Shocking news reported by The Guardian newspaper at the weekend was that a UK Gambling Commission undercover initiative has exposed a stunning disregard for underage exclusions at most of the UK’s bookie shops.
Online gambling software developer Vegas Technology has released four new online slots with a diversity of themes in Monster Money, Salsa, Jungle King and La Fiesta.
Harrah’s Interactive Entertainment, the new division set up by the giant US gambling group to handle its future online gambling enterprises, will be headquartered outside the United States in Montreal, according to reports this week in the Montreal Gazette.
The Herald Sun newspaper in Victoria, Australia reports that Tabcorp is gearing up to answer the growing competitive threat of corporate bookmakers. It response is to give notice of its intentions to offer fixed odds on every race in all three codes by the end of the year.
Four major online bingo affiliate marketers who together claim to generate 80 percent of traffic to bingo websites in the UK are considering a collaborative approach to negotiating reward terms with bingo site operators, reports eGaming Review.
Earlier this week we reported on the case of an Australian grandmother who managed to claim a $2 million lottery prize after finding a four-year-old Powerball ticket during a clean-out. Days later, Australia produced yet another heart-warming story of an even bigger lottery win on an old ticket.
Skill gaming site World Winner.com and Sony Pictures Consumer Products have announced that the popular and long-established Jeopardy! cash competitions are now available online, for the first time enabling game lovers to put their knowledge to the test and play to win real cash and prizes by outscoring Internet opponents.
The Chronicle Herald newspaper in the Nova Scotia province of Canada reports that new software effective in blocking underage gambling has been developed by an American company commissioned by the Nova Scotia Gaming Corporation.
The Canadian Internet bingo software developer Parlay Entertainment has reported another disappointing quarterly result in its numbers for Q1 2009, with revenues declining to $1 million (Q1 2008: $2 million).
The legalisation of sportsbetting in Delaware successfully passed through its final stages into law this week as the Delaware Supreme Court ruled that the legislation does not conflict with the state constitution, paving the way for Delaware to become the only state east of the Rocky Mountains to allow wagering on the outcome of games.
The giant satellite channel Eurosport is to launch an online betting service after being granted an Alderney e-gambling licence.
The Greek OPAP company, which has a contentious state monopoly in the country’s gambling industry, has posted a positive Q1 2009, with revenues and net profits both up.
The blog at Reason.com provided some interesting reading on the impact of U.S. online gambling legalisation this week, airing some previously unpublished views by gambling law expert Prof. I. Nelson Rose, whom it quoted as saying: “…the federal government will end up doing nothing, except for a little unnecessary duplication of effort to make it …
The Interactive Media Entertainment & Gaming Association (iMEGA) has submitted its brief to the Kentucky State Supreme Court in good time for the June 1st deadline for submissions, in its opposition to an attempt by Gov. Steven Beshear to seize the rights to 141 Internet domain names.
The affiliate marketing program Income Access has released the details of another innovative study it has conducted, this one on affiliate preferences and demographics.
The Asia-facing online gambling group AsianLogic plc, which was accepted on to the London AIM stock exchange at the end of 2007, plans to delist as soon as it has the approval of 75 percent of its shareholders, the company announced this week.
The French media are reporting that Mangas Gaming, which owns important European Internet gambling operations such as Betclick, Bet-at-Home and Expekt has appointed Nicolas Béraud as chief operating officer of the group, and Juliette de la Noue as head of corporate and social responsibility.
A retired Australian grandmother residing in the New South Wales province had the last laugh on a doubting husband when she decided to check out a four year old Powerball ticket the couple found in a drawer during a clean-out.
According to reports in journals and information sites such as dslreports.com, Minnesota’s Department of Public Safety may have bitten off rather more than it can chew in ordering 11 ISPs in the state to block an inaccurate and badly researched list of 200 online gambling websites from subscribers resident in the American state.
The Straits Times reports that Singapore police raided the land base of an Internet sports gambling ring as the week commenced, arresting 10 men and confiscating cash and computer-related property.
The Australian arm of the international gambling group Intralot had the embarrassment of being slapped with a A$30 000 fine by the Victorian state government this week for failing to run a televised bingo game as promised, reports the Australian newspaper TheAge.
One of Australian online sportsbetting group Centrebet’s prime acquisition targets for the past few months, International All Sports, is off the list following Paddy Power’s successful bid to gain a major interest in the company through Sportsbet, and Centrebet is now looking elsewhere, the company announced this week.
The chief executive of Nordicbet.com, Per Helberg, announced a strategic move for his company this week as it expanded beyond its usual Baltic and Scandinavian markets and moved into Poland.
The Australian government is still wrestling with its attempt to censor the Internet and the huge domestic and international outcry it has generated.