Respected online gambling group Sportingbet Plc reports good progress in released results (unaudited) for the first quarter of its financial year.
Internet gambler Dinesh Enoka Abeysuriya (29), described by his lawyer as a “lonely and depressed” Sri Lankan on an Australian work visa, has pleaded guilty to embezzling a Queensland charity out of A$1.5 million.
It’s been over two years since the state of Kentucky embarked on an extraordinary attempt to seize 141 international online gambling domain names owned by entities outside the Commonwealth, but this week saw another new move by Kentucky’s legal representatives.
Developer and supplier of online casino software, Rival Gaming have launched their latest release titled Cream of the Crop.
Mr Green.com, the innovative online casino founded by two Betsson pioneers has again scored high among internet gambling sites in Sweden’s Internetworld awards.
The allegedly botched Betfair promo that has seen the usually respectable UK online gambling group becoming the target of widespread player criticism on the message boards entered a new phase this week as the company completed investigations into individual accounts and started firing off what many see as autocratic emails to its players.
Victor Chandler International Ltd has signed an exclusive multi-year agreement with Entraction and will complete the migration of its players to the Entraction poker network in December 2010. Entraction has provided Victor Chandler with its poker product on restricted markets since the beginning of 2007.
Further developments in the Federal case against a Wilkes-Barre Sports Bar owner, Patrick Patte Jr. who pleaded guilty last month to aiding and abetting the wire transmission of illegal gambling information have now come back to bite him a second time with the possible revocation of his pub license.
Latest numbers from the independent internet measurement and monitoring organisation ComscoreMedia show that online gambling sites saw another month of increased traffic propelled by online poker tournaments, sports betting and interest due to legislative debates on the subject.
Recent major public company listings and mergers involving internet gambling groups in Europe, along with the “slight” possibility of a more liberalised US internet gambling market, are cited as indicators that the industry is gaining in popularity, according to a lengthy article in the investment publication Interactive Investor this week.
The Carlos III University of Madrid has completed a first-time study on online gambler behaviour after analysing gambling patterns and perceptions among internet punters.
Media in the US state of New Jersey reported late Monday that S490, a bill legalising online gaming within the state, was among several to pass the state Senate only weeks after cruising through committee stage .
The on-again-off-again sale of the UK Tote has taken a new direction this week with the news that the UK Government is prepared to sell off parts of the operation instead of as a whole operation.
Microgaming’s live dealer offering, Quickfire, has been chosen by Leon Gaming, adding live dealer action that includes Roulette, BlackJack, Baccarat and Multi-player Baccarat to its OddsRing.com site.
Barely two weeks after passing through the committee stage, a New Jersey State legislative proposal, S-490, goes to the Senate floor today (Monday), with the potential to make the State the first in the USA to legalise online gambling.
The contentious issue of gambling companies subsidising the Irish horseracing industry came to the fore over the weekend as the Irish economic situation worsened and the prospect of EU bail-outs loomed closer.
Betfair’s Australian division, which is currently sponsoring the Ashes cricket series, has come out strongly in favour of criminal charges for corrupt sportsmen.
Newly launched City Tower Casino.com, developed and maintained by Playtech is regulated by the Government of Curaçao and owned by Unimaster Ltd.
Online casino operator, 32Red has signed a six figure deal with Northern Racing to sponsor the starting stalls at six racecourses in Britain reports Racing Today.
Amid independent reports from the key G2E Expo in Las Vegas this week that momentum appears to be building for the legalisation of US online gambling, the Las Vegas Sun newspaper carried an interesting interview over the weekend.
The mayor of La Linea, a city near online gambling licensing jurisdiction Gibraltar, reminded the Gibraltar Chronicle this week that The Rock may have the clients and the technology, but its communication links are through Spain….and La Linea expects to benefit from it.
Illegal online gambling operators were again the target of a series of six raids carried out this week by the Malaysian police.
The launch this week of Loto Quebec’s new internet gambling operation EspaceJeux revealed that online poker will be offered on a platform that the British Columbia Lottery Corporation will partner in at the beginning of 2011.
Two well known names in the online gambling technology sector, Canada’s bingo specialist Parlay Entertainment and UK mobile gambling provider Probability plc, have been raising cash through private placements this week.