Global Betting and Gaming Consultant’s Warren Bartlett has developed a reputation for accuracy in his annual predictions for the online gambling industry, and this year he has published his crystal ball findings on a wide range of likely developments which include: 1. The UK point-of-consumption tax was forecast to raise £280 million in its first …
Betfair CEO Breon Corcoran’s remarkable success in turning the Betfair online gambling group around and negotiating its merge with Paddy Power has been acknowledged by the UK Sunday Times, which has named him “Business Person of the Year 2015”. In an interview with Corcoran, Times writer Peter Evans notes his success in halting the decline …
According to the Boston Herald, the Massachusetts State Lottery is hoping to add fantasy sports and other online games in a drive to remain competitive with land and online casinos. Lottery executive director Michael Sweeney told the newspaper Wednesday: “I have a business that is not allowed to be online and can only accept cash. …
The usually well-informed and reliable Online Poker Report writer Chris Grove has tweeted that the California Assembly’s Government Organisation Committee has scheduled a meeting on the legalisation of online poker, sports betting and daily fantasy sports for January 6 2016, getting the year’s gambling initiatives off to a fast start in California. The tweet links …
Gaming regulators in Nevada and Pennsylvania, where multi-billionaire casino tycoon Sheldon Adelson has gambling interests, will be monitoring his family’s $140 million acquisition of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the publication reported this week. Nevada Gaming Control Board chairman A.G. Burnett told Journal reporter Howard Stutz that Nevada gaming regulations and the state’s public policy covering …
Latest figures for November 2015 released by the Nevada Gaming Control Board Wednesday show that casino win was up 7.8 percent year-on-year. Nevada casinos kept $944.3 million of gamblers’ wagers in November thanks to slot machines, the calendar and a record month for sports betting, the regulator advised. NGCB analyst Mike Lawton told Associated Press …
It’s been the busiest year for gaming-industry consolidation since 2005, and the wave of mergers and acquisitions isn’t over yet, Bloomberg business news reported Wednesday. In an assessment of the coming year, the publication notes that governments are pushing taxes and regulatory costs upward at a time when companies are competing for new customers, and …
According to a report Wednesday in the Toronto Star, the Canadian government’s IT division Shared Services Canada is shopping around for a new “unified threat management” program to combat civil servants accessing inappropriate websites – including online gambling operations – during working hours. The specifications for the new platform include “…everything from pinpointing individual Internet …
Malaysian police detained 20 men and seized 127 computers during an operation on seven gambling premises in the capital Kuala Lumpur and Selangor regions Tuesday, a police spokesman has confirmed. The operation was part of the massive and ongoing Operation Dadu, and seven different locales were raided between late afternoon and late at night. Police …
28-year-old Northern Irish woman Stephanie Harkin has won GBP 100,000 on a scratch card bought whilst shopping for presents for a school festive season celebration. The Northern Irish woman told reporters this week that her she struck it rich just before Christmas. Describing the circumstances that brought her such good fortune, Stephanie told local reporters …
It may be awhile before Ohio follows states like New York and Illinois in deciding whether daily fantasy sports are illegal or not…state lawmakers revealed in their annual report this week that they have not yet completed a detailed consideration of the issue but plan to mull it further in the new year. The State …
In an announcement by its chairman, Bobby Walkup, the Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma has advised its intention – subject to legality – to enter the online gambling sector in collaboration with Florida-based technology firm Universal Entertainment Group. Our readers may recall that Universal Entertainment Group was also involved in the abortive Pokertribes.com initiative launched unsuccessfully …
Another would-be US president with anti-online gambling positions has dropped out of the race for the Republican nomination in next year’s presidential election. The Reuters news agency reports that former New York governor George Pataki (70) on Tuesday ended his long-shot bid for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination saying: “While tonight is the end of …
Christmas business was seriously dislocated for sports betting operator Favbet following a Distributed Denial of Service attack that took down the website for the best part of a week over the festive season. The assault allegedly started whilst Favbet was skeleton-staffed due to a company event, and was savagely ruthless and efficient, quickly destroying both …
Daily fantasy sports companies DraftKings and FanDuel, which have filed litigation against an opinion by the Massachusetts Attorney General that DFS is illegal gambling (see previous report), have reportedly agreed a fast-tracked court schedule with that office. A report in the publication Canadian Business reveals that the deal took place early this week and was …
Online gambling software and platform developer Enterra Inc., has announced that it has re-branded as EvenBet Gaming. Previously, the company’s products were titled Enterra Poker and Enterra Casino. The company’s products include turnkey online poker and casino platforms; poker networked solutions; betting services software and custom online gambling development services and whilst the products remain …
Two Malaysian men are likely to face stronger punitive measures after being arrested twice in four days for operating illegal online gambling services in the Kota Tinggi region. Their misfortune’s began when a police raiding party, following up on a tip-off, raided a suspected online gambling outlet, seized equipment and other evidence and arrested the …
888casino has pledged a Christmas donation of $50,000 to the charity International Medical Corps UK, which provides health services in areas of the world affected by conflict, natural disaster or disease. The online casino operator has helped to support the charity’s work since 2013 and is a founding member of the Frontline Network. IMCUK has …
Irish web techie Peter Hamilton (34) has launched a new internet service which he claims takes the drudgery and danger out of voluntary exclusion from gambling websites. Hamilton says that problem gamblers face a daunting task in contacting possibly hundreds of online gambling sites in order to self-exclude, and additionally risk the dangers of further …
The repercussions from Sheldon Adelson’s allegedly stealth purchase of the Las Vegas Review-Journal spilled over into Connecticut Thursday with the resignation on ethical grounds of Steve Collins (54), a respected and professional journalist working for the Bristol Press, a publication owned by one Michael Schroeder. Schroeder is allegedly fronting for Adelson as the manager for …
Daily fantasy sports market leaders FanDuel and DraftKings have reacted quickly to Wednesday’s opinion by Illinois AG Lisa Madigan that their activities constitute gambling and are therefore illegal in the state. On Thursday the two companies filed separate cases fighting the opinion and insisting that their contests are games of skill allowed by Illinois law. …
Riot Games, developer of the League of Legends multiplayer game that has taken the eSports world by storm, is now a wholly owned subsidiary of billion-dollar Chinese Internet company Ten Cent. In February 2011 Ten Cent bought a majority shareholding in the company, which it has now augmented to take full ownership and control. Approached …
Life has suddenly improved for a Senagalese refugee identified only as Ngame and his wife, who settled in Spain eight years ago after being rescued from a sinking boat whilst trying to reach Spain from Africa. The presently unemployed farm worker was one of the residents of Roquetas de Mar who bought an El Gordo …
UK online gambling group Betfair, which is about to merge with Paddy Power to create an i-gaming powerhouse, has begun advising its Canadian punters that it plans to exit the market by January 14 2016. From that date, Canadian residents will no longer be permitted to place wagers or register with the betting exchange. Additionally, …