The management at Royal Ace Casino reports that one of its players, Hasmik L.A.S. of California, had a field day on the slots on September 25th, turning a $200 original stake into $400 000 over a three day blitz.
The growing importance of Paddy Power group’s online gambling operations was emphasised by CEO Patrick Kennedy in an interview with Bloombergs business news this week.
NetplayTV plc, an interactive television gambling group that is usually the bearer of acquisitive and good news for investors, has posted a GBP 3.2 million loss in its half year results, due mainly to the one-off cost of restructuring the company to take advantage of the more liberalised television regime in the UK.
The warrants to 2 500 000 class B shares in gambling group Entraction are being sold by the Global Betting Exchange Group (GBE), the parent company of Betdaq back to the company for a price SEK21 per share (Euro 2.1) currently valued at around SEK 80 million.
The online gambling industry has come out with guns firing following uninformed claims in the British press this week that UK sports face an increased threat of match-fixing as a result of the relocation offshore of major Internet gambling groups like William Hill Online and Ladbrokes.
Server Based Gaming specialists Inspired Gaming Group has inked a partnership deal with the UK-based games developer Blueprint Entertainment UK Ltd through which Blueprint will exclusively provide Inspired with new content for LBO, SBG Bingo and VLT terminals due to be rolled out across Italy in 2010.
The UK online payments group Neovia Financials plc has partnered with e-cash services group PayPal in an agreement which will increase the facilities available to users and create more business opportunities for merchants.
In a briefing to Iowa state leadership, the chief executive of the state lottery, Terry Rich, has opined that HR2267, a bill authored by Representative Barney Frank to legalise online gambling in the USA could be passed as a federal law.
With parliamentary business on Malta back on track after the summer recess, the proliferation of betting shops on the Mediterranean island has been high on the debate list this week.
In what appears to be a public riposte to attacks on its move offshore by UK racing bodies, William Hill’s CEO Ralph Topping this week expanded on the reasons behind the move, starting with the assertion that the online gambling business offers great opportunities but is intensely competitive.
The state of Delaware’s appeal of a ruling that its plan to allow betting on professional sports violates a federal ban will not be heard, a federal court ruled on Tuesday, reports the Reuters news agency.
True to its boasts at the recent industry showcase EiG in Copenhagen, online gambling software provider Playtech has released the first two of a long series of new Marvel themed slots in the form of “Iron Man” and “The Incredible Hulk”.
Internet gambling software developer Rival Gaming has followed its recent launch of the slots Spy Game and Moonlight Mystery with a new 20-liner branded ‘Fixer Upper’.
The Swedish online gambling software developer Play ‘n Go has capped a busy Casino 1.9 games release schedule with the launch of what it claims is the world’s first multi-player casino network.
Austrian online gambling group Bwin has secured a three-year extension to its sponsorship agreement with the top Spanish football club Real Madrid.
It appears that the Russian based online gambling software provider, Connective Games is trawling for partners to help achieve its ambitions in setting up an Asian facing i-gambling network, judging by press release material this week from its marketing outlet Game-On.
In only two short months the online gambling industry has seen an avalanche of new games of all types from a wide range of Internet gambling software providers.
Endemol UK, a leader in entertainment programming has announced it has signed an exclusive brand and software licence agreement with global online bingo licensor Virtue Fusion (Alderney).
Dragonfish, the quaintly named business-to-business division of online gambling group 888.com, has secured another major deal, this time with the South African land gambling group Tsogo Sun Gaming.
Online gambling software provider Cryptologic has announced the signing of a multi-year licensing deal with Virgin Games, part of the Virgin Group.
Inspiring reading this weekend included a piece in the Birmingham Post quoting from an Ernst and Young survey which found that online gambling remains one of the brighter spots in the e-commerce and gambling sectors.
8,26 million South Koreans went gambling last (2008) year, recording another annual increase in the number of local residents gambling at legal establishments in the Asian country, according to a report released this week by the National Tax Service.
Online gambling group Gaming VC Holdings S.A., has released its interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2009.
The popular Vancouver Sun columnist David Baines renewed his call for online gambling regulation in Canada over the weekend, using the re-launch of the Bodog brand in the Canadian market as a peg on which to hang his appeal.