Dublin-based online gambling software and games developer CryptoLogic Limited has launched a new downloadable game lineup that features a video slot version of Jenga, one of the world’s most popular board games.
The tough economic times and growing competition in the UK are cited as reasons behind a 4 percent drop in 888.com’s Q1 2009 revenues to $57 million when compared with Q1 2008, the company revealed this week.
The publication Motley Fool, which has consistently punted online gambling stocks like GigaMedia, published an interesting perspective on the online gambling industry this week, quoting from the analyst Brean Murray.
Life-changing, multi-million-dollar progressive jackpot wins are for many gamblers the Holy Grail of gambling, and for online players it is no different.
The bingo operations of Irish online gambling group Paddy Power have been switched to a new platform, players were advised late last week.
Betfair’s latest US acquisition TVG and TrackNet Media Group LLC announced Friday a deal that allows TVG to accept online wagering on TrackNet affiliated tracks, including those operated by Churchill Downs Incorporated and Magna Entertainment Corp.
More details have emerged regarding the voluntary funding dispute between the international online betting exchange Betfair and Horse Racing Ireland.
Unusual betting event of the week has to be the Nenana Ice Classic, an annual event on which the folks in Alaska have a good-natured wager every year in trying to guess when the Tanana River ice will break.
Australian newspapers such as The Sunday Age and WA Today attacked the international gambling group Ladbrokes over the weekend, accusing the firm of breaking the law by encouraging Australians to gamble on the internet, and implying that this may act against its ambitions to obtain a Victorian land wagering licence.
Many online gamblers use social networking websites, and a cautionary article this week in Marketwatch will therefore be of interest.
Canada was at the epicentre of a state lottery scandal last year in which statistics showed that an unnaturally large percentage of lottery ticket sellers were winning prizes.
Bingo technology provider Virtue Fusion Alderney has announced the launch of its multi-currency, multi-lingual, networked software on Swedish gambling monopoly Svenska Spel’s new online Bingo website, Svenska Bingo.
Media reports last week that online gambling companies interested in the soon-to-regulated French Internet sector were already advertising in the region have been followed by the news that the French government has called a halt to the premature promotions.
Canadian delegates to the International Masters of Gaming Law Spring Conference in Windsor, Canada have revealed that the US anti-online gambling law the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act is disrupting not only American online horserace wagering and state lottery operations, but those in Canada as well.
The gates to ParaDice, the newest gaming platform at the Vienna-listed online gambling giant Bwin, are now open at https://games.bwin.com/dice.aspx following the launch this week.
A Las Vegas case filed in February against 52-year-old retired Omaha businessman and philanthropist Terry Watanabe will be heard on May 13 following a Grand Jury indictment this week on two counts of theft and two counts of bad cheques.
Irish on-course bookies and the online betting exchange Betfair appear set for a monumental row over fees paid to Horse Racing Ireland by the Internet gambling group.
The New Jersey authorities report the arrest of 28 persons this week, accused of involvement in a ‘Mafia-run’ sports gambling ring that handled more than $1 million in illegal wagers each week.
Mecca Bingo celebrated it’s newly revamped website this week with a major win of GBP 111 967, scooped by a player who had staked a mere GBP 1.80 in a late night bingo session.
The extraordinary attempt by the state of Minnesotas’s Alcohol & Gambling Enforcement Division to require ISPs and telecomms companies to block online gambling sites operating outside the states continued to dominate the headlines as the week ended, overshadowing even Barney Frank’s new bill attacking the UIGEA, which is scheduled for introduction next week.
Online bingo site Crown Bingo has reported its biggest ever pay out of GBP 240 561 to lucky member Glen Johnson of Bristol in England.
Vancouver, Canada-based online games developer BaddaMedia Inc. has signed an agreement to provide Gaming Technology Solutions plc with original games content.
Asia-facing online and land gambling group AsianLogic Limited has reported a 49 percent fall in adjusted pretax profit for 2008, following a significant increase in operational expenses and bad debt provisions.
The expanded online gambling services offered by UK Internet and land gambling group William Hill plc delivered an impressive rise in revenue of 50 percent, the company revealed this week in releasing its Q1 2009 numbers.