The idea of keeping businessmen charged with online gambling related offences in custody for over two years without trial beggars the imagination, yet that is what has happened to two former executives of the now moribund but once thriving online gambling group BetonSports.com
US President Barack Obama’s nomination for US Trade Representative, former Dallas mayor Ron Kirk, has made an encouraging first impression, telling Senate confirmation hearings considering his appointment that he will push for strict enforcement of global trade rules.
The chief executive officer of the UK-based Remote Gambling Association, Clive Hawkswood, was in bullish mood during an interview this week with the Reuters news agency, predicting that European gambling groups should return an average growth of ten percent in 2009.
The latest survey of the German Internet scene by the independent digital measurement company comScore, Inc., ranks the largest and fastest-growing Internet properties in the country during the past year, and reports that the total German Internet audience in January 2009 grew 11 percent compared to January 2008, reaching a total of some 37.6 million …
The popular UK online gambling casino public company 32Red plc has reported a good set of results in a trading update for the year ended 31 December 2008, with significant growth during the year featuring total gaming revenues of GBP13.0 million, an increase of 27 percent on 2008.
Italian gambling group Lottomatica SpA increased sports bets significantly in February compared with January 2009, experiencing a 17 percent increase in bets that took totals for the month to Euro 58 million, and giving the firm a 15.2 percent market share, Agipro News agency reports.
The trend toward hip young players gravitating to bingo in Europe is also being experienced in the United States, aided by a cool ambience, amusingly sexy calls, exotic booze and in-your-face advertising on the theme “Not Your Grandma’s Bingo,” reports the Miami Herald this week.
Online gambling group Party Gaming plc has signed an exclusive white label agreement with the London-listed direct marketing company DM plc to provide online bingo and casino facilities. DM specialises in customer recruitment and database management in the UK.
Alabama state Senator Hank Erwin Jnr. is not only intent on putting a stop to gambling in the southern state – he wants to remove the state legislature’s right to authorise any gambling activity, too.
Alabama state Senator Hank Erwin Jnr. is not only intent on putting a stop to gambling in the southern state – he wants to remove the state legislature’s right to authorise any gambling activity, too.
Quarter 4, 2008 expenditure on political lobbying by the American Gaming Association totalled $368 000 and was again mainly devoted to matters involving online gambling, Associated Press reports.
Amply illustrating the resilence and popularity of online gambling despite the tough economic conditions throughout the world, a new report from Global Betting and Gaming Consultants reveals that the US$ 20 billion benchmark for gross gambling yield on the Internet was passed in 2008.
The always conplicated legal situation surrounding gambling in North Carolina continues to have enforcement officials and operators alike scratching their heads on the subject of Internet-based video machines.
The Fortune Lounge online casino group reports that player KarolaH hit a Euro 851 348.19 Major Millions progressive slot jackpot on March 4th at group subsidiary Royal Vegas Casino.com.
Writing in the publication New Jersey.com this week, former New Jersey assistant attorney general Frank Catania argued for the legalisation of online gambling to help Atlantic City to compete in a tougher market.
Liberalising gambling laws could help China survive the global economic downturn, sports officials told the annual meeting of China’s parliament this week, according to a report from the Reuters news agency.
Illinois is about to become the latest US state to exploit the legislative carve-outs that allow online betting on horse racing, fantasy sports and state lotteries while the federal government is doing everything it can to curtail competing Internet gambling in every other sector.
Mangas Gaming SAS, a French gambling group with interests in online gaming and sports betting, announced two major industry transactions as the week came to a close.
A Canadian online gambler hit the jackpot and the media headlines this week at Captain Cooks Casino.com, a member of the Casino Rewards group, when he cashed for an impressive $112 852 on the Tunzamunni progressive slot.
Recessionary climates can produce extraordinary events, and the UK media are currently carrying an interesting report of a 13-member lottery syndicate that struck it lucky….and decided to use their winnings to ensure their employer’s survival, along with their jobs.
According to Reuters reports as the week ended, the next substantial attack on the controversial Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act 2006 could commence as early as mid-March 2009.
Prominent European politicians and gambling operators joined the debate on the liberalisation of EU gambling markets this week as the European Parliament prepared to vote on a largely negative own-initiative report on the ‘integrity’ of online gambling submitted last year by Danish MEP Christel Schaldemose.
Further details are emerging from Thursday’s press conference in Paris on the opening up of the French gambling market.
The Australian media are all carrying the sad story of lawyer-turned-surfwear-and-IT-entrepreneur Matthew Perrin, who racked up A$1.7 million in gambling debts last year before his financial world collapsed around him.