The French investment house Louis Dreyfus is preparing to buy a stake in Mangas Gaming, a 50-50, Paris-based Internet betting joint venture between Bains de Mer de Monaco and the holding company of French TV producer Stephane Courbit.
Some superstitious South African gamblers intent on winning millions on the country’s national lottery have apparently been indulging in a little ‘chemical’ assistance that gives a whole new meaning to the phrase “what have you been smoking?”
Some superstitious South African gamblers intent on winning millions on the country’s national lottery have apparently been indulging in a little ‘chemical’ assistance that gives a whole new meaning to the phrase “what have you been smoking?”
In Sweden an unidentified online gambling company has voluntarily paid back 4.9 million kronor (around $673 000) stolen by a gambling addict from her employer and wagered at its website.
The Jerusalem Post reports that police and prosecution officials have filed indictments in the Petah Tikva District Court against five suspects on charges of money laundering, facilitating illegal gambling, white collar theft, fraud, and tax embezzlement, alleging that between 2000 and 2002, they ran a network of almost 100 gambling computer programs situated in Internet …
Online gambling software developer Playtech and its associate Euro Partners has announced the launch of TV Games. This new format is initially available at the online venues Europa Casino, Titan Casino and Casino Tropez, and offers players a fresh and interactive gaming experience.
An as yet unidentified online player enjoyed a very merry Christmas this year thanks to the Playtech progressive slot Wall Street Fever, which coughed up a very nice $220 335 jackpot on Christmas Day.
The draconian government bans that shut down thousands of casinos and gambling parlours in Russia earlier this year spawned an exodus to the Internet, but also to lands both more climate and state-friendly…like Latin America.
British bookies who offered odds on a white Christmas in London on December 25th heaved a sigh of relief as Christmas Day passed without it happening, despite icy temperatires and heavy snowfalls elsewhere in the British Isles.
British bookies who offered odds on a white Christmas in London on December 25th heaved a sigh of relief as Christmas Day passed without it happening, despite icy temperatires and heavy snowfalls elsewhere in the British Isles.
The online bingo information portal BingoPort.co.uk reports that a new online bingo site launched in July 2009 has made remarkable progress, overtaking well established sites like Foxy Bingo and even Wink Bingo (a major site recently sold to 888.com for almost GBP60 million)
The respected online gambling information site MajorWager.com has reported on an interesting sequel to last week’s news that the troubled 1×2.com gambling operation had been raided by police in Israel .
In what is being interpreted as another sign that America’s major sports leagues may be taking a softer approach to the US gambling industry, the National Football League has announced that tourist destinations that licence gambling such as Las Vegas and Reno will soon be allowed to advertise at NFL games…including the next Super Bowl.
It’s taken two years and a heap of litigation for wrongful dismissal, but the former CEO of the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation, Kelly McDougald, has obtained satisfaction from her former employers, settling for Cdn$ 747 925 just in time for Christmas.
A new Forsa study of German online gambling commissioned by the Association of Information Technology, Telecommunications and New Media (Bitkom) has shown that attempts to ban online gambling in order to protect state monopolies have only slightly dampened demand from German Internet punters.
The UK-based interactive television and online gambling group NetPlayTV has announced that, following a pilot trial over several months, it has mutually agreed with Stanleybet International to curtail a project to provide 100 of Stanley’s overseas betting shops with a live online roulette feed.
Betbull, which achieved control of a joint Spanish venture with the Bwin group recently has announced that it is to effect a new share issue in order to raise a million Euros to develop the Betbull Bwin Espana retail betting business in Madrid.
The so-called sweepstakes parlours in North Carolina have dodged the legal bullet following a finding by an appeals court which preserved a broad ban on physical video poker machines, but found that phone card sweepstakes do not at present constitute illegal conduct.
The Gibraltar-based Internet operations of UK gambling group William Hill plc has launched seven new languages for the William Hill Casino Club, augmenting the eleven language versions previously available.
The first signals appeared a month ago in the French newspaper La Tribune, but there is now growing concern that the much-anticipated liberalisation of the French gambling market is running behind schedule and is unlikely to be in place before the football World Cup next year.
Is the UK government contemplating a ‘secondary licensing’ scheme to regulate offshore bookies? It’s a question the industry is asking following a review of the migration offshore by many UK bookies in an attempt to remain competitive in low tax jurisdictions.
Is the UK government contemplating a ‘secondary licensing’ scheme to regulate offshore bookies? It’s a question the industry is asking following a review of the migration offshore by many UK bookies in an attempt to remain competitive in low tax jurisdictions.
The UK online and interactive television gambling group NetPlayTV has completed the acquisition of Abstract Games, which will be sold back to the original owners with the company retaining subscription services revenues.
Belgian online punter DavidR can go on a last-miniute Christmas buying spree following his Euro 131 076 win on the Treasure Nile progressive slot this week at Jackpot Factory group’s All Slots Casino.com.