The British government is about to put the state-owned gambling concern The Tote back up for sale, reports The Telegraph newspaper, noting that Lazard Bank has been appointed to advise government on the matter.
The British government is about to put the state-owned gambling concern The Tote back up for sale, reports The Telegraph newspaper, noting that Lazard Bank has been appointed to advise government on the matter.
With 66 congressional co-sponsors on board for his HR2267 Internet Gambling Regulation, Consumer Protection, and Enforcement Act, Congressman Barney Frank may be about to make his next move in seeking to legalise online gambling in the United States, reports CardPlayer.
It could be a more progressive approach to online gambling, or maybe more restrictions, but a member of the Nevada Gaming Control Board is apparently drafting a document that will clarify the relationships between Nevada-licensed land casino operators and their online counterparts.
Continent 8 Technologies, which provides state-of-the-art, outsourced Internet infrastructure and related managed hosting services to the e-business and e-gaming industries has announced its continued international expansion with the opening of a point of presence (POP) in Paris.
Online betting group Sportingbet.com continued its preparations to enter a liberalised French gambling market with a deal this week with the online version of major newspaper Le Monde.
Kuala Lumpur police raided five premises in the Jalan Klang Lama area this week, continuing an extensive drive against online gambling in Malaysia.
The Gibraltar-based online and land bookmaking group Victor Chandler has extended its shirt sponsorship deal with the Nottingham Forest football club by two seasons.
Yet another negative story on the notorious Virtual Casino group surfaced on the Casinomeister portal this week as disgruntled poster ‘pobeda’ described an experience that can only be characterised as a nightmare.
Television network CTV W5 in Canada is to broadcast its take on Internet gambling in an early evening slot on Saturday March 13.
Is public opinion in the United States behind Congressman Barney Frank’s legislative attempts to legalise online gambling? A recent academic study suggests that may not be the case.
In what seems to have been a major difference of opinion, Betfair’s US boss, Gerard Cunningham, has left the company. His responsibilities in the US horseracing division have been taken over by Stephen Burn, who will report to Betfair’s UK-based betting exchange md, Mathias Entenmann.
The Greek government, struggling with a Euro 300 billion national debt and a floundering economy, is looking to its gambling monopoly OPAP to help make ends meet, reports the Reuters news agency. Moves are afoot to squeeze an extra Euro 400 million from gaming for the state coffers.
If you thought that the last quarter of 2009 was a bumper period for new game releases, you’ll be even more impressed with the wide range of new offerings that online gambling software developers have pushed out since February this year.
Virtue Fusion Alderney, recently acquired by Playtech plc, has added Deal or No Deal Classic across its network. The new addition is a fixed-odds version of the famous Endemol television hit show, in which players are offered a ‘deal’ by the banker at the end of each round, guaranteeing a cash prize.
Wajaras is an intriguing new online gambling service currently emerging from Beta testing with the claim that it simplifies connectivity without sacrificing quality, and has the added advantage of not leaving any trace on the computer used to play.
Malta-based online gambling software provider B3W has launched two new additions to its product offerings – Internet poker and horseracing. The new products join an inventory that includes online casino and scratchcard products.
The latest white label deal inked by online scratchcard games and white label provider Neogames will see the company launch a scratchcard website branded Winnings.com for Winnings Limited, a subsidiary of the Infomeda group.
Silicon Republic.com reports that Irish politicians who have been considering the licensing and regulation of online gambling for some time could be about to vote for legislative proposals that would see the creation of a regulatory system. That would be instrumental in attracting businesses to the country and may come about as early as end March, …
Virgin Games is one of the first online casinos this week to carry online gambling software provider Cryptologic’s latest Marvel comics-inspired Thor Jackpot Slot.
The Kansas City grand jury probe into online sportsbetting activities has generated more prosecutions, reports the Kansas City Star, revealing that a federal indictment unsealed Wednesday charged four men and two companies with running an illegal gambling business that attracted about $3.6 million in bets over three years.
The imposition of French bans on Internet gambling company logos on the shirts of French football teams playing away games outside France has come under attack.
Strictly regulated and controlled gambling could represent a valuable source of tax revenues to Belarus, the country’s president, Alexander Lukashenko, told lawmakers this week.
The Polish Football Federation has been forced to suspend its sponsorship agreement with Swedish online sports-betting company Unibet, in order to fall into line with the Eastern European country’s new and draconian online gambling laws, which came into effect on January 1st 2010.