Online gamblers have another million dollar jackpot on offer following this week’s Real Time Gaming announcement that its Jackpot Pinatas progressive jackpot has moved over the million dollar level.
Reports from Redding, northern California tell of a local burglar who was not the sharpest knife in the drawer, having tried to gamble at two casinos using rare coins he had stolen in a burglary.
Two Vietnamese nationals, Nguyen Van Dinh and Nguyen Trieu Duc, both from Hanoi, have been arrested by officers of the Ministry of Public Security’s Criminal Police Department on allegations of organising gambling cruises between Vietnam and Cambodia.
Gibraltar-based online gambling group 888.com’s monthly member’s magazine “Eight” has been awarded “Most Effective Membership” publication at the 2008 APA Effectiveness Awards.
Gibraltar-based online gambling group 888.com’s monthly member’s magazine “Eight” has been awarded “Most Effective Membership” publication at the 2008 APA Effectiveness Awards.
Another significant step in the corporate development of online gambling software provider Net Entertainment has occurred with the Stockholm Stock Exchange listing committee approving the company for listing on the NASDAQ OMX Stockholm.
Mainly German reports over the weekend raise the alarming prospect that the Internet is under further assault – this time from German authorities.
The world’s largest Internet population – the Chinese – were deprived of access to the New York Times last Friday, according to the newspaper.
The long-running European Commission’s challenge to the benevolent corporate tax regime in Gibraltar has been resolved by a European Union court in favour of the tiny Mediterranean nation.
The respected Fitch Ratings agency in the United States has predicted that the gambling industry can expect a tough economic environment through to 2010, reports Business Wire.
The owners of the world famous land gambling brands Casino de Monte Carlo and Casino de Monaco, La Société des Bains de Mer et du cercle des étrangers à Monaco, has won a branding case against Australian online casino company Around Pacific, resulting in an order that the domain name Casino-Monaco-Gold.com be transferred to the …
In May this year Texas authorities raided a Corpus Christi amusement centre, starting a chain of events that ended with the arrest on illegal gambling charges of 14 executives employed by the Dallas-based Aces Wired Inc and the confiscation of 90 ‘gambling machines’ known as 8-liners, and some $175 000 in cash.
The ICEi exhibition scheduled for January 27 -29th in London received a bright endorsement from player protection and standards body eCOGRA this week, when Tex Rees, the Fair Gaming Advocate at that organisation saluted the companies committed to attending as among the “…most mature, accountable and responsible gathering of e-gaming exhibitors in the industry’s brief …
In May this year, online gambling group Betfair’s top IT man, Rory Devine, handed in his notice, triggering an extensive search for a replacement which ended this week with the announcement that former Vodafone manager Tony McAlister is to replace him.
American horse racing fans were disappointed this week to find the following discontinuation of service notice on the Pinnacle Sports.com website:
Jadestone’s social gaming network DiceArena added another major company to its member list this week with the launch of Eurobet on the system.
This week’s $300 million “settlement” and Wire Act guilty plea by the co-founder of Party Gaming, Anurag Dikshit has resulted in a blizzard of high-visibility coverage for the industry in the world’s mainstream media, and much of it has been positive – highlighting the confusing and often discriminatory nature of US laws on Internet gambling …
US-based gambling software provider GameLogic has received a cash boost through a $3 million loan from speciality financing company Velocity.
US-based gambling software provider GameLogic has received a cash boost through a $3 million loan from speciality financing company Velocity.
Despite the continued vigorous attempts by conservative US politicians and the Department of Justice to curtail Internet gambling, online gamblers continue to pursue their pastime of choice, with the latest MediaMetrix comScore statistics showing an 11 percent increase in US visits to online gambling sites during November 2008.
The Swedish recommendations released earlier this week suggested some modification to the monopolistic structure which restricts gambling to the state owned Svenska Spel, but confined this to licensing sports betting products to private operators by 2011.
Online gambling software developer Microgaming has just released its December game releases, featuring three new slots to occupy players over the holiday season.
Canadian lottery scandals which included allegations of fraudulent behaviour by ticket sellers were in the media again this week as CBC reported that an investigation has found that Atlantic Lottery Corporation employees, lottery retailers and their families are not winning more than they should, although they are more likely to win big prizes than the …
Canadian lottery scandals which included allegations of fraudulent behaviour by ticket sellers were in the media again this week as CBC reported that an investigation has found that Atlantic Lottery Corporation employees, lottery retailers and their families are not winning more than they should, although they are more likely to win big prizes than the …