Anurag Dikshit, the Indian computer technology professional who helped found online gambling group Party Gaming plc and in the process made a huge fortune, is to sell all but 38.8 million of his remaining shares in the company.
Most of the major UK online gambling companies are members of the Remote Gaming Association trade body, which this week marked October 19th as Responsible Gambling Awareness Day with a practical initiative communicating the industry’s commitment to the prevention of problem gambling.
Online gambling software developer Microgaming is upping the scare stakes with the launch of four new scary-themed bingo side games in time for the Halloween period.
The New Zealand Racing Board is to install a new, state-of-the-art Australian-designed betting system called Typhoon to replace the TAB’s ageing Jetbet system by December 2010, chief exec Andrew Brown announced this week.
The German state of Schleswig-Holstein could be about to break step with the 15 other German states with whom it signed the German Interstate Treaty on Gambling last year.
Internet cash voucher group Ukash has inked a deal with another new partner. It’s agreement this week with the Russian-based Wallet One will allow hundreds of thousands of global customers to purchase Ukash vouchers from W1 online accounts and spend securely online using the unique, patented Ukash PIN code.
William Hill plc stayed true to its recent trading update in releasing its third quarter numbers this week, recording a 3 percent drop in revenues in a tough quarter.
Online gambling software developer Vegas Technology, which numbers the English Harbour Internet gambling group among its licensees, has released two new games, both 5 reel, 25 pay-line, feature-rich video slots.
Internet skill gaming website WorldWinner.com has launched its latest game, a cash game version of Hasbro’s classic mystery game in the whodunnit genre, ‘Clue’.
The Internet search engine and information giant Google appears to have stepped back from the alleged imposition of search engine penalties on Media Corporation’s Gambling.com two years ago, according to reports over the weekend in the Independent newspaper.
Britain’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) keeps a stern eye on the advertising of gambling firms, and this week it was William Hill Online under the spotlight for a free bet offer that generated a complaint.
Congressman Barney Frank’s legislative proposal to legalise online gambling in the United States – bill HR 2267 – has attracted its sixty-first political supporter.
The anonymous resident of Anyang City in the Henan Province of China who last week cracked the biggest lottery prize in recent Chinese history has unwittingly caused a flood of betting pilgrims to come to the city, boosting local business.
The tenacious nature of the governor of Kentucky and his outsourced lawyers will again be at the centre of industry discussions this week as Governor Steve Beshear’s attempt to confiscate 141 international domain names is once again heard in a law court.
More detail is now available on last week’s news that an Intercasino player had won a major jackpot.
Land casino operators in Macau, already feeling the weight of the global economic meltdown and government pressure to curtail expansion, were faced with more worries as the week ended with fears of visa restrictions.
The Hungarian media are having some fun with reports that the entire 15-strong police force in the small town of Budaors has handed in its badges after winning a lottery jackpot for an undisclosed amount.
The news earlier this week that the Australian state of Tasmania is to replace taxes for corporate bookmakers with a flat fee of $256 000 a year appears to have triggered a competitive policy decision from the Northern Territory government.
Hopes that the Obama administration in the United States would bring a more enlightened vision to the online gambling scene, and a delay in the implementation of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Regulations, are fading as the industry considers the content and implications of the US government’s Final Rule.
The veteran online gambling software developer Cryptologic has issued a trading update ahead of the release of its third quarter results on November 5th, indicating that the traditionally slow nusiness period has not been kind to the company.
Back in June this year, following an investigation into discriminatory US online gambling policies which discouraged foreign competition, the EU issued a statement and its report at http://www.eurunion.org/eu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1778#InternetGambling.
The government of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) has tabled a bill in the Legislative Assembly which it claims will streamline and better control and regulate gambling in the province.