America’s Gulf Coast region land casinos continued to battle with the effects of the recession through March 2009, suffering a 16 percent drop in revenues compared to March 2008, according to local media reports and official statistics.
Some folks just never seem to learn; the land gambling giant MGM Mirage is currently pursuing its second cybersquatting action against a Panamanian resident named Susana Gonzales and a company with the apparent misnomer of Smart Answer SA (see Station Casinos, Inc. v. Smart Answer, S.A. et al., Case 09-cv-00692S (D. Nev.) and Court Case …
Following an international competitive process, Intralot S.A. has been selected by Hrvatska Lutrija, the department responsible for the Croatian State Lottery, as the successful provider of a complete interactive gaming system and new-generation 3D Internet games.
The UK online gambling group Virgin Games has embarked on an initiative to significantly increase its online gambling search engine visibility, hiring the London specialist agency Latitude for the purpose.
The gambling news keeps coming thick and fast from the Scandinavian nations, with new revelations on the status of the Danish industry the latest to emerge.
The online gambling industry information publication Interactive Gaming News extracted some interesting information from U.S. mandatory lobbying disclosures by gambling organisations this week, delving into the submissions made in compliance with the Lobbying Disclosure Act.
The astonishingly public and unprofessional management disputes at Casino Affiliate Programs – a community and business organisation for affiliates and programs in the industry – may have gone quiet recently, but the repercussions continue, it appears.
European online gambling group Gaming VC, has posted preliminary results for the year ended 31 December 2008 and Q1 2009 trading update showing a pretax profit of Euro 16 million.
A treatment centre for gambling addicts in southern Sweden has beaten state gambling monopoly Svenska Spel in a brand dispute, reports the English language newspaper TheLocal.se this week.
Alwyn Morris, CEO of Morris Mohawk Gaming Group in Kahnawake, which licenses the Bodog brands in North America, has retrieved the still valuable domains lost to a default judgement obtained by First Technology LLC two years ago.
Kudos to Simon Collins, a director of the online gambling company Cashcade, who this week did something constructive on perceptions of the industry in an op-ed article for The Independent newspaper in the UK.
In it’s first Quarter 1 2009 report on search marketing, specialist Clickthrough Marketing this week notes that against all the current economic odds, the major online betting companies are more than holding their own in a business sense.
Alex Czajkowski, CEO of eGaming 2.0’s new 3D online casino Buzzluck.com has developed an appealing promo for his players through a competition where the winner will be virtually copied to become part of the casino’s virtual 3D lobby.
The critical business element of converting online visitors into regular casino players is to get a boost at Slotland’s WinADay Internet gambling operation following an agreement with rich-media specialists EyeView.
Irish spread betting firm Worldspreads has sold its sports betting unit to its manager, Fergus Rice, after last month announcing its retreat from the sector, reports The Independent.ie newspaper in Ireland.
With the results of its two-year collaboration on addictive gambling with Harvard University due for publication in the near future, the Vienna-listed online gambling giant Bwin has released a statement on the project.
The U.S. state of Kentucky appears to be in financial trouble, judging by reports from local media, with extra funds having to be diverted to keep the Department of Public Advocacy running and reports that state prosecutors are having to take unpaid layoffs of up to three weeks, probably resulting in a growing backlog of …
Reports which first surfaced in the UK’s Sunday Telegraph newspaper this weekend indicate that most of the principal shareholders in Britain’s national lottery organiser Camelot are interested in selling their stakes in the company, which has operated the lottery since 1994 on a mandate from the British government. Camelot renewed its mandate for a further …
Hard pressed consumers in the United States have not given up completely on gambling, but they are turning increasingly to using penny slots for their entertainment.
Is Asia’s land gambling drought easing? A report from Bloombergs news service this week suggests that it may be. Macau’s casino revenue rose in the first three months of 2009, signaling recovery from a slowdown triggered by the global recession and visa controls imposed on mainland Chinese visitors.
According to reports in the UK newspaper, The Times two well established and substantial online gambling companies may currently be in discussions. Gibraltar-based Party Gaming plc and the Nasdaq listed GigaMedia group are named in the report, which notes that earlier this month Gigamedia flagged an interest in selling or merging.
The right hand did not appear to know what the left was doing this week at PRWeb-Vocus as news media struggled to get confirmation from the press release distribution company that it had been served a “cease and desist” order in respect of Internet gambling press material by the Washington State Gambling Commission.
Canadians in the province of Nova Scotia may be given the convenience of online sports betting later this year, judging by reports in the regional media.
Advocate organisations supporting freedom of speech and the Internet independence principles have made submissions to the Kentucky Supreme Court ahead of its hearing of an appeal against an appeal by the Kentucky state government.