Concerned about possible federal deals on Internet gambling in World Trade Organisation negotiations, state legislators in Utah are pushing a resolution that urges Congress to ensure that states’ rights to make their own gambling laws are respected….and that means that online gambling will definitely be a non-starter in the state, reports the Salt Lake City …
A weakening U.S. economy and declining discretionary incomes are negatively impacting one source of government financing that had previously been widely regarded as recession-proof: lotteries, reports the Wall Street Journal this week.
Two Australian public figures – a charity campaigner and a politician – have lashed out at online betting exchange Betfair for advertising on Boxing Day on grounds that the material impinged on family interest subjects like cricket and were therefore dangerous to children and teenagers.
The incoming Obama Administration’s announcement that Eric Holder is to be appointed Attorney General of the United States may moderate expectations that the new president might take a more liberated approach to Internet gambling.
After months of anticipation, it looks as if the new year will at last see legalised online gambling in the Czech Republic.
Christmas arrived early for a New Zealand woman this year, or so she thought. The woman was playing a land slot in Dunedin, New Zealand when it briefly showed a $A 36 million jackot hit…but she then found the machine was faulty and she had really won only $A 420.
Achieving white listing status from the UK authorities that has enabled its licensees to advertise in the United Kingdom has proved to be a real advantage for the Caribbean island licensing jurisdiction of Antigua, reports local newspaper The Antigua Sun this week.
The giant search engine Google has claimed that its research has shown a rising popularity in Internet bingo across every age group and gender and is online poker’s most powerful rival yet.
Peak Entertainment, the well established parent company for SunPoker.com, Omni Casino and CSCasino.com, has announced that its move to the Playtech platform commenced December 19 is proceeding smoothly, and that existing players will continue to have access to its former Cryptologic software until January 15th 2009 to ensure a gradual changeover.
Gigamedia, the Taiwan-based parent of Everest Poker and Everest Gaming, has revealed that it has entered into a strategic partnership with the respected and well established Gibraltar-based land and online gambling company Victor Chandler International.
The online gambling affiliate marketer’s community website Casino Affiliate Programs.com has released details of its next conference, CAP Spring Break 2009, which it promises will be “…larger in scope and expectations than previous events.”
Online gamblers have another million dollar jackpot on offer following this week’s Real Time Gaming announcement that its Jackpot Pinatas progressive jackpot has moved over the million dollar level.
Reports from Redding, northern California tell of a local burglar who was not the sharpest knife in the drawer, having tried to gamble at two casinos using rare coins he had stolen in a burglary.
Two Vietnamese nationals, Nguyen Van Dinh and Nguyen Trieu Duc, both from Hanoi, have been arrested by officers of the Ministry of Public Security’s Criminal Police Department on allegations of organising gambling cruises between Vietnam and Cambodia.
Gibraltar-based online gambling group 888.com’s monthly member’s magazine “Eight” has been awarded “Most Effective Membership” publication at the 2008 APA Effectiveness Awards.
Gibraltar-based online gambling group 888.com’s monthly member’s magazine “Eight” has been awarded “Most Effective Membership” publication at the 2008 APA Effectiveness Awards.
Another significant step in the corporate development of online gambling software provider Net Entertainment has occurred with the Stockholm Stock Exchange listing committee approving the company for listing on the NASDAQ OMX Stockholm.
Mainly German reports over the weekend raise the alarming prospect that the Internet is under further assault – this time from German authorities.
The world’s largest Internet population – the Chinese – were deprived of access to the New York Times last Friday, according to the newspaper.
The long-running European Commission’s challenge to the benevolent corporate tax regime in Gibraltar has been resolved by a European Union court in favour of the tiny Mediterranean nation.
The respected Fitch Ratings agency in the United States has predicted that the gambling industry can expect a tough economic environment through to 2010, reports Business Wire.
The owners of the world famous land gambling brands Casino de Monte Carlo and Casino de Monaco, La Société des Bains de Mer et du cercle des étrangers à Monaco, has won a branding case against Australian online casino company Around Pacific, resulting in an order that the domain name Casino-Monaco-Gold.com be transferred to the …
In May this year Texas authorities raided a Corpus Christi amusement centre, starting a chain of events that ended with the arrest on illegal gambling charges of 14 executives employed by the Dallas-based Aces Wired Inc and the confiscation of 90 ‘gambling machines’ known as 8-liners, and some $175 000 in cash.
The ICEi exhibition scheduled for January 27 -29th in London received a bright endorsement from player protection and standards body eCOGRA this week, when Tex Rees, the Fair Gaming Advocate at that organisation saluted the companies committed to attending as among the “…most mature, accountable and responsible gathering of e-gaming exhibitors in the industry’s brief …