The possible ban of a Littlewoods Bingo television advertisement by the UK Advertising Standards Authority has been averted by the company’s spirited defence of its position last week.
At least two of the five land betting companies licensed to offer Internet gambling by the Czech government, Fortuna and Sazka, are now online and operating according to media reports from the region.
32Red management had good cause for celebration this week; the company delivered a set of annual results that showed solid growth, and both management and casino received top awards from a major Internet gambling information portal.
Swedish online gambling software provider NYX Interactive plans to launch a new and innovative bingo product at the forth-coming International Gaming Exhibition, taking place next week at London’s Earls Court Exhibition Centre.
The always innovative software development team at Online-casinos.com, led by webmaster Jan Balslev, has come up with a fun ….and free, new facility for visitors – MakeSlots.
Surprise announcement from Internet gambling group Party Gaming plc as the week commenced was the imminent departure of managing director John O’Malia “….to pursue other business interests.”
China’s biggest online gambling prosecution opened in the Putuo District People’s Court last week with all 20 defendants in the Internet football betting case admitting guilt, reports the Shanghai Daily News.
A New York Times report on confirmation hearings for a member of the new US presidential team foreshadows continued Department of Justice hassles for online gambling in the United States.
The UK publication Crane’s Manchester Business reports that brothers Fred and Peter Done are through with online gambling, having sold their online gambling operation, BetFred, to an undisclosed buyer, netting some GBP 27.2 million from the sale.
A probably apocryphal email circulating on the Internet at present claims that a senior US politician with gambling connections has a colourful ancestral history which his spin doctors have reworked into an amusing 21st century biographical rendition.
The news from Nevada continues to paint a bleak picture as the economic recession impacts visitor and hotel occupation rates in the gambling state.
Catching the attention of football fans and fuelling speculation on a high roller’s identity Friday was a report in the UK newspaper The Daily Star that a famous UK football player had blown GBP 1 million in a matter of hours at an unamed land casino.
President Elect Barack Obama’s “suggestions” website at http://citizensbriefingbook.change.gov/home, and especially the threads proposing the abolition of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, continues to attract the attention of the online gambling community .
Matchroom Sport’s live sports events offering is to be made more widely available following a deal with digital sports television and internet specialist Perform.
The death sentence imposed on corrupt Chinese government official Li Shubiao in 2005 has been confirmed by the Chenzhou Intermediate People’s Court following a retrial for graft and misappropriation of public funds, reports the Xinhua news agency this week.
The German horseracing betting channel e8 television has launched on Astra after running extensive test transmissions since mid-2008.
The Interactive Media Entertainment & Gaming Association (iMEGA) has announced that its legal team has been asked by the US 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals to provide notice of their availability in April 2009 for oral arguments in their challenge to a Federal law targeting the Internet gambling industry.
Further to our earlier report today on Stanleybet’s confrontation with the Greek government and its OPAP monopoly, Reuters reports that an Athens court has ruled that Stanleybet can reopen its outlet in the Greek capital city.
Global Betting and Gaming Consultants and BetMarkets have combined to offer a free copy of the 13 page ‘The State of Play’ report on current sports betting developments.
The latest online gambling partnership deal is a games supply agreement inked between software developer and provider Cryptologic and Gaming Technology Solutions plc – a supplier of platform solutions for online gaming operations.
Cynics might say that Cryptologic’s latest public update on its growth strategy was to some extent spurred by the recent challenge from ex-CEO Javid Aziz that management’s strategy needed some revision.
Reports that have yet to be confirmed by either party involved have speculated this week that the online casino and poker operations of Doylesroom.com are about to ditch software provider Microgaming in favour of the Cake Poker Network.
In a reprise of a similar incident last year, when European gamblers using laptops and mobiles were ejected from a major tennis match, an alleged mobile better was removed from a Brisbane International tennis tournament match last week.
The ILBS.com legal information website confirmed this week that the Seychelles is a licensing jurisdiction for online gambling operators in terms of its Interactive Gambling Act.