The Australian media are reporting a scary incident at the home of Sportingbet’s Australian CEO, Michael Sullivan, in which a luxury BMW X5 belonging to the family and parked outside the house was destroyed by fire, endangering the home itself.
Purdue University researchers are going after more funding this week by auctioning off the naming rights to seven recently discovered types of bats hailing from Mexico, South America, Central America and Africa, along with two Amazonian turtles, reports the Chicago Tribune.
Online gambling software developer and provider Betsoft Gaming Ltd has claimed a “revolutionary” development in video slot technology with its new 3D slot offering, branded SLOTS3. The game features 3D, cinematic slot gaming with full-motion animations, immersive soundtrack and special effects.
China’s minister of the State Council Information Office, Wang Chen, claims that the Internet is being misused by many among the hundreds of millions of Chinese Internet users.
Readers who were involved in the online gaming industry in the mid to late ‘nineties will remember one of the pioneering online gambling information and directory portals branded WhereToBet, which appears to be undergoing another resurrection this week with the release of press material and some activity on Internet gambling affiliate message boards.
Europe’s major sporting bodies have taken the first steps to set up a global body to combat sports betting corruption, an article in The Telegraph newspaper reported this week.
Gibraltar-based online gambling group 888.com, has announced that its 888 Ladies.com website, which caters particularly for women online punters, has been awarded a Gamcare certificate for its responsible gambling practices.
The Jutarnji List daily newspaper reports that Croatians spend an estimated HRK 6.6 billion (about Euro 920 million) on gambling annually.
A Union of European Football Associations statement on the UEFA.com website confirms that the association has joined forces with other sports bodies to call for “stronger protection of the integrity of sport and a fair financial return from sports betting” to be incorporated in an influential European Parliament report on the integrity of online gambling …
US unemployment statistics climbed to a 15 year high in November, with the travel and entertainment sectors taking a major beating due to lay-offs, Associated Press reported this week.
The news agency Associated Press reported this week that the American Gaming Association – a trade group comprised of the major US land casino owners – spent $400 000 over the third quarter of 2008 to lobby for legislation that included work regarding regulated online gambling in the USA.
A group of investors with experience in land based gambling out of Margarita Island, Venezuela is gearing up to enter the online casino and bingo arena with Bingo Las Vegas Casino.com, powered by Sweden’s Net Entertainment and licensed through the Netherlands Antilles.
The New South Wales government in Australia has been urged to seriously consider a restrained form of licensed and regulated online gambling as a step forward in keeping up with gambling trends, reports the Sydney Morning Herald this week. The newspaper was reporting on suggestions made to the NSW leaders by Alan Cameron, a former …
Online blackjack players will be able to play up to 4 hands at a time on the latest game release from Internet gambling software provider Top Game – Multi Hand Blackjack. Among the first to install the new game is Rome Casino.com, which accepts US players.
Up to 14 professional baseball players in South Korea are being investigated by prosecutors on allegations of illegal online wagering involved “tens of millions” of the local currency, the won, reports the Korea Times.
The Rank Group’s interactive operation under the Blue Square.com brand has a new managing director. The online gambling company announced this week that Mark Jones (44) has accepted the position.
The popular publication Techdirt weighed in on the regulation of online gambling in the USA this week, calling the American Gaming Association’s support for a study of online gambling “about as wishy-washy as could be” in an editorial.
In a move that could make online access to gambling and other forbidden practices from cyber cafes more difficult, authorities in the southern Chinese city of Nanchang now require that Internet cafes install Chinese-developed operating systems, raising new concerns over cyber-snooping by authorities, reports Associated Press.
Cantor Gaming’s sudden closure of its Cantor Casino, Cantor Poker and Red Lounge online gambling websites, and the imprecise announcement that accompanied it, prompted us to request clarification from the firm on a number of points.
NYX Interactive-powered Mamamia Bingo.com is taking the next step and launching an Internet casino offering with its provider, the company announced this week. NYX has recently signed several casino deals and has already announced that it is investing heavily in product development to strengthen its position and widen its gambling software offering.
The Miami Herald reports that a bid by an ex-beauty queen to claim a half share of her husband’s Florida Lottery $600 000 syndicate win was turned away this week by Dade Circuit Court Judge Jennifer Bailey with the suggestion that a divorce court might be a better venue to resolve the dispute.
The Casino Affiliate Programs.com new video news and information program CAP TV, announced two weeks ago has achieved its first screening deadline and is now available for viewing over the internet at http://www.casinoaffiliateprograms.com/captv/.
Bodog-powered online casinos like Lucky18, which offer online gambling to the US market, are currently making marketing capital out of the progressive slots game Jackpot Piñata, which has breached the $1 million barrier to become one of the largest jackpots currently available to American players.
The large European social networking website Netlog, has partnered up with Swedish games supplier Jadestone to offer new multiplayer games to the Netlog online community.