The Isle of Man-based sports betting firm Sports Betting One on One, has launched a novel introductory offer for new traders, reports Intergame. New accounts will be offered 30 company shares through a scheme where the company has created a Share Trading Floor so players can trade their shares on the Sports Betting One on …
Specialist online writers in several media this week started to paint a somewhat rosier picture of the online gambling sector, with the senior Moneyweek journo Eoin Gleeson setting the tone.
The UK online and land sportsbetting firm Pagebet has placed its internet betting business into administration, reports The Northern Echo regional newspaper.
With more online gambling companies coming forward with news of a Washington state cease and desist order on industry press releases distributed by state-based PRWeb, it is becoming clear that earlier reports on the ban were accurate.
The British ID verification company 192Business is to provide its global ID verification services to online gambling group 888.com properties to beef up ID checks in player acquisition initiatives.
The “finders keepers, losers weepers” story of a Swindon housewife who cashed in a winning lotto ticket she found on the floor of a supermarket made many UK newspapers this week.
Unconfirmed reports earlier this week that Ferndale, WA-located PRWeb – a press release distribution site – had been ordered by the state of Washington to stop promoting online gambling through its press release service have proved difficult to substantiate.
In a statement Thursday the Interactive Media & Gaming Association (iMEGA) advised that the US 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals has notified its lawyers and those representing the US Department of Justice that the Court is set to consider iMEGA’s challenge to the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 (UIGEA).
The Vienna-listed online gambling group Bwin experienced rising gross gaming revenues across its range of betting products during the financial year 2008, with ggr growing to Euro 420.9 million (FY 2007: Euro 353.5 million).
Kudos to UK online and land gambling group Stanleybet International, which has pledged a million Euros in earthquake relief assistance to victims of the calamitous Italian earthquakes earlier this month.
The fruits of major agreements with the owners of the rights to movie themes are becoming increasingly apparent at PartyCasino.com in the PartyGaming Internet gambling group, which has just launched its new Rambo-themed slot as a companion for games based on the movies Top Gun and Saturday Night Fever.
Daniel O’Mahoney, the CEO of Ireland’s largest land and Internet independent bookie firm, Boylesports, is on the move to parts unknown after five-and-a-half years in the hotseat, the company announced in a terse press release this week.
The Gibraltar-based 888.com-Cassava Enterprises online gambling group this week faces similar Argentinian legal problems to those already experienced by international firms Bwin and Victor Chandler in the South American country.
In the wake of the acquisition of Casagaming’s Internet gambling operations by iGame Limited announced earlier this week by Entraction it appears that at least two Casagaming execs will not be joining the acquiring company.
The director of the Harvard Medical School’s Addictions Department, Dr. Howard Shaffer, has some interesting views on Internet gambling, backed by an extensive study of problem gambling that includes access to a wealth of practical data from the giant European online gambling group Bwin.
OPAP, which operates the Greek government gambling monopoly, and Turkcell, Turkey’s largest mobile phone operator have lodged seperate bids for the soon-to-privatised national lottery Milli Piyango.
Nevada lawmakers in the Assembly voted 31 – 11 this week in favour of a proposal to introduce a state lottery in the gambling state, despite fears that such a move could compete with slot machines and other games of chance.
The troubled economic times which the US is currently battling through were again showcased in a USA Today article last week, which reported that between October 2008 and mid-March 2009 some 402 conventions and meetings scheduled for Las Vegas had been cancelled.
PhilWeb Corporation, the listed Philippines’ Internet company, has reported earnings in 2008 FY up by over a third on the back of higher revenues, reports GMA News.
The UK skill games developer and provider GameAccount has announced a white label deal designed to supply US-based firm Players Gaming & Leisure with online skill games at the newly launched Grand Casino World.com and Domino World.com.
The state of Kentucky’s appeal against an appeal entered a new phase at the beginning of April, when the state’s 50 page brief was accepted by the Kentucky Supreme Court.
Small wonder there are US states alarmed by the popularity of Internet gambling; the results of a survey released last week by Frost & Sullivan indicate that lottery sales have the potential to increase by 127 percent, plugging holes in state budgets….but that online gambling could be drawing away up to $7 billion due to …
Industry observers are speculating that the beginning of a new era in U.S. online gambling may be in sight following the appointment of ex-Party Gaming group CEO Mitch Garber as head of the Internet operations and World Series of Poker division at the giant land casino company Harrah’s Entertainment this week.
Clubs Australia has recommended in its submission to the Productivity Commission that more attention should be focused on the “ills of Internet gambling” now that problem gambling on the pokies has decreased, reports the Canberra Times.