The earthquake-devastated town of Arsita in the Abruzzo region of Italy will soon have a rebuilt primary school thanks to the generosity of a UK online gambling company.
Online bingo business Wink Bingo.com, which operates on 888.com’s Dragonfish network, has been sold by owners Daub Limited to 888.com for GBP 59.7 million.
Recent moves by the state of Kentucky to claim jurisdiction in its domain case appeal because unidentified domain owners were Americans is under the media spotlight once again.
The spunky defiance of Swedish online gambling group Betsson in opening a land betting shop in Stockholm in the face of gaming authority threats has ended, eighteen months after it began.
The online division of UK gambling group Ladbrokes reports that it has secured a licence from the Italian regulator AAMS to operate a dedicated poker tournament service in Italy.
Gigamedia, parent to major online companies like Everest Gaming, has announced its Q3 2009 results, reporting on the second and third quarters, with Q2 revenues at $37.7 million and EBITDA of $2.3 million, but less encouraging third-quarter revenues of $37.2 million and negative EBITDA of $10 000.
Effective January 4, 2010 the Swedish online gambling software provider Net Entertainment will be upgraded from the Nasdaq OMX Stockholm small cap list to the mid cap list.
A decision in the Philippine Supreme Court this week will do little to reassure foreign high rollers taking advantage of ‘whale’ junkets to the Asian region.
The battle for control of the UK online and land gambling group Gala Coral took an unexpected twist this week when the US-based private equity firm Apollo made its unexpected move, offering GBP 250 million to secure 50 percent of the gambling company’s shares.
The UK Gambling Commission has announced the suspension of its licence to Paradise Bet Limited, a Hounslow bookie firm that also operates websites such as ParadiseBet.com and Bet 1128.
The UK Gambling Commission plans to get he new year off to a flying start with some fresh numbers, promising to publish data from three omnibus surveys early in 2010 in addition to its quarterly data on remote gambling participation.
The US national sports leagues have long opposed Internet gambling, but a recent Sports Illustrated interview with NBA Commissioner David Stern gave the perception that attitudes may be softening.
The market for illegal private gambling on horse races in Korea could be as high as 30 trillion won ($25.5 billion), four times ‘legal’ sales at the state-owned monopoly, according to Korea Racing Authority numbers released this week.
The Statesville Record & Landmark nespaper in North Carolina reports that the former branch manager at the Piedmont Bank in the city has been dismissed and stands accused of stealing money from her parents and customers to pay online gambling obligations.
The solid results in Sportingbet’s Q1 have continued, and trading across the business is in line with management expectations, investors were informed this week by chairman Peter Dicks, who told the agm that the company remains confident of achieving a satisfactory outcome for the current financial year.
The Gibraltar-based online gambling group Party Gaming plc issued a bullish trading update as the week closed, announcing that trading since the end of September 2009 has been solid. While revenue is expected to be in line with the Board’s expectations, Clean EBITDA for the year to 31 December 2009 is expected to be slightly …
Unibet’s experienced head of online marketing, Magnus Oldby, is to leave the group for pastures greener – specifically Bodog Europe – commencing duties as marketing manager in March 2010.
The Dutch government’s efforts to maintain the state monopoly on online gambling were given a boost Thursday when the advocate general of the European Court of Justice opined that EU member states can grant a single operator the right to run betting and gaming as a monopoly.
Despite the tough business environment, the European-facing online gambling group Gaming VC Holdings SA appears to be holding its own in a trading update issued midway through the final month of its trading year.
Emails to affiliates on its defunct Grand Prive Affiliate Program were sent out by the Grand Prive group this week in addition to an earlier press release from the group alerting former affiliates to claiming possibilities.
A controlling interest in Nasdaq-listed Asian group Gigamedia’s online gambling software interests, on the market for some months, has been achieved by the French Internet gambling group Mangas Gaming.
IGE 2010 will see the launch of a new kid on the Internet gambling white label block in the form of Plus-Five Gaming, a new UK based company that partners with AliQuantum Gaming.
Mr Green.com, the award winning Swedish online casino founded by two of the Betsson pioneers, is expanding into the United Kingdom market, and has hired former Microsoft manager Kat McClure to head up the initiative.
French gamblers have been following a novel case in the south western city of Montpellier, which culminated in a legal ruling this week following litigation between a man and a woman over a slot machine jackpot.