Canada was at the epicentre of a state lottery scandal last year in which statistics showed that an unnaturally large percentage of lottery ticket sellers were winning prizes.
Bingo technology provider Virtue Fusion Alderney has announced the launch of its multi-currency, multi-lingual, networked software on Swedish gambling monopoly Svenska Spel’s new online Bingo website, Svenska Bingo.
Media reports last week that online gambling companies interested in the soon-to-regulated French Internet sector were already advertising in the region have been followed by the news that the French government has called a halt to the premature promotions.
Canadian delegates to the International Masters of Gaming Law Spring Conference in Windsor, Canada have revealed that the US anti-online gambling law the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act is disrupting not only American online horserace wagering and state lottery operations, but those in Canada as well.
The gates to ParaDice, the newest gaming platform at the Vienna-listed online gambling giant Bwin, are now open at https://games.bwin.com/dice.aspx following the launch this week.
A Las Vegas case filed in February against 52-year-old retired Omaha businessman and philanthropist Terry Watanabe will be heard on May 13 following a Grand Jury indictment this week on two counts of theft and two counts of bad cheques.
Irish on-course bookies and the online betting exchange Betfair appear set for a monumental row over fees paid to Horse Racing Ireland by the Internet gambling group.
The New Jersey authorities report the arrest of 28 persons this week, accused of involvement in a ‘Mafia-run’ sports gambling ring that handled more than $1 million in illegal wagers each week.
Mecca Bingo celebrated it’s newly revamped website this week with a major win of GBP 111 967, scooped by a player who had staked a mere GBP 1.80 in a late night bingo session.
The extraordinary attempt by the state of Minnesotas’s Alcohol & Gambling Enforcement Division to require ISPs and telecomms companies to block online gambling sites operating outside the states continued to dominate the headlines as the week ended, overshadowing even Barney Frank’s new bill attacking the UIGEA, which is scheduled for introduction next week.
Online bingo site Crown Bingo has reported its biggest ever pay out of GBP 240 561 to lucky member Glen Johnson of Bristol in England.
Vancouver, Canada-based online games developer BaddaMedia Inc. has signed an agreement to provide Gaming Technology Solutions plc with original games content.
Asia-facing online and land gambling group AsianLogic Limited has reported a 49 percent fall in adjusted pretax profit for 2008, following a significant increase in operational expenses and bad debt provisions.
The expanded online gambling services offered by UK Internet and land gambling group William Hill plc delivered an impressive rise in revenue of 50 percent, the company revealed this week in releasing its Q1 2009 numbers.
Neovia plc’s full year results to December 31 2008 were published this week, and will do little to cheer investors.
Online e-cash processor Neovia plc (formerly Neteller) has releasing trading results for the first quarter of 2009, and the numbers are disappointing.
The British government’s minister for sports, Gerry Sutcliffe, is having a busy week with gambling interests front and centre. He is not only working on an anti-corruption task force to combat sports bet cheating but is now embroiled in arguments that offshore Internet gambling sites that advertise in the UK should be coughing up more …
The Club World online gambling group announced the launch of its latest new property, Lucky Red Casino.com this week. Offering full player facilities and over 120 games powered by RealTime Gaming, the well executed website includes a new interactive lobby experience.
The recent string of suspicious betting pattern alarms in British and international sporting events has again focused attention on the British government’s determination to stamp out cheating and corruption in sports across the gambling board.
Tote Tasmania has announced that May 30th 2009 will be the launch date for its new sports betting business, Betasport, which will offer users a larger variety of prop bets and will target both Austrailian and international markets.
Yesterday’s online gambling banning notification from the Minnesota Department of Public Safety’s Alcohol and Gaming Division has made mainstream media headlines throughout the world, and has predictably fired up almost immediate opposition from civil rights and Internet freedom groups.
Online gambling licensing jurisdiction and hub, the Isle of Man, embarked on a consultative process this week before assembling guidelines for the Prevention of Money Laundering and Countering of Terrorist Financing, required in terms of the Criminal Justice (Money Laundering — Online Gambling) (No. 2) Code 2008, which came into operation on 18th December 2008.
Online sportsbetting group Betbull Holding SE reported on its full year 2008 performance this week, delivering a 21.1 percent increase in NGR to Euro 16.094 million, but a loss for the twelve months of Euro 4.3 million.
In a move reminiscent of recent Australian attempts to censor the Internet at ISP level, the Minnesota Department of Public Safety (DPS) Alcohol and Gambling Enforcement Division (AGED) today announced that it has served written notice to 11 national and regional telephone and Internet service providers (ISPs) instructing them to prohibit access of all Minnesota-based …