Gamblers in the Saskatchewan province in Canada may have to swipe a personalised card before they can play a video lottery terminal at land locations in the future, reports CBC News.
The Latvian i-gaming software provider CTXM has unveiled an extended GamingOS product compatible with most popular social network service web-sites, expanding opportunities for more gaming applications in this popular activity.
GamCare, the UK’s problem gambling support organisation, has appointed former Head of Gambling at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, Andy McLellan as its new Chief Executive Officer. McLellan commences his new role on February 1st and replaces Geoffrey Godbold, who has been CEO since February 2006.
The failed attempt by the state of Kentucky to seize and confiscate 141 international domain names looks set to stay in the headlines. Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear’s staff lodged an appeal this week against the successful iMEGA and IGC appeal which overturned a lower court’s order supporting the Governor’s unprecedented action .
Top online gambling casino 32Red.com has become the first tenant on GEM Island, a 3-D interactive leisure, gaming and betting portal founded by entrepreneur Mark Campbell.
Newly inaugurated US President Barak Obama and his team have hit the ground running following Tuesday’s festivities in Washington, with an order to all federal agencies and departments to stop any pending regulations until they can be reviewed by incoming staff, halting last-minute Bush orders in their tracks, reports the Reuters news agency.
The owner of the Betfred bookie empire, Fred Done, has shared his vision of the group’s future with the Manchester Evening News following the sale earlier this week of his Netherlands Antilles-registered online casino operation Betfred NV for GBP 27.2 million to an undisclosed buyer .
Casino Affiliate Programs.com (“CAP”), which claims to be the world’s largest and longest-running affiliate marketing directory for the online gaming industry, has announced the launch of MyCAP – the first social networking website to be dedicated exclusively to i-gaming affiliate marketers.
Changes to German law this (January) month make such a project possible, and it is believed that the combined state lotteries are looking at an October 2009 launch.
The player-influential online gambling information and social networking portal Casinomeister handed out its independent annual awards to the industry this week, naming 32Red Casino the top venue for non-US players for the sixth straight year. The UK-based Club World Group was named as best US-friendly online casino.
The UK Gambling Commission and the Independent Bookmakers Association, which represents owners of some 700 betting shops, look set to clash in a dispute over the level of licensing fees.
In a shock reprise of a Scandinavian move to tax online gamblers some time back, the Dutch taxman has reportedly been approaching poker players resident in Holland who thought they enjoyed Internet anonymity, inviting them to complete tax returns, and providing them with details of Dutch tax law.
Online gambling software provider Playtech’s live dealer online product has been so successful with Asian gamblers that it intends to target European punters with the product soon.
With the controversy over affiliate commercial relationships and no-slow payments to affiliates still swirling around both affiliate management consultants Affiliate Media Inc. and Effective Media Group, the online poker room at the centre of the controversy, CardSpike.com, issued a statement this week:
The German woman who resorted to Internet lottery tactics when she had difficulty getting a fair price for her home in Austria has announced the successful conclusion of her project and the winner.
More detail has emerged on the ruling handed down late Tuesday by the Kentucky Court of Appeals which overturned a decision by a lower court to seize and possibly confiscate 141 online gambling domains belonging to owners throughout the world .
The business section of the Isle of Man Today newspaper reported this week that Internet gambling is the fastest growing sector of the Manx economy, bucking the economic slowdown trend with the prospect of new businesses and new jobs being created on the island over the next few years.
Dale Johnson, the chairman of the board of directors at Neovia Financial plc (formerly Neteller) has welcomed two new non-executive directors to the board in the persons of experienced businessmen John Bateson (45) and Jonathan Comerford (36).
The UK-based Club World Group has announced the launch of its newest property, Aladdins Gold Casino.
The Malta and London-based sportsbook, casino and poker room website Bet Click.com scored a coup this week by signing up the top Italian football club Juventus as its online betting partner.
Three Kentucky Court of Appeals judges added to the US presidential inauguration celebrations Tuesday by returning a positive verdict for the freedom of the Internet in an appeal against the seizure of international domain names by a local county court judge . In a late afternoon announcement, the judges ruled that the commonwealth of Kentucky …
Kentucky racecourse owner Churchill Downs is to fully exploit its privileged position vis-a-vis online gambling with expansion projects led by racetrack president Steven P. Sexton.
The oratory skills of incoming U.S. president Barak Obama (and his top speechwriter Jon Favreau) are at the centre of some betting action offered by Irish online bookie Paddy Power this week as the presidential inauguration ceremony takes place.
Since its launch last summer, players at the relatively new 3D online casino WinADay.com have been building up a progressive jackpot through their slots action, and this week saw the first big winner at the online gambling venue.