The latest in a seemingly endless series of negotiations between Antigua and Barbuda and the USA over an online gambling dispute seems to have bogged down, judging by an impassioned plea to the United Nations last week by Antigua PM Gaston Browne. In a speech to the Assembly, Browne talked about the twelve-year dispute and …
DJI Holdings, a London-based firm that has penetrated the Chinese lottery market (see previous reports), has announced a new achievement, reporting that it has been given official approval to conduct a mobile sports lottery app field trial in the Shandong provincial city of Qingdao. DJI’s joint venture Qingdao Taifa Network Science Technology Service will conduct …
UK residents; brace yourself for a storm of daily fantasy advertisements following the announcement Friday that DraftKings has inked a partnership deal with the usually fanatical anti-betting US National Football League. The three-year deal is in respect of the NFL’s annual three-game series in Britain and will see DraftKings branding, promotional events, tournament activity and …
Depending on your personal view, online gambling operator Betsafe’s latest Rugby World Cup promotional campaign is amusing and innovative….or rather vulgar. The company has gone to some expense to equip selected pubs across Britain with purpose-built urinals fitted with motion sensors and an eye-level video screen. The idea is that the natural output of players …
Macau’s struggling gambling industry could receive a boost from the Chinese government before the end of the year, although details of what this could include have not yet been made public. The new was enough to lift Macau gambling company share prices significantly, Bloomberg business news reported Friday. Li Gang, director of the China’s local …
The Amusement and Music Owners Association of New York would on the face of it appear to be an unlikely supporter for legalised online gambling, but the trade association and equipment supplier Betson Enterprises are about to embark on just such a campaign. The goal is to secure licenses for on-premises electronic betting services as …
The latest online gambling operator to join the eSports trend is Dafabet, which this week signed a partnership deal with eSports operator Fnatic, agreeing to sponsor and promote the site to its international player base, and provide Dafabet branding for Fnatic eSports tournaments. Dafabet will additionally offer betting action on Fnatic tournament matches on games …
The Cambodian government has issued 10 new land casino licenses but says that the new operators are mainly interested in online opportunities that are possible through the licenses; in Cambodia, land licensees can add online gambling to their offering. Ros Phearun, deputy director general of the financial industry department at the Ministry of Economy and …
Apollo Entertainment Ltd, which operates the Casino Rewards online gambling enterprise, had to defend a serious age-related issue reported to the Advertising Standards Authority last month. Whilst it was successful, the case did highlight a potential problem area for the industry. The complaint came from a member of the public who reported that Casino Rewards …
The overall Czech gambling industry is worth around 138,000,000,000 Czech Korunas (GBP 3,761,890,857) a year in wagers based on 2014 statistics, and the online and mobile component is growing rapidly, the Prague Post reported this week. It is estimated that gambling companies in general earned roughly 30,000,000,000 Kč in 2014. The popularity (and the big …
A little over eighteen months ago the owners of the famous US resort casino Foxwoods, the Mashantucket Pequot Gaming Enterprise, and Irish online gambling technology company GameAccount teamed up to debut GAN’s first free-to-play ‘Simulated Gaming’ online casino product in the US…but the partnership has not lasted. In separate announcements this week the two companies …
UK online punters will soon be bombarded by more new television advertisements as Genting and Sky Vegas drum up business through their respective advertising agencies. Genting Alderney Limited is going after “The Serious Player” as part of a big-money campaign which kicks off next week. Created by LRD e-Gambling Partnership, the ads have a heavy …
Australian punters spent US$20 billion on gambling in 2014 and continue to head the global per-capita spend list according to a new study by Thomson Reuters-H2 Gambling Capital. Aussies lost US$1,130 per person, ahead of the next big spenders – the Singaporeans on US$1,000 a head. In per-capita spend the US is third, New Zealand …
Macau’s woes continued in September as gross gambling revenues dropped 33 percent year-on-year as forecast by analysts, who attributed the drop to China’s ongoing clampdown, slower traffic in the run-up to the Golden Week holiday, low VIP win rate and junket liquidity issues. Statistics from the island’s regulator showed that GGR in September was MOP17.1 …
The announcement that online gambling group Amaya Inc. and its subsidiaries Pokerstars and Full Tilt have been cleared for operations in the regulated and licensed New Jersey online gambling market triggered a surge in the company’s share price Thursday, taking the stock to its highest level in 15 months. The stock jumped 15 percent to …
The recent announcement by Sweden’s Minister of Public Administration, Ardalan Shekarabi, of a timetable for the revision of Sweden’s controversial online gambling laws (see previous reports) has been welcomed by state-owned Svenska Spel. CEO Lennart Käll said the minister’s intentions were good news for the industry, and that he hoped it would bring about a …
According to filings today on the Malaysian stock exchange, the Lim family have agreed to sell their Genting Alderney online gaming business in the UK to Genting Malaysia Bhd, a 49.3 percent owned Genting subsidiary, for GBP 7.2 million in cash, the motivation being to streamline the group’s gaming business under one management. Genting Alderney …
Brit online gambling operator Sky Betting and Gaming has joined the growing number of companies entering the eSports vertical, partnering with content provider Betgenius to introduce the new service The head of sports betting at Sky, Ben Wright, said Wednesday that his company see potential in the rapidly growing eSports sector and is using long-time …
The Scandinavian operators of online adventure casino Casumo have launched in the UK market after a successful integration of pound sterling into the platform. Casumo offers players the opportunity to win prizes and trophies by collecting in-game points that unlock new levels and planets to explore in their personalised casino, and the UK launch follows …
One of the industry hot topics discussed at this year’s G2E conference in Las Vegas has been the changing preferences on casino gaming of the key “millennial” generation which is so important for future business in both land and online gambling. GameOn has already used the event to preview its skill-based content for gambling cabinets …
Online casino operator Sky Vegas has launched an exclusive slot titled Jungle Jackpots developed for it by Blueprint Gaming and featuring a theme derived from the Jungle Book that includes endearing characters like Baloo, Kaa, Mowgli and the elephant Hathi. The timing coincides with publicity surrounding the launch next year of the movie The Jungle …
Releasing statistics for August 2015 on Wednesday, the Nevada Gaming Control Board said that the state’s casinos kept $908 million of the money gamblers wagered, down 1.4 percent from the comparative period last year. The returns were pulled down by an ongoing slide in baccarat play linked to a wavering economy and corruption clampdown in …
Major UK online and land gambling group William Hill plc showcased its progress in developing Virtual Reality gambling products at its research facility in Shoreditch this week, BBC News reports. The initial applications feature horse racing, using either Google Cardboard or Oculus Rift technology to provide the user with a comprehensive VR experience backed by …
Novomatic Group-owned developer GreenTube has clinched a deal with Foxwoods Resort Casino for the provision of a social casino platform. With the implementation of the Greentube Pro product, Foxwoods Resort Casino will be able to leverage a portfolio of games from Novomatic and GreenTube while maintaining a complete brand standard across the platform. Felix Rappaport, …