Newspaper poll produces overwhelming support for licensing and regulation of online gambling.
The online betting group Betfair has secured a reportedly six-figure deal with the British radio station TalkSport which will make the betting company the station’s official betting partner for weekend Premier League football coverage.
Online gambling software provider Cryptologic has signed a three-year agreement to license its full Internet casino suite to Betsafe.com, a Malta-based online gaming operator with a growing customer base of over 250 000 players.
Police operating in the Kuantang province of Malaysia have arrested 14 people in raids Monday and Tuesday in the Cameron Highlands as part of an effort to wipe out Internet gambling in the state, reports the Malaysian newspaper The Star.
Moving on from its clash in the courts with the national sports leagues the state of Delaware has released details of what sort of sportsbetting it will offer as it debuts the new sports lottery service this week.
Affiliate marketer uncertainties over the SmartLive Casino affiliate program may have been allayed by a further statement from the new management this week following the sudden departure of the last md recently.
Male, female and youth teams in the Bulgarian Football Union will be sponsored for the next three years by the Sofia-based EuroFootball sportsbetting company following an agreement signed last week.
Candian bingo software developer Parlay Entertainment is experiencing tough times, judging by its latest financial disclosures, which reveal that the firm has sustained a 93 percent drop in revenues in Q2 2009 compared with the same period in 2008.
Delegates to the EiG conference and exppo in Copenhagen next week will be amoing the first to see the latest two 3d slot games released by Betsoft Gaming, branded Once Upon a Time and Barbary Coast.
BrightShare Ltd. operating as Brightshare.com has become the third online gambling affiliate program to receive eCOGRA’s Affiliate Trust seal following rigorous inspection and monitoring by the independent player protection and standards body’s professional compliance teams.
The Vienna-listed online gambling group Bwin has added its arguments to those of the European Gaming and Betting Association regarding the European Court of Justice’s finding on its legal clash with the Portuguese state gambling monopoly Santa Casa.
More clarity on the position of Ivobank has been achieved following a further statement from the online bank, advising that following a ‘strategic decision’ by the owners – the Indonesian billionaire family Sampoernas – the bank will be closing in an orderly manner.
The long-running litigation between Austrian online gambling giant Bwin and the Portuguese state betting monopoly Santa Casa has entered a new and negative phase following a ruling from the European Court of Justice.
A gimmicky but entertaining addition has been made to this Wednesday’s National Lottery draw in the United Kingdom – popular illusionist Derren Brown claims he will successfully predict all six Lottery numbers live on TV minutes before the draw for a GBP 2.4 million jackpot.
Launched late last year with massive publicity and plenty of commercial hype, the online banking operation Ivobank – owned by the Indonesian billionaire Sampoerna family – appeared to be going from strength to strength with a list of gilt-edged online gambling clients that included some of the top companies in the business.
Online gambling software provider Connective Games.com has hired niche i-gaming marketing agency GameOn Marketing – to handle its marketing, PR and event management activities.
Virtue Fusion Alderney continues to enjoy popularity in the online bingo space, and has reported that its latest licensee is Begawin.com, a Malta-licensed Spanish-facing operator launched in 2007 which also offers online casino and sportsbetting action.
Vienna-listed online gambling group Bwin has scored a major coup and some formidable positioning in the Italian market following an agreement to acquire the Italian group Gioco Digitale. With hopes high for an imminent and positive regulatory system in Italy the agreement is especially valuable and significant.
The UK interactive gambling television deal between broadcaster Five and interactive gambling group NetPlayTV comes to fruition this month when NetPlay’s SuperCasino.com show flights between midnight and 4am three nights a week starting September 17.
The announcement by the Argentinian Presidential Cabinet Chief Anibal Fernandez recently that Argentina was about to switch to a more sensible regulatory strategy for online gambling has been followed by further information that the legislation has been approved.
The long-running Kentucky vs. online gambling dispute over an attempt to seize international domains will again rear its ugly head on October 22nd 2009 as Governor Steve Beshear attempts to justify his actions before the Kentucky Supreme Court.
The latest online gambling business to follow the trend of sponsoring European football clubs is the Finnish gambling monopoly Alands Penningautomatforening (PAF).
The cancellation of the SmartLive casino affiliate program and the subsequent departure of the company’s md over reported differences with owner Kasim Garipogula entered a new phase as the week ended with Income Access weighing in on the dispute.
The hardships of a tough business and economic climate were apparent in the H1 2009 unaudited results released by Betbull this week, which showed a 28.6 percent drop in net gaming revenues to Euro 6.025 million (H1 2008: Euro 8,388 million).