The value of Internet gambling operations to Irish bookie group Paddy Power was powerfully illustrated this week in the company’s full year report for 2008 – the Internet division of the firm contributed 70 percent of operating profit over the last six months of the year.
British online gambling software provider Orbis launched its Game Package 16 this week, with new additions to the OpenBet Mini Games portfolio and new Sci-Fi themed slot games.
The UK supplier of online bingo and networked gaming solutions, Virtue Fusion, has announced that Rank plc, the UK’s largest publicly listed bingo operator has signed a third long term licensing agreement for Virtue’s networked bingo and games solution.
The interactive television gambling company NetplayTV plc has taken on the former m.d. of London advertising company FCB, Jonathan Rigby, as its new brand director.
The Irish government is to begin regulating and licensing casino clubs in a first step towards a liberalisation of gambling laws in the country, reports the Irish Times.
The European Commission’s decision to push forward in its investigation into breaches of the EU Treaty by the Dutch and Greek governments has been applauded by the Remote Gaming Association, a trade body for major online gambling companies in Europe.
Casino Rewards, the Australia-based Microgaming online casino operator that owns 18 (maybe 19 soon) Internet casinos has announced that it is to diversify its offering by getting into the online lottery sector.
Bingo.com Limited, operator of popular online gaming site Bingo.com, has raised over half a million dollars to use for future operations by placing 3.5 million shares at 15cents each.
Media Week reports that the Internet betting site Ladbrokes.com has signed a six-figure deal to sponsor horse racing television channel Racing UK.
A Bedfordshire online punter, Jim Riley, is GBP 95 771 richer this week after busting the jackpot on Will Hill’s Pharoah’s Treasure progressive slot at Vegas.William Hill.com
The press conference following the release of William Hill plc’s latest financial results revealed some interesting relocation possibilities for the UK gambling group.
The Cambodian gambling industry has been thrown into uncertainty by the arbitrary cancellation last week of gambling licenses as the minister of Finance, Keat Chhon, complies with an overall requirement from the country’s prime minister Hun Sen to curtail the pastime for social and moral reasons.
The 2010 edition of the ongoing British Gambling Prevalence Survey will be carried out by the National Centre for Social Research, the UK Gambling Commission announced this week.
UK gambling group William Hill plc has confirmed it intends to raise GBP 350 million through a rights issue and has scrapped its final dividend.
The relatively new kid on the Internet gambling software provider block, Top Gaming, has launched its latest online casino for an unidentified licensee under the brand Gold Vegas Casino.com.
The Washington-based Competitive Enterprise Institute has released a position paper arguing that online gambling is legal in the US despite public misconceptions, and that the Internet gaming industry has been unjustifiably black-balled by US politicians who use fear as a means for furthering anti-online gambling moves.
Requestabet.com has become the latest online gambling advertiser to fall victim to the UK Advertising Standards Authority’s stringent requirements, and has been ordered to withdraw an advertisement comparing online gambling to investments such as the stock market and banking.
One of Australia’s most vociferous opponents of online gambling, Senator Nick Xenophon has withdrawn his support from Aussie government moves to censor the Internet and says he will oppose any legislation that seeks to do so.
The Gigamedia subsidiary Everest Gaming, which owns Everest Poker and the Everest online casino, has been successful in obtaining an online gambling licence from the Malta jurisdiction, a white-listed authority in terms of UK advertising.
Internet gambling on Fantasy Sports, one of the notorious carve-outs in national US anti-online gambling legislation, is under the microscope in Maryland, where Delegate John Olszewski Jr., D-Baltimore County, presented a bill this week to a House committee to exempt fantasy sports from state gambling prohibitions.
Richard Wiseman, Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer of Royal Dutch Shell has confirmed that IT staff have commenced blocking undesirable websites accessed by employees whilst at work.
One of Britain’s larger online and land gambling groups, Rank plc, has published its results for the full year to 31 December 2008, showing a bottom line loss of GBP 4.9 million (2007 FY: profit of GBP 311.75)
Since its unveiling at the last ICE(i) expo in London last month, Wagerworks’ new online gambing offering, Battleship: Search and Destroy, has been eagerly anticipated on player message boards. The waiting ended this week as the game was released to Wagerworks licensees.
A St. Albans online bingo fan hit a major jackpot this week whilst taking a few relaxing moments out of his working day to play a little Internet bingo at Ladbrokes.