The Australian gambling group Tabcorp’s latest financial results reveal a massive negative hit to the company’s bottom line – the result of a dud cheque for A$11.5 million from a high-rolling gambler at one of the company’s casinos.
Canadian online gambling software provider Chartwell Technology has inked key movie brand licensing agreements with Paramount Digital Entertainment International.
January 30th is L-day for the giant European online betting group Bwin – it marks the start of the group’s innovative and technologically advanced live betting interface which has been designed to give customers an intensified live experience.
The Dutch Justice Minister, Hirsch Ballin was in the news again this week with more threats designed to warn off online gambling companies that may be a threat to the state’s monopolistic stranglehold on betting in Holland.
The UK-based online betting exchange Betfair Group Ltd. has completed its acquisition of the US-based TV Games Network from Macrovision for $50 million in cash.
UK online banking service Ivobank has announced that its services are now available to customers who play at any of the Webline, Iconic, Eurolinx and Golden Lounge casino brands, on the Microgaming platform.
Despite the almost universally gloomy media reports on the global economy, the general attitude of exhibitors in the interactive section at Clarion’s International Casino Exhibition in London this week was upbeat, confident and full of energy.
Slotland.com 3D online casino subsidiary WinADay.com has announced the launch of its latest new game, Slot-O-Matic.
Online gambling software provider Microgaming’s unique player-customisable video slot Myslot, launched early December 2008, is proving a big favourite with the players according to an independent study.
Isle of Man-based online gambling software provider Microgaming used the ICE(i) exhibition this week to announce that the top European bookmaker Interwetten has gone live with its online casino games and system.
Online gambling marketing affiliates were surprised this week to receive notifications from the Rival Internet gambling company, believed to be owned by Canadian residents, that it intends to exit the Canadian market within the next few days – effective February 1st 2009.
Football pools operator Sportech has announced in a trading update that it expects full-year results to be in line with management expectations, following a robust period of trading during the second half of 2008. The firm’s 2008 annual results are due for release in March 2009.
Parlay Entertainment is making all of its popular side games available in the embedded mini-game format, which allows players to play mini-games within their bingo game window, the company announced this week.
The Spanish Ministry of the Interior, Comisión Nacional del Juego is to provide an update on the future of online gambling in the region at a conference titled Online Gambling in Spain – A Regulatory Update.
Saviour Balzan, the outspoken editor of the Malta Today newspaper, survived a long-running legal debate with the local law this week, getting a minimal Euro 7 000 slap on the wrist for publishing a land casino advertorial back in 2005.
If there was one name which stood out in opposition to the introduction of land casinos in Massachusetts last year it was that of the Speaker in the state House of Representatives, Sal DiMasi.
Mahjong Time, which provides online mahjong gaming software and is an official partner of the World Series of Mahjong (WSOM), has signed Chinese online sports news company Sportscn as a licensee of its mahjong game software.
Microgaming associate BetStone Ltd, a server-based gaming provider, has launched its new website at Betstone.com, offering a range of new features and product benefits.
Online casino and poker room Bet24.com has announced that it has become the latest site to obtain a European Union-friendly licence after being accredited by the British overseas territory of Gibraltar.
The UK gambling group Ladbrokes plc has plans for Australian operations, reports a British newspaper.
The controversial attempt by the state of Kentucky to seize and ultimately confiscate or use 141 international domain names as leverage for “settlements” with online gambling firms failed in the Kentucky Court of Appeals recently but is still very much a live issue.
Swedish online gaming provider Jadestone Networks, which owns and operates multiplayer gaming networks GamArena and DiceArena, has announced that the Nordic Gaming Group owned site Nordicbet.com has joined the growing DiceArena Network and is now live.
The former British Prime Minister Harold Wilson once observed that a week was a long time in politics, and when his view is applied to the online gambling affiliate sector it could well read that 24 hours is a long time in affiliate matters!
The respected online gambling information portal Major Wager.com published a must-read interview with Antigua’s legal adviser this week, updating and covering the many interesting aspects of the Antigua vs. the United States disputes in the halls of the World Trade Organisation.