The European Gaming and Betting Association (EGBA) has reacted quickly to yesterday’s announcement that the European Commission is not satisfied with the first draft of the French legislation designed to open up the market in that country.
Our readers will recall our report on the desire of NFL teams to get involved in online betting partnerships with state lotteries despite the League’s virulent opposition to Internet gambling.
The Internet freedom pressure group reports that the order to Internet service providers to enforce a “black list” of badly researched online gambling websites has been rescinded by the Minnesota Department of Public Safety (DPS).
With the latest disappointing land casino results in from Nevada, it’s likely that operators in the gambling state will be hoping for a boost to revenues following this (June) month’s World Series of Poker currently running in Las Vegas.
The UK skill game provider GameAccount Network has launched a suite of free-to-play skill-based games for Sisal.it, an online sportsbook operator in Italy.
The Australian province of Victoria will soon join fellow states New South Wales and South Australia in banning the offering of free bets to new gamblers, reports the Herald Sun newspaper this week. Legislation now before the State Parliament will make it illegal for bookmakers to offer inducements to new punters.
The London-listed interactive media gaming company, NetplayTV plc has appointed Clive William Jones CBE (Commander of the British Empire) as its non-executive chairman with immediate effect. Martin Higginson will continue to exercise his responsibilities as Chief Executive Officer.
GTECH, a global provider of lottery and gaming technology worldwide, has officially launched G2, its new interactive lottery, sports betting, poker, bingo, and casino subsidiary.
Rank plc, the British online and land gambling group, will be celebrating this week after the High Court in the UK rejected an appeal by Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs against a VAT & Duties Tribunal ruling which had approved the company’s GBP 59.1 million VAT refund claim.
French legal drafters will be back at the drawing board this week following the rejection of their first proposals for the liberalisation and regulation of the French gambling market by the European Commission.
The PartyGaming Internet gambling group has started the week in a positive way, announcing that it has signed an exclusive agreement with the UK-based television network Channel 5 Broadcasting Ltd to create a “Five”-branded online bingo and casino service targeting the British market.
When a 66 year-old South African grandmother in the city of Kimberley, South Africa hit a large progressive slot jackpot at African Palace Casino.com on November 7th last year she thought her financial worries were over, but this week reports in the South African Sunday Times newspaper indicated that they may have only just begun.
The much publicised deal between Playtech and William Hill plc earlier this year saw a few “purchased assets” change hands as the giant British gambling group formed William Hill Online. It now turns out that some of the “purchased assets” may have been brands with a questionable past.
The Irish online spreadbetting company Worldspreads has hired Douglas Woods, a former sales trader with rival CMC Markets, to head up a new operation as the firm expands into Scotland, reports The Scotsman newspaper.
One of the biggest undivided lottery jackpots in US history totalling $232 million has been won on a stake of $15 by a battling 23-year-old rancher near the town of Winner, South Dakota.
It appears that the Poker Players Alliance claim to victory in short-circuiting a Minnesota enforcement department attempt to blacklist Internet gambling operations at ISP level may have been premature.
Senator Ray Lesniak’s push for the legalisation of sports betting in the state of Jersey received a major boost this week when Governor Jon Corzine announced his support.
International professional business services group PricewaterhouseCoopers has announced the appointment of David Trunkfield as the new head of gaming for the United Kingdom.
Internet gambling games and systems developer Gaming Technology Solutions plc has announced the extension of its contract to supply games to the major European gambling group Bwin Interactive Entertainment AG.
The rather hysterical rush by the Verkhovna Rada to immediately ban gambling in the Ukraine which took place earlier this month has been stopped in its tracks by President Viktor Yuschenko, who exercised his right to veto after discussions with the Eastern European country’s gambling industry.
The situation over the state of Minnesota’s attempt to have ISPs block a badly researched list of some 200 online gambling websites was confused as we went to press this Friday.
The Isle of Man-based Internet sportsbetting firm 188Bet has agreed to sponsor not one, but two Premier League football teams in deals signed this week with Bolton Wanderers and Wigan Athletic.
Yet another US state could soon be offering online wagering on horse-racing, taking avantage of notorious carve-outs in federal anti-Internet gambling laws.
Undercover Pinellas County sheriff’s deputies removed numerous computers and computer equipment from two computer entertainment centres this week, claiming that they were closing down illegal Internet gambling operations.