary of EveryMatrix.
Rival-powered online casino LionSlots.com has announced a major progressives hit on the One Million Reels BC virtual machine.
On June 1st, the postponed regulations supporting the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act come into effect, obliging financial institutions to block financial transactions with ill-defined “illegal” offshore gambling sites. Yet already the industry is seeing examples of the much-warned about ‘overblocking’ caused by the act’s lack of precise definition, coupled with the low experience levels …
According to a new Finnish report, online gambling games are becoming widespread, with the border between gambling and digital entertainment becoming increasingly blurred.
After protracted legal fight and ten years of dispute, Loto Quebec has reached an out-of-court settlement with 120 000 plaintiffs in a class action involving exclusion of problem gamblers.
The UK interactive television gambling company, NetPlay TV has announced that it is to take control of the current Challenge Jackpot database from Virgin Media Television for a fixed cash payment of GBP 1.82 million.
European sports fans, and especially football followers, are in for a television treat from April 3rd, when the Sky television network is set to launch Europe’s first 3D television channel.
The latest UK budget announced by Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling this week holds no unpleasant surprises for the gambling industry, although other soft targets like the tobacco and alcohol industries were as usual hit with increased duties.
The French state gambling monoply Francaise des Jeux has announced its acquisition of LVS, a software provider and supplier to the French giant. The sale comes only months after FdesJ commissioned an online fixed odds sports betting platform from the software firm.
Washington, the state that has the dubious reputation for the most draconian anti-online gambling laws in America, has struck at an online gambling site allegedly taking NASCAR betting.
The CardPlayer magazine interview with Frank Fahrenkopf, chief executive of the American Gaming Association, has been followed by a position statement from the trade association, which represents major land gambling operators.
Washington Democrat Representative Jim McDermott has introduced an updated version of the Internet Gambling Regulation and Tax Enforcement Act of 2010, a bill that would ensure that applicable taxes and fees are collected from a regulated Internet gambling industry in order to raise much-needed revenue for federal and state budgets.
A new independent survey on Internet gambling in Canada and the United States, conducted by Ipsos Reid, shows that respondents were less clear on the legality issue than before. In 2007, 41 percent of Americans and 28 percent of Canadians said they knew online gambling was illegal. In 2010, that dropped to 37 percent of …
The sports betting website 188Bet.com has signed a deal with dedicated sports betting TV service The Betting Channel to sponsor segments of the channel’s output.
The predominently football pools betting group Sportech plc has unveiled a disappointing set of numbers that show the group’s nlne casino poker and bingo operations have been underperforming, affecting overall operating profit, which fell by 14 percent to GBP 19.5 million over the year 2009. EBITDA dropped by 12 percent to GBP 14.7 million.
Bingo Hollywood, powered by Globalcom-Dragonfish is set to launch next week but the management are no April Fools, with both experience and the backing of a network that famously includes Wink Bingo, Foxy Bingo and the more recently launched Cheeky Bingo. It will be a stand alone website.
The South African government’s long-running flirtation with online gambling legalisation was once again front and centre in the country this week as yet another round of public hearings took place, this time before the government’s Gambling Review Commission in the coastal city of Durban.
Despite rumours of processing payment hassles, the Rival Gaming software people are still pumping out new online casinos that welcome US players – an increasingly dangerous practice in view of the imminent advent of the UIGEA regulations on June 1st.