Online gambling software and games developer CryptoLogic has launched a new downloadable game lineup that features a video slot version of the world-famous Street Fighter IV, along with new video slot games Savannah Sunrise, Cleo “Crazy Jackpots”, Area 21 and updated versions of perennial favourites Caribbean Stud Poker, American Roulette and Video Poker.
Recent speculation that William Hill plc would move its online operations to Gibraltar to better compete in a kinder tax climate were confirmed today (Tuesday) in a statement from the company.
Bringit.com, whose business model envisages video gamers betting on the outcome of online matches between members utilising the “skill” loophole, is a step closer to full operations this week as it launches in Beta mode.
One of online gambling’s biggest opponents, the US National Football League, says it wants to keep betting out of the game to preserve its integrity, yet it has embraced the revenue-earning possibilities for its premier teams of betting on lottery scratch-cards.
Fraudsters who rigged ATM machines at hotel venues in Las Vegas last week appeared to be targeting their “white hat” colleagues in the business on one incident, where the venue was the scene of the Black Hat USA and Defcon hacker conference.
The UK-based online gambling information portal Gaming Alerts.co.uk has strengthened its links with Brit gambling group Ladbrokes by launching a competition on the social networking site Twitter.com.
Online gambling group 888 Holdings plc reported this week that the industry has been impacted by slowing economies and a drop in consumer spending during what it describes as the worst recession since World War II.
Last week’s news that Gamesys had changed agencies for its Jackpot Joy advertising has been followed by reports in several UK marketing publications that Gala Coral is about to make some media planning and buying changes too.
Three more Democrat state representatives have joined the growing throng of politicians expressing support for Barney Frank’s HR 2267 proposal to legalise and regulate online gambling in the United States, bringing to 54 the number of co-sponsors so far.
The Nottingham Evening Pose newspaper reports that football club Nottingham Forest is having to remove the logo of recently signed sponsor Victor Chandler from children’s replica shirts to avoid breaching advertising guidelines.
Comments by senior executives and industry speculation earlier this year that major UK gambling companies may be headed to kinder tax climes appear to have been confirmed over the weekend with reports in several major UK newspapers.
Industry observers were trying to identify which online gambling establishment could be involved in a Kansas Grand Jury investigation following reports in the Kansas City Star as the week ended.
Another New York Congressman has signed on as a co-sponsor for Barney Frank’s HR2267, which seeks to legalise and regulate online gambling in the United States.
The improved version of the www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk website will begin to go live this weekend – a slight delay to the timetable set out a fortnight ago.
Industry rumour that the UK government may be considering its tax options on offshore Internet gambling companies which advertise and benefit from betting by UK punters took on more substance this week when an official from HM Revenues and Customs confirmed that research was being done on the subject.
The UK land and online gambling group Rank Group plc published its half-year results for the six months ended 30 June 2009 on Friday, with its online division recording an 8 percent decline to GBP 24.9 million (H1 2008: GBP 27 millon). Operating profit fell 14 percent to GBP 3 million (H1 2008: GBP 3.5 …
Smart online gambling operators will be paying a lot more attention to the security of player information on their websites – and those who are making such information available to third parties will have pause for thought – following the results of a YouGov study earlier this year in collaboration with VeriSign.
The news earlier this week that financial spreadbetting has surged, with a 134 percent increase in the number of trades has been followed by reports from the Isle of Man that the UK-based spreadbetting company IG Group has acquired software and domain assets for Bets For Traders.com, owned by the IoM company Trinitas Capital Limited.
Socal networkers will soon have new casual games from Flash technology games developer BaddaMedia following a deal inked this week with the Vancouver, Canada-based social networking developer Ayogo Inc.
Another new scratchcard game has been released by the Israeli-Malta firm NeoGames, this one called ‘Mister Joker’.
UK based interactive television and online gambling firm Skybet says that improving its market share combined with strong branding and a successful year in online casino and sportsbetting operations has enabled the company to grow revenues despite a decline in interactive television betting.
The still restrictive laws on offering online gambling to Italians could be in for a more enlightened remake, industry observers are speculating. And it could happen before the end of this (2009) year.
In Minnesota, six lottery ticket retailers have admitted guilt and been convicted on charges of trying to claim customers’ ticket wins as their own, reports the Pioneer Press.
For some months now the unofficial news has been that the island of Jersey – off the French coast in the Channel Isles – has ambitions to become an Internet gambling licensing jurisdiction.