The Australian arm of the international gambling group Intralot had the embarrassment of being slapped with a A$30 000 fine by the Victorian state government this week for failing to run a televised bingo game as promised, reports the Australian newspaper TheAge.
One of Australian online sportsbetting group Centrebet’s prime acquisition targets for the past few months, International All Sports, is off the list following Paddy Power’s successful bid to gain a major interest in the company through Sportsbet, and Centrebet is now looking elsewhere, the company announced this week.
The chief executive of Nordicbet.com, Per Helberg, announced a strategic move for his company this week as it expanded beyond its usual Baltic and Scandinavian markets and moved into Poland.
The Australian government is still wrestling with its attempt to censor the Internet and the huge domestic and international outcry it has generated.
The Greek state gambling monopoly OPAP’s involvement of local police to shut down gambling group Stanleybet International’s new Greek retail betting shops late last year has seen a sequel this week.
Congressman Barney Frank’s latest attempt to scupper the UIGEA, his Internet Gambling Regulation, Consumer Protection, and Enforcement Act, HR2267 is gathering momentum following its launch earlier this (May) month.
Giving an example of media coverage and claims unsupported by facts this week, the Finnish website YLE.fi claimed that online gambling may be surpassing unemployment as a common cause of private financial difficulties.
HVS International reports that Macau’s casino revenues recorded approximately $1 billion in April 2009, or a 9 percent decline from a year ago and 13 percent decline from March 2009.
The younger generations may dominate Internet wagering, but when it comes to the land industry the silver foxes rule, according to a new survey by specialist US research company Ypartnership commissioned by slot machine manufacturer WMS Industries.
The UK Internet skill-game developer GameAccount has signed a licensing agreement with video game publisher Eidos Interactive to develop online person-to-person skill-based games based on three of Eidos’s game franchises; Championship Manager, Kane & Lynch: Dead Men and Battlestations: Pacific in non-US markets.
Last week’s demonstrations by gambling operators protesting the unilateral parliamentary ban on all gambling in the Ukraine seem to have had the desired effect, with President Viktor Yuschenko stepping in to calm the situation.
One of online gambling’s most implacable foes – the US National Football League – came under fire from Associated Press over the weekend for its latest moves to increase revenues for owners.
Online gambling websites may be among the many affected by an attempt to impose a total online gaming ban by a Thai criminal court following the suicide of a 12-year-ol boy last week.
Reports in The Times over the weekend confirm rumours that both Party Gaming and 888 are among the final bidders for Internet bingo company Cashcade, which owns FoxyBingo and GetMinted among other websites.
William Hill plc, the UK’s biggest online and land bookmaker, launched a GBP 10 million football-oriented promotion Friday through a specially-created scratchcard campaign celebrating the end of the football season.
The Interactive Media Entertainment and Gaming Association (iMEGA) is up to speed on its two major legal actions against officials in two states overreaching their authority in actions against the online gambling industry.
The Illinois Senate rejected gambling expansion as the week ended that would have put casinos in Park City, Rockford and Chicago, reports the Chicago Tribune.
What is claimed to be the first professional online domino website is gathering momentum at Dominoes Stars.com, a site powered by download and instant proprietary software that includes full anti-collusion measures and is operated by the Boca Raton, Florida company P4SMedia.
Confirmed reports last week that the Royal Bank of Scotland was to eschew online gambling business in regard to the Dutch and Swiss gambling markets have presented an opportunity for its chief rival Barclays group…and it looks as if the enterprising banker will exploit it to the full.
We recently reported that various French gambling companies were manouevring for strong positioning when the French gambling liberalises early next year. Examples of companies involved in a number initiatives included the Cyberarts and NYX Interactive deals with state monopoly Francaise des Jeux for online poker and bingo respectively.
Six of the state of Kentucky’s racetracks showed an unprecedented united front this week at a joint press conference focused on the precarious state of racing in the heartland of US horseracing and to appeal for the legalisation of slot machines.
Another online gambler has found entertainment and wealth at Slotland subsidiary WinADay.com this week with the third six-figure win at the online gambling casino.
Earlier this month we reported on the intention of UK gambling group William Hill plc to extricate itself from Victoria Apuestas, a Spanish sportsbetting venture in which the British company partnered with the Codere group.
The release of the UK Gambling Commission’s latest edition of its ongoing Gambling Prevalence research has been followed by news that the UK National Lottery Commission has initiated an additional and independent study of possible underage gambling on the lottery.