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New online casino licensee for Microgaming

28 Oct 2009

Jenningsbet.com, an online sportsbook operator that already offers online poker facilities on the Microgaming Poker Network, has extended its services with a full, 400+ game online casino from the same software provider.

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Cryptologic launches first DC Comics themed games

28 Oct 2009

Cryptologic Limited, the global developer of branded online betting games and Internet casino software, has launched a new downloadable game lineup that will bring DC Comics’ Super Heroes Batman and Wonder Woman to the world’s Internet casinos for the first time.

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CCG previews new remote gaming operation

28 Oct 2009

The Caribbean Casino and Gaming Corporation used the opening of its new land operation Sosua Bay Grand Casino in Dominica to preview a new remote gaming offering which will apparently go live before year-end.

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More progressive jackpots fall

28 Oct 2009

Vegas Technology-powered online casinos were generous on the progressives front again as the week commenced, with Golden Casino reporting a $94 459 hit on the 3 reel Win, Place or Show – the biggest on that machine yet.

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Greek government holds off again on gambling taxation

27 Oct 2009

The Greek government’s plans to impose a new 10 percent tax on gambling winnings have been further suspended, and new talks are scheduled on the measure following strong opposition from sales agents of the country’s betting monopoly OPAP, the Reuters news agency advises.

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Alderney tweaks licensing system

27 Oct 2009

The Alderney Gambling Control Commission has completed enhancements to its licensing regime following local government approval, and is now set to launch its new product in January 2010.

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Tain to offer sportsbook white label deals

27 Oct 2009

Online gambling software provider Tain AB is to offer its licensees an expanded online gambling system, augmenting its existing product line of online casino and poker with white label sportsbook facilities.

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Quick progress for iCard

27 Oct 2009

The ingenious interactive racecard launched in September has quickly gathered support from leading industry sportsbooks. Press Association Sport reports this week that it has signed up sportsbooks Betfred, Blue Square and Digibet as white label partners.

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Seven new online games from GTech G2 group

27 Oct 2009

GTechG2 group, the online gambling provider that includes Dynamite Idea, Finsoft, Boss Media and St. Miniver in its subsidiaries, has unveiled Casino 4.10, it’s latest software upgrade and new games package.

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Offsitebet.com will carry bingo to Spain and Eastern Europe

27 Oct 2009

Offsidebet.com, an online gambling operator focused on new and emerging online gaming markets, has chosen Virtue Fusion Alderney as its online bingo supplier.

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And Major Millions pays out again

27 Oct 2009

Details are still scarce, but this week started with a progressive jackpot bang at the Microgaming-powered Aztec Riches Casino when a player hit a $295 272 progressive jackpot on the Major Millions slot.

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Major Slotland.com windfall for pensioner

27 Oct 2009

Online casino operator Slotland.com reports that a retired grandmother who prefers the quiet comfort of online casinos to the noise and smoke of Las Vegas land operations won a progressive jackpot of $175 812 on October 12th.

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Online Indian ventures for Top UK companies

27 Oct 2009

The province of Sikkim is likely to have the distinction of being the first Indian state to issue online gambling licenses, and UK gambling giants like Betfair and William Hill Online are among the first into the sector with licensing applications, reports The Independent newspaper.

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Right2Bet hits 10000 signatures

26 Oct 2009

Right2Bet, the campaign for the liberalisation of online gambling in the E.U. , has reached the 10 000 signature mark in its quest to gain a million supporters for its cause.

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Ladbrokes gets it´s cash

26 Oct 2009

Investors still clearly like the Ladbrokes brand and potential judging by reports in the London business press this week that the last 5 percent of the company’s GBP 375 million rights issue has been taken up. Shareholders in Ladbrokes agreed to buy the shares following the company’s cash call on 8 October to cut its debt …

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Internet betting bust in Ohio

26 Oct 2009

According to the Dayton, Ohio Daily News the local law enforcement in Montgomery County raided and shut down an Internet cafe which made online games of chance available to patrons on some 50 PCs.

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Betfair investment in Watercooler confirmed

26 Oct 2009

This (Monday) morning’s report on an investment by online gambling group Betfair in California-based social networking applications provider Watercooler has been confirmed.

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Skybet revenues up 9 percent

26 Oct 2009

BSkyB online and interactive television gambling subsidiary Skybet has posted a full year rise in revenues of 9 percent to GBP 48 million, noting that an easing of the interactive television income stream was compensated by an increase in online bets.

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Betfair explores online social networking

26 Oct 2009

Industry sources are abuzz at the news expected later today (Monday) that online gambling giant Betfair’s Australian operations are about to make a major investment in the social networking provider Watercooler, an Internet start-up that has registered 26 million users in only two years.

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Norsk Tipping joins problem gambling trial

24 Oct 2009

The IRGO-Spelinstitutet problem gambler online self-diagnotic software developed in Sweden is now being offered by the Norwegian state gambling monopoly Norsk Tipping.

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System glitch blamed for gambler payout delays

23 Oct 2009

Cynical online gamblers who have seen it all before are all too familiar with the slow-pay excuse “it’s a software glitch,” but in a finding by the Malta regulator this week that appears to have been the case regarding Bet After Bet.com.

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Betfair opens US horserace betting to Brits

23 Oct 2009

Online betting exchange Betfair has scored another American coup, reaching a deal that will allow common-pool betting on next month’s Breeders’ Cup at the Kentucky racecourse Santa Anita Park, reports Associated Press.

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Feds go after e-processor´s emails

23 Oct 2009

The Baltimore City Paper reports that federal enforcement officials in Maryland continue to pursue Internet cash processor Electracash Inc., recently the subject of financial seizure orders based on allegations of processing online gambling transactions.

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Kentucky submissions heard

23 Oct 2009

The main focus of industry interest as the week ends was Thursday’s Kentucky Supreme Court hearing on whether the state government has the jurisdiction to seize 141 international domain names owned by online gambling companies based beyond the reach of Kentucky enforcement.

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