Switzerland is headed toward a significant online gambling liberalisation – and it’s without any external legal pressure to do so, reports the MECN research company, which has just completed a survey on developments in the traditionally neutral country in association with the Swiss legal firm MME Partners.
2010 will likely see exciting developments in Estonia, a small Baltic nation already respected internationally for its software development capabilities that is reportedly moving into the online gambling regulatory field.
The UK newspaper The Daily Telegraph reports that pre-tax profits at UC Group fell to GBP 218 221 in 2008, down from GBP 2.42 million a year earlier following a 30 percent fall in revenues. But prospects for 2010 are looking a little more promising.
According to an article in the January issue of the magazine Gamesworld, the costs of regulating the British gambling industry have tripled since the advent of the Gambling Commission in 2005.
Under the Canadian Criminal Code, only provincial governments have the power to conduct Internet gambling, and the British Columbia government is being urged to exercise this authority in a non-exclusive manner to ensure that Canadian punters are presented with only reputable and safe Internet gambling venues.
Despite grumbling from the European Commission on its restrictions of gambling services from other EU nations, it appears that the Belgian government is forging ahead with its plans for Belgian-exclusive online gambling regulation in 2010.
With 2010 barely days old, the Reuters news agency reports that shares of Macau land casino operators rose this week on reports that gambling revenues in the enclave in December 2009 rose 48 percent from a year earlier, signalling sustained growth in the world’s largest gambling market.
One of the longest established and best known companies in the online gambling industry, 888.com, has announced the departure of one of its founding directors.
Three new non-executive directors have been added to the board at Mirada Gaming.
The Greek government has named Yannis Spanoudakis, a senior Athens 2004 Olympics organiser, as the new chief executive officer of Europe’s biggest betting company OPAP, a company spokesman has revealed.
Mahjong Logic, a software developer and real money player-to-player mahjong network, has announced its achievement of Isle of Man online gambling licensing.
The year-long industry dispute between some affiliate marketers and the Grand Prive Affiliate Program moved a further step closer to a hopefully mutually satisfactory conclusion this week as the extended 31st December deadline for submission of claims to third party auditor eCOGRA passed.
As 2010 dawns, land gambling operators in Australia continue to attack the government’s Productivity Commission recommendation that online gambling be legalised in the country.
The on again, off again, long running Thai government project to take the national lottery online was making local headlines in media like the Bangkok Post and The Nation again this week as Thai prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva announced yet another review of the delay-plagued project.
The Chinese government used an announcement of Internet pornography prosecution statistics this week as a further opportunity to caution that online pornography, gambling and “…other sites deemed harmful to society” remained its primary targets in the “purification of the Internet.”
The UK database marketing group CDMS has adopted the branding of Transactis, a pioneer in the marketing discipline that it acquired less than a year ago….and among its impressive clients is online gambling giant Betfair.
Online gambling group Leisure and Gaming plc has announced that its non-executive chairman, Philip Parker, has resigned as he advised he would do earlier this year and has now left the company.
Online gambling group Leisure and Gaming plc has announced that its non-executive chairman, Philip Parker, has resigned as he advised he would do earlier this year and has now left the company.
Joseph W. LaForte, a New York resident already serving a prison term on unrelated charges, admitted mid-week that he helped run an illegal offshore sportsbetting ring that operated in several states, including New Jersey.
The Italian business media are reporting an unsuccessful attempt to acquire control of the major Italian online sportsbetting firm Sindacato Nazionale Agenzie Ippiche SpA (SNAI) by private equity firms Bridgepoint and Axa Private Equity, who reportedly offered Euro 600 million.
Six days after a Powerball lottery draw in Australia, a thirty-something single mother has claimed the mother of all Christmas presents – a Powerball lottery win worth A$12 million.
The respected and long-established online sportsbetting firm Bookmaker.com has announced its acquisition of two well known sportsbetting brands, Las Palmas and Bet Canadian for an undisclosed consideration.
Farming-related applications are the most popular games on Chinese social networks, and the genre is booming on western sites like Facebook with offerings like Farmville, Farm Town and Country Story released by developers such as Zynga and Playfish.
The WinADay.com 3D online casino has launched a new slot machine dedicated to fans of mall shopping and branded Reel De Luxe. The new game is a 5 reel, 25 pay-line slot machine with two special bonus features and a bonus game.