In a shock reprise of a Scandinavian move to tax online gamblers some time back, the Dutch taxman has reportedly been approaching poker players resident in Holland who thought they enjoyed Internet anonymity, inviting them to complete tax returns, and providing them with details of Dutch tax law.
Online gambling software provider Playtech’s live dealer online product has been so successful with Asian gamblers that it intends to target European punters with the product soon.
With the controversy over affiliate commercial relationships and no-slow payments to affiliates still swirling around both affiliate management consultants Affiliate Media Inc. and Effective Media Group, the online poker room at the centre of the controversy, CardSpike.com, issued a statement this week:
The German woman who resorted to Internet lottery tactics when she had difficulty getting a fair price for her home in Austria has announced the successful conclusion of her project and the winner.
More detail has emerged on the ruling handed down late Tuesday by the Kentucky Court of Appeals which overturned a decision by a lower court to seize and possibly confiscate 141 online gambling domains belonging to owners throughout the world .
The business section of the Isle of Man Today newspaper reported this week that Internet gambling is the fastest growing sector of the Manx economy, bucking the economic slowdown trend with the prospect of new businesses and new jobs being created on the island over the next few years.
Dale Johnson, the chairman of the board of directors at Neovia Financial plc (formerly Neteller) has welcomed two new non-executive directors to the board in the persons of experienced businessmen John Bateson (45) and Jonathan Comerford (36).
The UK-based Club World Group has announced the launch of its newest property, Aladdins Gold Casino.
The Malta and London-based sportsbook, casino and poker room website Bet Click.com scored a coup this week by signing up the top Italian football club Juventus as its online betting partner.
Three Kentucky Court of Appeals judges added to the US presidential inauguration celebrations Tuesday by returning a positive verdict for the freedom of the Internet in an appeal against the seizure of international domain names by a local county court judge . In a late afternoon announcement, the judges ruled that the commonwealth of Kentucky …
Kentucky racecourse owner Churchill Downs is to fully exploit its privileged position vis-a-vis online gambling with expansion projects led by racetrack president Steven P. Sexton.
The oratory skills of incoming U.S. president Barak Obama (and his top speechwriter Jon Favreau) are at the centre of some betting action offered by Irish online bookie Paddy Power this week as the presidential inauguration ceremony takes place.
Since its launch last summer, players at the relatively new 3D online casino WinADay.com have been building up a progressive jackpot through their slots action, and this week saw the first big winner at the online gambling venue.
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.