The European Gaming and Betting Association (EGBA) has taken an official line on the European Commission’s detailed opinion against the Belgian proposal for online gaming and betting legislation, taking particular exception to provisions which are aimed at restricting the Belgian online gaming and betting market to operators solely established in that country.
The trading director at Gibraltar-based online gambling group 32Red.com, 48-year-old Martin Saunders, is departing for pastures new, and as yet unidentified, in the online gambling industry.
Online gambling software provider CryptoLogic Limited has signed a multi-year deal to provide at least 10 of its most popular online slot games to Victor Chandler Group, a major independent bookmaking and gaming group based in Gibraltar.
Rank plc subsidiary Mecca Bingo has a new boss. The UK online and land gambling group announced early this week that it has appointed Mark Jones (48) as the new md of Mecca Bingo, replacing Simon Wykes who left the company last month.
Online gambling games provider and distributor WagerWorks has announced the release of online ports of Barcrest Group’s leading UK branded game titles.
The online gambling media may have been following the story for months, but the draconian Russian ban on casinos in major cities has now caught the attention of the mainstream media in America, with the New York Times carrying a major story over the weekend.
More details have emerged on Betstopper – the anti-underage gaming software developed by InternetSafety.com for the Nova Scotia Gaming Corporation.
Credit Suisse this week expressed reservations about UK land and online gambling group Ladbroke’s ability to “tear customers away from online rivals”, reports The Times Online.
Online casino operator 32Red.com has passed the stringent PayPal acceptance criteria and is now offering PayPal facilities as a depositing and payment option to its clients.
Following the recent backdown over the presidential veto by President Viktor Kuschenko of the Ukraine, the gambling ban has been imposed with immediate effect in the Ukraine, reports Ukra News. And the ban includes online gambling.
Stephen Wong, writing in the publication Asia Times Online this week made the interesting observation that Communist Party aparatchiks and Chinese government officials could be turning to online gambling for their entertainment and profit in a reaction to government crackdowns on corruption and misappropriation of public funds.
There has been continued speculation this week on whether one of Britain’s biggest online and land gambling groups, William Hill plc, is getting set to move its online operations out of the UK.
The Australian online gambling group Centrebet could be on to a new line of fixed odds management business that has the potential to earn it solid profits, reports The Australian newspaper.
Andrew Twaits, boss of the Betfair online gambling group in Australia has stripped away the often deliberately misleading and confusing rumours about Betfair’s preparedness to pay its way in the competitive Australian horse racing industry.
Betfair was the subject of a glowing article in the publication Venture Beat this week which looked at the UK betting exchange’s astute move into American horse racing.
Think back to 2005, when software providers and operators alike were intrigued by statements from the Irish budget airline Ryanair’s Michael O’Leary that it planned to introduce a passenger service with a difference – in-flight gambling.
The magnitude of Russia’s decision to confine all land gambling to four geographic areas away from main population centres like Moscow and St Petersburg was underlined this week by an article in the St. Petersburg Times.
BetStopper, the Nova Scotia Gaming Corporation’s program to combat underage gambling, will be powered by InternetSafety.com developed software, the company announced this week.
Playtech plc’s chief finance officer Shuki Barak has revealed that the software developer has some ambitious spending plans in its acquisition strategies, with a number of targets in mind that include an as yet unidentified marketing business which could be the subject of a $750 million takeover deal
Internet sales of UK National Lottery tickets have grown by 31.8 percent over the past decade to GBP 488.2 million, Camelot, which operates the lottery for the British government, reported last week.
The popular European online gambling group 32Red.com (motto ‘second to none’, geddit?) has signed up as official club sponsor for the Swansea City football club for the next two seasons.
The economic crisis throughout the world and in the United States in particular has created a heavy workload for Congressman Barney Frank’s House Financial Services Committee, and that unfortunately means that his latest attempt to regulate and licence online gambling in the United States will have to be put on hold until September, the politician’s …
Industry observers this week have been surprised by the apparent hypocrisy of the United States government in protesting to China about its erosion of Internet freedom and trade restrictions, when it is itself the subject of severe criticism for its double standards on Internet gambling, both in its laws and its activities at the World …
Server based gaming provider BetStone.com is to open a new office in Mexico City to better service its customer base in Mexico and across Latin America, the company announced this week.