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New 5 line scratchcards from Neogames

18 Mar 2010

The Malta-licensed online scratch card provider Neogames has launched another first for the company – two 5 line instant sctrach card games that give players more opportunities to win in a single game.

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A tale of two halves

18 Mar 2010

The latest full year results from online casino group 32Red.com reflect, as predicted, a tale of two differing halves; the first produced a disappointing performance in a difficult economy, and the second saw improvement, albeit insufficient to be exciting.

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Q1 2010 results release by Chartwell Technology

18 Mar 2010

The Calgary, Canada-based online gambling software developer Chartwell Technology has released its financial results for Q1 2010, a period ending January 31, 2010.

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Buzzluck brand sold…but not the database

18 Mar 2010

Online gambling marketing whizz Alex Czajkowski made a big impression when his eGaming20.com company launched the Buzzluck online casino, taking a fresh and innovative onsite promotional approach that appealed to a wide range of players and generated plenty of, well…buzz.

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Kyl´s delaying tactics pay off

18 Mar 2010

Online gambling’s arch enemy, the Republican senator from Arizona Jon Kyl, apparently chose a potent and successful tactic to ensure the UIGEA regulations are not delayed beyond June 1st.

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Aussie internet censorship delayed

18 Mar 2010

The highly controversial and much criticised attempt by Australia’s Labour government to introduce a statutary body-controlled blacklist of Internet websites, effectively censoring the Internet, has been delayed, according to reports in the Australian mainstream media.

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Plenty of sports action for Betboo

18 Mar 2010

The Latin American-facing sports betting operator and Gaming VC subsidiary Betboo will receive over 1 500 televised sports events every year following an agreement signed with digital sports group Perform this week.

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Bingo site ad banned

18 Mar 2010

The Advertising Standards Authority, Britain’s advertising watchdog and regulator, has banned a television advert flighted by Tombola Bingo for negative racial stereotyping, following a complaint from two members of the public.

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Timely launch

17 Mar 2010

WinADay’s latest game release, a 5 reel 31 payline 3D slot dubbed Leprechaun’s Luck was launched on St Patrick’s Day, backed by a series of promos to mark the international wearing of the green.

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Online casino action for PKR?

17 Mar 2010

The chief executive of the popular UK-based 3D online poker room PKR.com, Malcolm Graham, said in an intervew this week that the company will introduce a suite of casino games to build on the company’s impressive growth since launch in 2006.

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lacklustre year for Neovia

17 Mar 2010

The Internet e-cash processing group Neovia plc has released a lacklustre set of full year results for the period to December 31st 2009.

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71 percent rise in full year profit at Playtech

17 Mar 2010

Playtech Limited has posted a 71 percent rise in full-year net profit and raised its dividend, as new licence agreements boosted its bottom line, and says it has made a good start to 2010.

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Playtech to provide Boyle Sports with online bingo

17 Mar 2010

Online gambling software provider Playtech Ltd. has established a bingo licensing agreement with Ireland’s largest independent bookmaker Boylesports.

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Fourth online gambling portal attacked?

17 Mar 2010

Although full details are not yet to hand, posts at the Gambling Portal Webmasters Association (GPWA) forum indicate that a fourth online gambling information website may have come under distributed denial of service attack.

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Will Hill extends Cryptologic relationship

17 Mar 2010

Online gambling software developer Cryptologic celebrated its ten-year-long business partnership with the major UK bookeeper group William Hill plc this week by extending the relationship with a new multi-year deal to license a suite of its most popular branded casino games.

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Consolidated research on Aussie gambling

17 Mar 2010

Australian academics who carried out a meta-analysis of 34 gambling studies conducted in Australia and New Zealand, claim to have produced the most complete study of gambling prevalence in Australasia to date…and the problem gambling implications are worrying.

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eCOGRA accredits major French online gambling group´s casino software

17 Mar 2010

The online and interactive software supplier subsidiary of the largest privately held land gambling group in France – Groupe Partouche – has successfully achieved accreditation by the independent standards and player protection body eCOGRA.

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Third online gambling portal attacked

17 Mar 2010

A third online gambling information website, the Online Players Union.com, was subjected to a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack Tuesday morning, taking the site down for some 2 hours.

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Will Macau cap casino activity?

17 Mar 2010

Moves to restrict the involvement of more gambling companies in the booming gambling island of Macau could be in prospect, presenting existing licensees like Las Vegas Sands, MGM Mirage and Wynn Resorts with limited new competition.

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Bonnier deal extended by Net Entertainment

17 Mar 2010

Swedish online gambling software provider Net Entertainment extended its partnership with the part-owned Bonnier Gaming bingo subsidiary Bertil Internet Ltd, through an additional delivery of its successful CasinoModule online casino platform.

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Getting social with GTech marketing tool

17 Mar 2010

Online gambling technology and software provider GTechG2 has introduced an innovative social customer relationship manager (CRM) aid to its Bingo platform.

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Lucky warning

16 Mar 2010

The anonymous winner of a $250 000 Mega Millions lottery prize in Maryland was doubly lucky this week when he almost discarded the winning ticket.

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Is this the biggest yet online scratch card jackpot?

16 Mar 2010

Neogames-powered scratch card site Hopa.com reports that an Australian player, SanjaniH has scored what may well be the biggest scratch card jackpot win yet – a $200 000 windfall and the biggest single prize ever paid by the website.

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Another online gambling fights off DDoS attack

16 Mar 2010

Yesterday’s story on a Distributed Denial of Service attack on the Internet gambling information portal Casinomeister.com has been followed by reports of a similar if less severe attack over the weekend on the Online Casino Reviewer.com website.

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