When retired farmer Stan Knapp went into an Edmonton, Canada drugstore last month to buy his usual Lotto Max lottery ticket he had no idea that he was walking into an accidental fortune…thanks to a store clerk’s error.
Proof that there is a super-abundance of demand in Canada for legal and government regulated gambling over the internet was dramatically afforded Friday, when the official Play Now.com website launched that day by the British Columbia provincial government’s BC Lottery Corporation crashed within the first day due to popular demand.
The police in Tokyo have reported taking down a cell phone gambling ring, and the related arrest of a website operator where 130 million yen in revenues were generated through mobile gambling.
The persistent rumours that online gambling group Betfair is to go public in the UK were given added momentum this week by a Sky News report that the IPO could come as soon as September 2010.
The persistent rumours that online gambling group Betfair is to go public in the UK were given added momentum this week by a Sky News report that the IPO could come as soon as September 2010.
A Microgaming-powered online gambling operation in the the Jackpot Factory Group, Royal Joker Casino.com has informed its players that effective July 21st 2010 its services will no longer be available.
Poland’s controversial proposed new gambling legislation has suffered a setback, raising negative comments from the European Commission to which it was submitted for approval earlier this year.
The PPA’s heads up earlier this week that Congressman Barney Frank’s bill to legalise online gambling in the US is due for another hearing has turned out to be right on the mark. The House Financial Services Committee chaired by Frank has confirmed that HR2267, the Internet Gambling Regulation, Consumer Protection, and Enforcement Act, will …
The PPA’s heads up earlier this week that Congressman Barney Frank’s bill to legalise online gambling in the US is due for another hearing has turned out to be right on the mark. The House Financial Services Committee chaired by Frank has confirmed that HR2267, the Internet Gambling Regulation, Consumer Protection, and Enforcement Act, will …
David Zerah has been appointed as the replacement for recently departed md of Dragonfish, Gabi Campos, a statement this week from parent group 888.com advises.
Online gambling software developer Cryptologic has reported in a trading update that it expects Q2 2010 total revenue to show a slight decline over Q1, and that total costs will be greater than expected.
The Gibraltar-based online betting and gaming firm 32Red has reported record revenues with total gross win of GBP7.8 million in the half-year to end-June (H1 2009: GBP5.8 million).
The police in Israel have been visiting internet service providers (ISPs) in the country this week, ordering the managements to block access to overseas gambling websites on grounds that the pastime is illegal in Israel, reports the newspaper Haaretz.
One of the best known corporate spokesmen in the industry, William Hill plc’s David Hood, has departed the group ‘by mutual agreement.’
The Canadian provincial government for British Columbia will announce a significant expansion of its online offering this week, regulating and legalising online casino games in a first for North America, the Vancouver Sun reports.
New Jersey governor Chris Christie this week damaged political initiatives to reverse a federal ban on sports betting in the state by declaring that he will not sign on for a lawsuit initiated by a state senator against the federal government last year.
One of the veteran companies specializing in the provision of live dealer gambling over the internet, CasinoWebCam.com, has completed an extensive website redesign, adding new games, features and graphics to meet the needs and expectations of clients and players alike.
Shelley Berkely, the feisty Nevada Democrat who supports properly regulated and controlled online gambling in the United States, came out strongly against the recently implemented Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act this week in a major feature article in the Washington DC political publication Roll Call.
The acrimonious dispute between San Francisco online games developer Zynga and the giant internet information group Google is a thing of the past, it appears from reports in the US technical media.
We recommends the special report on gambling – Shuffle Up and Deal – which appeared Friday in the respected UK publication The Economist.
Revenue for the second-largest gambling market in the United States – New Jersey’s Atlantic City – fell more than 11 percent to $286.8 million in June, according to statistics from the Associated Press news agency published late Friday.
The advanced anti-corruption technology used by online betting exchange group Betfair has again contributed to the fight against cheating in sport by flagging a Newport, Rhode Island tennis match between Richard Bloomfield and Christophe Rochus.
The announcement earlier this year that Loto-Quebec intends to enter the online gambling sector has prompted the government in the Canadian province to appoint an advisory committee of independent experts, reports CBC.
Yet another major Asian betting syndicate has been dismantled by Hong Kong police cracking down on illegal internet betting on the World Cup.