Betclic Everest has signed a deal for the launch of eleven Inspired Gaming Group virtual sports products which will be broadcast via two feeds through its Betclic.it operation. “We believe this high quality product will be in line with our Italian customer expectations,” said Francesco Postiglione who heads up the Italian operation. The addition of …
Ensuring the safety of US sports bettors is the claimed motivation behind HB 443, a bill submitted earlier this year in Nevada which seeks to legalise so-called “messenger betting” by punters outside the borders of Nevada, a practice currently regarded as unlawful in the state. Nevada is one of only four US states permitted to …
Official numbers from the Delaware online gambling regulator show an encouraging uptick for February, with an 8.3 percent month-over-month rise in revenues. Delaware e-gaming sites took in $143,101 in February ($132,074 in the preceding month), but the number is still well down on the best month since regulation – April 2014 – when revenues reached …
Shareholders in Macau gambling companies must be hoping that analysts have got it right in their assessments this week that the worst may be over in Macau, with share prices are starting to stabilise after a trying period when business fell off under the dual pressure of China’s slowing economy and a crackdown on corruption. …
Hot on the heels of its release of Mystical Monkey’s (see previous report), Genesis Gaming has launched “Dragons Rock”, a new 50-line video slot featuring a family of amiable dragons lead by the Black Dragon patriarch. Bonus symbols on the reels hatch baby dragons to deliver a prize, while three bonus scatters trigger an interactive …
The UK Minister for Sport and Tourism – Helen Grant and the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport – Sajid Javid have announced public appointments to the board of the Gambling Commission. Alison Hastings and Trevor Pearce CBE were appointed to a 4-year term, and Jonathan Scott for 5 years as Gambling Commissioners. …
NYX Gaming Group has announced the addition of its NYX OGS casino offer within its NYX Poker product. Operators will be able to offer their customers a range of hand-selected casino games accessible seamlessly from within their poker client. “We keep on adding value to our Ongame acquisition and our overall footprint,” commented David Flynn, …
GTECH confirmed the completion of its cross-border merger with International Game Technology PLC (IGT) followed immediately by the acquisition of the U.S.-based IGT effective today (Tuesday). The combined companies will now be known as International Game Technology PLC (IGT PLC) with corporate headquarters in London, and operating headquarters in Rome, Italy; Providence, Rhode Island; and …
Dutch media reports this week indicate that the new State Justice and Security Secretary, Klaas Dijkhoff will continue to drive the licensing and regulation of online gambling in much the same way as his predecessor Fred Teeven, who resigned recently (see previous report). Answering questions from members of the House of Representatives, Dijkhoff said he …
The Betat online casino group has communicated with players who were complaining about patchy technical performance over the long weekend, advising them that the operation has been fighting off a significant Distributed Denial of Service attack. DDoS assaults are mounted by criminal elements trying to unlawfully extort money from the victim by threatening to overwhelm …
With the British election for a new government just weeks away, it has emerged that the appointment of a successor to outgoing head of the UK Gambling Commission Jenny Williams will not take effect until the political changing of the guard has been concluded…current estimates are that the appointment could be as late as September …
The at one time ubiquitous socialite and heiress Paris Hilton will be in your face again soon following a television advertising deal with online casino operator BGO Entertainment. BGO has hired Hilton to star in a new UK-facing TV campaign alongside actor Verne Troyer, who has worked with BGO previously and is perhaps better known …
Last week a review of Swedish online gambling restrictions on advertising published its findings, providing a workaround on earlier judicial decisions that the regulations did not comply with European Union laws, mainly due to the different punitive measures imposed on international transgressors vs. locally-based offenders. Swedish law prohibits any online gambling advertising or promotion by …
A new online casino supporting Bitcoin transactions has surfaced on the internet under Curacao licensing and the title Betkurus.com. Owned by DigitalSport Entertainment NV, the project was reportedly part-financed by the Hong Kong-based Bitcoin processor CoinMatrix to the tune of around $670,000. The games on the site, which appears targeted on the Turkish, Argentinian, Brazil …
Further revelations on Florida property developer Glenn Straub’s ambitions in Atlantic City has surfaced over the past 24 hours following his boasts that he has bought troubled land casinos in the region and plans to spend around half a billion dollars on redevelopments. The Associated Press news agency reports that Straub, who has just bought …
A new directive from China’s central government Ministry of Finance has advised that companies selling tickets online for Chinese sports and welfare industries must be approved by three different Ministries, according to a report Saturday in the China Daily newspaper. The Ministry of Finance directs that the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the General Administration of …
Veteran US and Nevada Senator Harry Reid’s recently announced retirement from politics may be a good thing for the industry, judging by his most recent comments on the legalisation of online poker. In a radio interview last week Reid (75), who has hitherto been for legalised online poker but against internet casino activity, appeared to …
You have to wonder whether young American entrepreneurs Paul Liberman, Jason Robins and Matt Kalish, the founders of daily fantasy sports betting site DraftKings, could have imagined how powerful their company would become when they put the project together just two years ago in Boston. Today it’s one of the two top sites in a …
Tracy King, a 39-year-old mother of three, was fortunate to escape a jail sentence this week despite admitting to the theft of a large sum of money from her partner in order to gamble online. Thanks mainly to her partner’s forgiving attitude she was spared imprisonment by the Chelmsford Crown Court on Thursday. King stole …
After months of debate and several false starts in the New Jersey bankruptcy court, the sale of the Revel building has finally been approved to Florida developer Glenn Straub for $82 million. Revel went bust just two years after it was constructed in Atlantic City at a cost of $2.4 billion, and has been the …
Chinese lottery operators hit by February’s suspension orders from local authorities following a central government directive (see previous reports) will be relieved by the news Thursday that the suspensions may be lifted within the next 8 weeks. The news that the suspension may be lifted soon was broken by Tencent’s technology news website, which quoted …
Hopes earlier this year that Indiana Representative Alan Morrison would be successful in pushing two legalisation bills – one for sports betting and the other to allow state gaming establishments to accept wagers on daily fantasy sports – have died with the measures at committee stage according to local media reports. The bills were introduced …
One of the top daily fantasy sports companies in the United States, DraftKings, scored a coup this week by becoming the official DSF game of Major League Baseball (MLB). The multi-year agreement extends DraftKing’s relationship with the MLB, which invested in the company’s equity two years ago A statement from DraftKings reveals that the expanded …
Police in northern Sarawak, Malaysia were active again this week in online gambling raids, reporting that 15 people had been arrested and 28 computers, two data-link units and other evidence seized. A team from the state Anti-Vice, Gaming and Gangsterism unit and local police led by ASP Mohd Zulkarnain raided one venue, catching operator and …