The Sydney Morning Herald reports that online gambling group Betfair has suggested to the Australian Productivity Commission enquiring into gambling that strictly limited access to public records such as motor vehicle registries, births, deaths and marriages data and passport information could be an effective way for betting companies to verify ID on players.
In another public slanging match across several mainly affiliate-oriented message boards this week, an executive of the beleaguered Effective Media Group (EMG) claimed that a customer had not paid consulting fees due and had made off with the online casino, changing its name in the process!
Tex Rees, the Fair Gaming Advocate at the independent player protection and standards body eCOGRA, has released the organisation’s first quarter 2009 player disputes report.
Online bingo software developer Virtue Fusion Alderney, has been chosen by UK gambling group Talarius to provide bingo for its new Quick Silver Games.co.uk (formerly known as Cyberslotz) website.
The burgeoning Australian operations of online gambling group Betfair show no sign of slowing down, with a new horse racing sponsorship announced this week with the Strathalbyn Racing Club, which becomes the first regional South Australian race club to secure sponsorship with the betting group.
The European online e-cash processor Moneybookers has appointed Tero Pollanen as head of anti-fraud activities, one of a series of new hirings that has seen Moneybookers’ headcount double since the beginning of 2008.
Government claims that Australia would not fall into the world recession this year were proved wrong this week….all to the profit of economy-savvy gamblers who were not taken in by political opinions.
The Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi tribe in Michigan, USA has ambitious plans for a land casino operation managed by Gaming Entertainment Michigan, but until that becomes a reality the venture is depending on a free Internet casino to build awareness and brand identity.
A federal court in Boston has found a local businessman reputed to have organised crime connections guilty of sports betting and loan shark ring racketeering that includes unspecified online operations.
Reports in the French daily newspaper Le Monde suggest that several well known industry companies, including Betclick, Unibet, and Bwin are already active with French associates in gearing up for the liberalisation of the French online and land gambling market, expected by most observers to occur in 2010.
Increases in the already heavy taxes on drinking, smoking and gambling were included in the British government’s latest budget proposals, although these were largely overshadowed by the boost in general tax rates for those earning over GBP 150 000 p.a., who have been hit with a 50 percent tax rate as the Chanellor continues to …
Optus, the second largest Internet Service Provider in Australia, has given the federal government’s controversial plan to filter Internet content a boost by agreeing to take part in a six week trial of the scheme.
The Justice Ministry in Switzerland has been tasked with drafting a proposal with the objective of licensing and regulating a small number of Internet gambling operations, reports Swissinfo this week.
The Safe and Secure Internet Gambling Initiative (SSIGI), has been around long enough to make a sterling contribution to the debate on legalising online gambling in the United States, prompted by its goal of freedom for individuals to safely and legally gamble over the Internet.
The Canadian Internet gambling software developer and provider Chartwell Technology Inc., has announced that the major Vienna listed online gambling group Bwin International has renewed its software licence – the fourth time it has done so.
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.