The UK listed betting group Webis Holdings plc, has released its financials for the period ended 30 November 2008.
Inspired Gaming Group plc, a provider of Open Server-Based Gaming services in the UK high volume, low stake Leisure sector, has inked an extension to its five year gaming supply contract with Bourne Leisure. The long term contract with the owner of Warner Breaks, Haven, British Holidays and Butlins has been extended by a further …
Casino Red, a land extension of the online gambling casino bearing the same brand, closed abruptly in December last year, only months after a GBP 5 million renovation project on the premises, a former cinema in the town of Huddersfield, UK turning it into an elegant and licensed land casino
Kang Byung-kyu, a baseball player turned-television celebrity in Korea, has received a suspended jail term for gambling through online gambling sites .
The Isle of Man- based online gambling software provider Microgaming has added another accolade to its trophy cabinet following a black tie dinner in London last week at which the Casino Affiliate Programs annual awards were presented.
Betdirect, which was acquired from 32Red by Stan James (Gibraltar) Limited in 2007, is being absorbed into the group’s core operations, effecting streamlined overheads and extended customer service.
The long running discussion on why Ontario Lottery “insiders” seem to win a disproportionately high number of prizes took another turn this week with the release of an independent report from auditors Deloitte & Touche that showed a higher incidence of insider wins than had previously been estimated.
Betfair has used its sophisticated betting pattern analytical resources to refute suggestions that there may have been corruption in a controversial tennis match between Croat Antonio Veic and Argentine Guillermo Canas in Zagreb recently.
Online gambling’s leading US legislative supporter, Congressman Barney Frank, is ready to again throw his hat into the ring in trying to bring some consistency and fairness to US political positions on Internet gambling.
Market research specialists MECN are optimistic on the available markets for online gambling operators in the Balkans, according to the companies latest survey publicity.
The online gambling group Betfair has commissioned another interesting and independent study of factors influencing Internet gambling, hiring cxpartners to look at how online betting experiences differ across different cultures.
According to SC Magazine, scammers using scripts are simulating the actions of legitimate gamblers and gathering information that can be used to increase the odds of winning bets.
The Bangkok Post reports that a police squad of 70 men were deployed this week to arrest an Indian businessman accused of involvement in an international online gambling organisation with a turnover of billions of baht.
Stockholm-listed Net Entertainment has signed two contracts for the delivery of its CasinoCafé product with Delta Invest Ltd in Russia and PCP Electronics Ltd in Cyprus.
A $65 million fraud allegedly committed against the giant San Jose company Fry’s Electronics by senior exec Ausaf Umar Siddiqui (43) last year apparently triggered a visit to Las Vegas casinos by Internal Revenue Service investigators this week.
A German lottery player was left stunned by a bad luck-good luck sequence this week that saw him lose his job due to the economic recession, only to win $35 million on the Toto-Lotto Lower Saxony lottery.
Giant US financial company Wells Fargo has backed away from a highly controversial proposed corporate junket to Las Vegas following a public outcry that a company in receipt of $25 billion in taxpayer bailout funds should be more sensitive to public perceptions.
A 26-year-old UK finance and credit controller for a communications firm managed to misappropriate around GBP 300 000 a year for over three years to feed an online gambling habit that saw him lose almost a million pounds to Internet gambling sites, reports the Daily Mail
The London-based owner of New Football Pools, Sportech, has issued a trading update that indicates the company is on track to meet market expectations for the full year 2008 after positive trading throughout the last half.
Latest figures from the innovative online payments system Ukash reveal that its pre-paid UkashOut card solution has recorded triple-digit transaction growth since August 2009 – an impressive feat over a six month timespan.
Washington state, which arguably has the most aggressive anti-online gambling laws of any US state, with provisions to punish online gamblers with the same severity as child molesters, is now working on additional penalties for underage gamblers, according to an Associated Press report.
President Obama’s nominee for the important national law enforcement post of Attorney General, Eric Holder has been accepted by the Senate Judiciary Committee by 75 votes to 21, making his appointment as the first African-American AG a virtual certainty. His nomination apparently achieved strong bi-partisan support Monday.
Internet gambling is proving to be a profitable business activity for the publicly-listed Philippines online gambling operator PhilWeb Corporation, which last week announced consolidated net income up by an impressive 29 percent through 2008.
Betfair Australia’s feisty CEO, Andrew Twaits responded to recent criticism of online gambling sign up bonuses with a challenge of his own this week – the government should make it compulsory to do more in the responsible gambling milieu by requiring operators to offer gamblers a facility to pre-set their spending limits.