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Timely launch

17 Mar 2010

WinADay’s latest game release, a 5 reel 31 payline 3D slot dubbed Leprechaun’s Luck was launched on St Patrick’s Day, backed by a series of promos to mark the international wearing of the green.

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Online casino action for PKR?

17 Mar 2010

The chief executive of the popular UK-based 3D online poker room PKR.com, Malcolm Graham, said in an intervew this week that the company will introduce a suite of casino games to build on the company’s impressive growth since launch in 2006.

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lacklustre year for Neovia

17 Mar 2010

The Internet e-cash processing group Neovia plc has released a lacklustre set of full year results for the period to December 31st 2009.

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71 percent rise in full year profit at Playtech

17 Mar 2010

Playtech Limited has posted a 71 percent rise in full-year net profit and raised its dividend, as new licence agreements boosted its bottom line, and says it has made a good start to 2010.

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Playtech to provide Boyle Sports with online bingo

17 Mar 2010

Online gambling software provider Playtech Ltd. has established a bingo licensing agreement with Ireland’s largest independent bookmaker Boylesports.

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Fourth online gambling portal attacked?

17 Mar 2010

Although full details are not yet to hand, posts at the Gambling Portal Webmasters Association (GPWA) forum indicate that a fourth online gambling information website may have come under distributed denial of service attack.

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Will Hill extends Cryptologic relationship

17 Mar 2010

Online gambling software developer Cryptologic celebrated its ten-year-long business partnership with the major UK bookeeper group William Hill plc this week by extending the relationship with a new multi-year deal to license a suite of its most popular branded casino games.

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Consolidated research on Aussie gambling

17 Mar 2010

Australian academics who carried out a meta-analysis of 34 gambling studies conducted in Australia and New Zealand, claim to have produced the most complete study of gambling prevalence in Australasia to date…and the problem gambling implications are worrying.

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eCOGRA accredits major French online gambling group´s casino software

17 Mar 2010

The online and interactive software supplier subsidiary of the largest privately held land gambling group in France – Groupe Partouche – has successfully achieved accreditation by the independent standards and player protection body eCOGRA.

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Third online gambling portal attacked

17 Mar 2010

A third online gambling information website, the Online Players Union.com, was subjected to a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack Tuesday morning, taking the site down for some 2 hours.

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Will Macau cap casino activity?

17 Mar 2010

Moves to restrict the involvement of more gambling companies in the booming gambling island of Macau could be in prospect, presenting existing licensees like Las Vegas Sands, MGM Mirage and Wynn Resorts with limited new competition.

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Bonnier deal extended by Net Entertainment

17 Mar 2010

Swedish online gambling software provider Net Entertainment extended its partnership with the part-owned Bonnier Gaming bingo subsidiary Bertil Internet Ltd, through an additional delivery of its successful CasinoModule online casino platform.

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Getting social with GTech marketing tool

17 Mar 2010

Online gambling technology and software provider GTechG2 has introduced an innovative social customer relationship manager (CRM) aid to its Bingo platform.

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Lucky warning

16 Mar 2010

The anonymous winner of a $250 000 Mega Millions lottery prize in Maryland was doubly lucky this week when he almost discarded the winning ticket.

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Is this the biggest yet online scratch card jackpot?

16 Mar 2010

Neogames-powered scratch card site Hopa.com reports that an Australian player, SanjaniH has scored what may well be the biggest scratch card jackpot win yet – a $200 000 windfall and the biggest single prize ever paid by the website.

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Another online gambling fights off DDoS attack

16 Mar 2010

Yesterday’s story on a Distributed Denial of Service attack on the Internet gambling information portal Casinomeister.com has been followed by reports of a similar if less severe attack over the weekend on the Online Casino Reviewer.com website.

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Betstone in Italy

15 Mar 2010

Server based gaming specialist Betstone.com will be among online gambling companies with ambitions for the Italian market exhibiting at the ENADA show this week.

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Casinomeister.com attacked

15 Mar 2010

The popular German-based online gambling information portal Casinomeister.com was the target for a distributed denial of services attack over the weekend, but will soon be up and running again says webmaster Bryan Bailey.

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Major bingo jackpot

15 Mar 2010

The Sands of Fortune shifted for a lucky Costa Bingo.com player last week when they won more than GBP 71,000 at the fast-growing online bingo website, which only launched last year.

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AGA spent $345000 lobbying in Q4 2009

14 Mar 2010

The American Gaming Association, a trade association that represents the interests of the main land gambling firms in the United States, spent $345 000 in the fourth quarter 2009 to lobby on issues such as online gambling and health care reform, according to a recent mandatory disclosure report.

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Betcha.com tussle still ongoing

14 Mar 2010

The legality of a business model for a betting exchange company that was closed in 2007 under pressure from Washington state officials is still the subject of court actions as the owner and the state gambling authorities wrestle through appeal and counter appeal actions.

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Big changes imminent at Gala Coral

14 Mar 2010

Big changes are in prospect at the UK land and online gambling group Gala Coral as longrunning ownership discussions appear to be finally reaching a conclusion.  But it could be a resolution of the company’s debt problems that will see private equity owners left with no involvement.

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CTV online gambling program: much ado about Ayre

14 Mar 2010

Saturday’s Canada screening of CTV W5’s investigative program on Internet gambling was a fairly mild affair in which the life and times of Bodog founder Calvin Ayre (48) featured heavily, with the high profile exec speaking from Antigua on his latest venture, franchising the Bodog brand.

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Betfair TV gets into its stride

13 Mar 2010

The world’s largest online betting exchange, Betfair, has launched its new in-play betting service for Internet-enabled television sets, opening up new betting opportunities for punters across the world.

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