A post on the Manchester-based digital agency Degree 53’s blog, written by managing director Andrew Daniels, informs the lifting of a ban on real-money gambling apps by the Google Play app store. Google Play has long held policies that restrict all gambling content or services that facilitate online gambling and has banned online casinos, sports …
Aristocrat chief financial officer and company secretary Toni Korsanos has chosen not to relocate from Sydney to Las Vegas with chief executive officer Trevor Crocker later this year due to personal responsibilities and will step down once a successor is found. The relocation of the chief financial officer’s role is scheduled for March 2018 and …
The Washington DC newspaper The Hill reports that political attacks on online gambling continue, with news of a July 5 letter written to Attorney General Jeff Sessions by Virginia Democrat Sen. Mark Warner. In the letter, Warner calls on Sessions to review the December 2011 opinon by the Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel that …
BetConstruct has partnered new Spanish online operator PASTÓN.es for the provision of a sportsbook platform. PASTÓN has integrated the BetConstruct Sportsbook onto its Gaming platform, providing customers with full access to pre-match and live betting coverage. The licensed Spanish online gaming operation is a project of a group of Valencia-based gambling entrepreneurs, Euroapuestas Online SAU …
LeoVegas has launched LeoVegasSport in the Danish market ahead of the opening of the new Danish Superligaen season later this week. The company simultaneously upgraded its online casino offer with an investment in Live Casino. Gustaf Hagman, group chief executive officer for LeoVegas, said. The launch of LeoVegas’ casino has been very successful and LeoVegas …
Zeus Play has teased its upcoming launch of ‘Infinium: The Exiled Gems’ in September 2017 with the release of a promotional trailer. The space travel-themed 5×3 slot will be the latest title in Zeus Play’s NXG Line. Check out the trailer here:
SoftSwiss is readying the launch of two new online video slots from previously land-based-focused slots developer and new exclusive partner, Belatra. Belatra will formally mark its first foray into the online gaming segment with the launch of two online games at the Affiliate conference in Amsterdam, ‘The Spanish Armada’ and ‘Super Sevens’. The Spanish Armada’, …
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is appealing the Australian Competitions Tribunal (ACT) approval of the Tabcorp-Tatts merger through the Federal Court system. The ACCC has filed for a judicial review of the ACT decision, in which TabCorp and Tatts Groups were granted authorisation to merge (see previous reports), believing the ACT made three …
Sydney’s Fairfield Council, which has authority over 3,836 pokie machines in 38 venues, has expressed alarm at the amount of bets going through the machines, which according to recent New South Wales research topped A$8.2 billion in 2015-2016. Actual punter losses on those stakes were around A$800 million, but anti-gambling groups have focused on the …
Online gambling company Marathonbet has become an official sponsor of Dynamo Moscow football club after signing a three-year agreement taking effect from the 2017/2018 season. The partnership will give Marathonbet wide-ranging opportunities for branding – the company logo will appear on the players’ jerseys and in the club’s home ground as well as its training …
According to reports from the Bloomberg business news service, the Chinese government has ramped up its restrictive moves to control of the internet, directing state-operated telecomm companies to institute blocks on VPN services by February 1 2018. The move follows a general crackdown on internet enforcement announced earlier this year by the government (see previous …
Telangana one of the 29 states in India, has banned online gambling and betting in a measure titled Telangana Gaming (Second Amendment) Ordinance, 2017 promulgated by state governor ESL Narasimhan. The move comes a week after state lawmakers advised the Hyderabad High Court of their intention to legislate a ban in response to public complaints …
Reports from Michigan are that S.203, an online gambling bill introduced to the Senate in March this year, has resurfaced with some changes after a period in which it appeared to languish after passing the Senate Regulatory Reform Committee (see previous reports). Early reports indicate that the bill in general remains as originally proposed, but …
Scientific Games Corporation has acquired Bristol, UK-based, real-money mobile and desktop casino games and sports app developer, Red7Mobile Ltd (Red7) for an undisclosed consideration. The acquisition provides Scientific Games with access to a large portfolio of mobile and interactive game titles, including slot games, instant win/scratch cards, and table games along with a range of …
Stockholm-based online casino platform and games developer, Nolimit city, has launched a new promotion tool that enables operators to set up a personalised campaign game. Nolimit city, in cooperation with ComeOn!, have released the first of numerous promo games on the promotional platform. The initial release is a simple, efficient promotional tool, a 50/50 interactive …
William Hill has launched a new betting category in partnership with Lottoland, the William Hill Planet Lottery. William Hill customers can now bet on the outcome of leading Global lottery draws via mobile, computer or tablet, through an integrated platform from Lottoland, who guarantees all lottery outcome betting wins. Head of Corporate Development for William …
Newgioco Group, Inc. a US betting software technology company providing regulated leisure lottery and gaming products and services through licensed subsidiaries based in Europe, has announced the appointment of a software engineering and product development team comprising Alessandro Alpi, Michael Denny and Federico Reisenauer. The project team is led by chief technology officer for Newgioco, …
An agreement signed between sportsbook provider SBTech and WinMasters late last year for the operator’s Romanian offer has expanded with the launch of Winmasters.cy, powered by SBTech, in the Cypriot market. Winmasters, who enjoy a prominent presence in the Romanian market, was awarded a Class B license by the Cyprus National Betting Authority along with …
Online payment specialist, Easy Payment Gateway (EPG), has bolstered its war chest after completing a GBP 5.5 million funding round. The injection of capital has come from two angel investors and entrepreneurs, Andreas Mihalovits and Alejandro Betancourt. Mihalovits is already an investor in Easy Payment Gateway, and has significantly increased his shareholding with this latest …
Online gambling games developer Pragmatic Play has announced the launch of its latest mobile and desktop slot, a 4×6 reel slot, with 4,096 ways to win titled Jurassic Giants. As the title suggests, the theme is based on a bloody battle between the terrifying T-Rex and the mighty Mammoth. Gameplay includes lava-spewing volcano wilds, diamond …
In a case that will undoubtedly catch the eye of the UK Gambling Commission, given the regulator’s recent warnings that it will strengthen consumer protection including the application of terms and conditions, a nineteen-year-old Belfast student has filed litigation against online betting group bet365 in the Belfast High Court, alleging breach of contract. Reporting on …
Local Pennsylvanian media outlets reported over the weekend that state legislators are hard at work in a bid to meet a Monday deadline on the submission of concrete funding proposals for the state’s $32 billion budget agreed last week (see previous report). Most of the debate is around an expansion of state gambling (including online …
In what appears to be a further tightening of its controls, the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation advised its Philippine Offshore Gaming licence holders this week that they would be inspected by officials from its recently formed Pagcor Monitoring Team to ensure compliance. The regulator’s Online and Poker Monitoring Unit (OPMU) confirmed that monitoring officials …
Michelle Minton of the Competitive Enterprise Institute warned in a tweet over the weekend that Pennsylvania Republican Representative Charlie Dent is planning a new initiative to have Congress ban all US online gambling, with a move to attach an amendment to a large spending bill as early as next week. “Alert: Rep. Dent will offer …