Online gambling software developer and provider Microgaming has launched eight new Bingo side games that include video slots, scratchcards, casual games and UK-pub style slot games.
Agence France Presse reports that a member of the Australian cricket team was reportedly approached in the team hotel by a man suspected of links to illegal bookmaking.
In New South Wales, Australia, a furore has broken out over alleged deceptive advertising involving a well known Internet marketing agency, with Gaming and Racing minister Kevin Greene stepping in to ask legitimate online gambling websites to end any financial association with the offending site.
Slotland’s 3D online casino WinADay.com reported another big winner this week, the sites fourth major progressive jackpot hit this year.
January’s Earls Court exhibitions, ATEI and IGE, have been 80 percent booked…..five months ahead of the international spectacular opening its doors to buyers from 100-plus nations.
Internet gambling grop William Hill Online has signed on as a last-minute sponsor for La Vuelta, one of the world’s premier road cycling races, reports Sports Pro Media.
Last week we reported on the sale of the veteran sportsbetting information site Bookmaker’s Review by founder Pierluigi Buccioli to the American owned but BVI-registered company Seven Media Group. On the heels of that announcement, Bucceioli has revealed his next enterprise – an online live domain auction site branded GamblingInvest.com.
Italy’s multi-million Euro SuperEnalotto main prize is still up for grabs, soaring to a record Euros 139.9 million this week after failing to find a six-number winner in the draw on Monday night.
The online division of major UK gambling group Ladbrokes plc has inked a three year licensee deal with software provider Cryptologic for three of its most popular betting games, Bejeweled, Cubis and Jenga, for inclusion on the Ladbrokes Games.com website.
Affiliate marketers – individual companies and webmasters who use their Internet websites to promote online gambling venues and direct would-be players to them – are becoming increasingly perturbed at the antics of affiliate programs – companies set up by casinos and poker rooms to provide marketing aids and administer payment to affiliate marketers.
The past few weeks have delivered a treasure chest full of great new games from the online gambling industry’s major gambling software developers and providers, boosting once again the wide choices available to online gamblers.
Among a number of interesting articles on Internet gambling this week was a piece published by the Silicon Republic.com on opportunities for Ireland in the online gambling industry.
Interesting industry reading over the weekend came from the British newspaper The Telegraph, which carried an article on the lobbying investment being made by UK groups interested in helping to shape American legislation on Internet gambling.
Marcus Holmström, a spokesman for the sportsbetting information portal Punter’s Realm, claims that the recent revamp of the website has made it far more user-useful for punters, with new features designed to put control of content in the hands of the users, remembering their preferences for future use.
The legal tussle between the major US sports leagues and the state of Delaware intensified as the week ended, with the leagues gaining the advantage in their request for an urgent appeal hearing for an injunction stopping Delaware from implementing newly approved state laws permitting sports betting.
Online gamblers can benefit from a timely reminder that appeared on the respected message board twoplustwo this week here: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/29/news-views-gossip/breathalyzer-lock-pc-559263/.
Betfair execs were no doubt celebrating this week following the announcement that the UK online betting group has been selected as a sponsor by the world famous football club Manchester United.
UK football fanatics will be able to use their in-depth player knowledge to good effect at the Coral betting group following its deal with FSB Technology this week.
GTech-Boss Media’s new “X Factor Steps to Stardom” slots game has been shrewdly timed to launch this week on the International Bingo Network as the new X Factor TV series begins on UK television.
The mainstream media are carrying a dramatic story which surfaced late Friday in which BetOnSports plc founder Gary Kaplan pleaded guilty to federal racketeering conspiracy and other charges.
Bodog’s online casino operation reports this week that Diane J. of Illinois lucked into a Let Em Ride windfall, winning $99 395.
Fine wine exchange Liv-ex has entered into a partnership with Matchbet allowing people to place bets on the level of the Liv-ex 100 Fine Wine Index at the end of each month.
Religious spokesmen are condemning it, other Europeans are flying in to buy tickets and lotto frenzy continued to build in Italy as the week ended with the news that Thursday’s draw of the Italian Superenalotto once again failed to find a winner, boosting the prize to a new record of Euros 131.9 million (GBP 117 …
The attempt by major US sports leagues to appeal for an urgent injunction to stop the state of Delaware from going ahead with its sportsbetting plans prior to a hearing December 7th is being opposed by state lawyers.