Perhaps better known for its online poker operations, where it is fast making a name for itself, Chilli Gaming of Malta is moving into the online bingo sector, and has chosen Parlay Entertainment as the technology to support it.
The British Columbia Lottery Corporation in Vancouver, Canada has launched a new initiative aimed at promoting responsiblke gambling, branded “Game Sense”. The program will include extensive use of media and public service television advertisements.
The National Centre for Social Research, acting on behalf of the UK Gambling Commission has completed a study of 43 gamblers designed to “provide further insight into participants’ gambling behaviour” and, where relevant, “to explore the downsides of gambling”.
The British government’s Sports Minister, Gerry Sutcliffe, has reacted to fears regarding the danger of gambling corruption in sport by setting up an advisory panel headed by former Liverpool football chief executive Rick Parry, reports the Daily Telegraph.
The sophisticated software systems at major online betting exchange Betfair.com have again proved their value to the wider gambling industry by alerting tennis watchdog officials to suspicious betting action.
The Pennsylvania state legislature is considering a new law designed to better insulate public officials from gambling industry inducements, reports Business Week.
ESPN reports that a legal challenge based on the constitutionality of the 1992 Professional Amateur Sports Protection Act and lodged by New Jersey Senator Ray Lesniak earlier this year is to be supporter by the state’s governor, Jon Corzine.
The Interactive Media Entertainment & Gaming Association (iMEGA) has announced that its challenge to the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act in the form of an appeal action against the US Department of Justice has been set down for July 7th 2009 at 10.00 am, when arguments from the parties will be heard at the US …
Few in the affiliate marketing sector, or for that matter the online gambling industry in general, will be unfamiliar with the name of Debbee Silverman, a highly experienced and competent marketer who is a familiar face at major industry events.
The major British online and land gambling group William Hill plc could be getting a brand brush-up in the near future following the appointment of consultants Wolff Olins this week.
Governor Steve Beshear of Kentucky – the politician who made an unprecedented (and so far unsuccessful) attempt to hijack the international domain names of online gambling companies last year – has suffered another defeat, this time at the hands of the Kentucky Senate.
According to reports in Ukra News the stand-off between Ukraine president Viktor Yuschenko and the opposition political party over the immediate closure of all gambling venues located in residential areas has ended in defeat for the president, who had earlier exercised his right of veto after the Verkhovna Rada voted for the new law on …
Virtue Fusion Alderney, the burgeoning supplier of Internet bingo solutions to several major online gambling groups, cracked the Best Bingo Software 2009 award at the annual Online Bingo Summit held June 16 at the Millennium Gloucester Hotel in London.
The Copenhagen Post newspaper in Denmark reports that the state gambling monopoly Danske Spil is to head a new organisation aimed at curbing corruption in European football. The newly-created monitoring body will seek to prevent match fixing by referees and players.
The chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, Democrat Congressman Barney Frank, said this week that the recent seizure of millions of dollars in online poker payments only strengthens his hand because it reminds voters and politicians how sweeping – and potentially unclear – the existing law is.
The dynamic interactive television gambling group NetPlayTV plc has it’s next venture lined up – an initiative aimed at exploiting more enlightened media guidelines in the UK by launching the first interactive gambling offering on UK terrestrial television.
Slotland.com has reported another big win on its Megaspin progressive, with player NYNYman collecting a check for $169 923, the fruit of an online gambling session taken to pass the time whilst he was off work with suspected ‘flu.
The BetonSports.com online gambling debacle was in the news again this week as the St. Louis Courier-Dispatch reported that the brother, sister and former personal assistant of Gary Kaplan, the founder of the now liquidated online gaming company, pleaded guilty Monday and agreed to forfeit millions of dollars in gambling profits.
The new live dealer casino operator Caribbean Casino and Gaming Corporation is interested in more than just Internet gambling, it appears.
Spider-Man, The Incredible Hulk, X-Men and other comic book heroes will be staying on with Internet gambling software developer CryptoLogic until 2013, the company announced this week, revealing that it has extended its exclusive licensing agreement with Marvel Entertainment, Inc., a relationship that has produced some of the company’s most popular and profitable games.
Clive Jones, the chairman of UK interactive television and internet gambling group NetPlayTV was not exaggerating this week when he described the company’s performance as “coming of age’. With turnover soaring 118 percent to GBP 19.8 million and EBITDA climbing 241 percent to GBP2.4 million, it seems that the company has upped its performance despite …
The UK operations of the IGT group have restructured mobile and internet gaming activities to better integrate the British division of online gambling software developer Wagerworks and the recently acquired Million-2-1 gaming mobile gambling operation.
The Malaysian deputy minister for federal territories, Datuk M. Saravanan has made the claim that almost 90 percent of cyber cafes in the capital city of Kuala Lumpur are taking part in illegal online gambling activities by including gambling software on their computers.
Malta’s Independent newspaper makes good weekend reading this week with an article by David Lindsay on the impact of US discriminatory laws against online gambling operators in licensing jurisdictions like Malta, Gibraltar and the UK, and to a lesser extent Ireland, Sweden, Cyprus and Austria.