Gambling News

Addressing shareholders at Wednesday’s Playtech plc annual general meeting, chairman of the board Roger Withers said that he was pleased to report another year of [...]

Bwin.Party digital entertainment plc released its Q1-2012 numbers Wednesday, highlighting: • Total revenue up 1 percent to Euro 215.9 million (Q1-2011: Euro 214 million) with [...]

The Swedish online gambling software and games developer Net Entertainment has inked an agreement with Irish independent online bookmaker Boylesports for the supply of a [...]

Purple Lounge online casino and poker players and Media Corp shareholders are becoming increasingly restive at the lack of real communication from parent group Media [...]

Everest Gaming, part of the French Everest Betclic online gambling group, has announced the launch of new, third-party games for its internet casino brands Everest [...]

Industry observers confused by the apparent disconnect between polls on how New Jersey residents feel about legalised online gambling now have a third option to [...]

India could be missing out on as much as $1.5 billion in lost tax revenue by not regulating online gambling, the Times of India reports [...]

The US state of Illinois is back in the race for internet gambling legalisation following the introduction Tuesday by Senate President John Cullerton of a [...]

Montreal-based Amaya Gaming Group has taken a breather from its Cryptologic acquisition this week to launch its latest online slot, Aladdin’s Legacy. The first of [...]

Q1-2012 results from the Spanish land and online gambling group Codere were disappointing for investors this week, showing a net loss over the quarter despite [...]

Kambi Sports Solutions, Unibet’s B2B provider of sports betting services, has signed a contract with Grupo Acrismatic, one of Spain’s top land casino groups, to [...]

The Danish Gambling Authority, which oversees online and land gambling activity in the Nordic country, has released its first quarterly report on the internet market, [...]

One of Italy’s major gambling groups, SNAI, has reported a 10 percent slide in its revenues for the first quarter of 2012 compared with the [...]

Bulgaria’s punitive online gambling tax regime may be in for a rethink, with sources indicating that on June 1st the tax rate will be halved. [...]

The LA Times carried an interesting article on political action committee and lobbying donations this week, focusing on attempts to influence and support the legalisation [...]

Answering a parliamentary request for information this week, Singapore Minister for Health Gan Kim Yong said that an estimated 1.4 percent of Singapore punters are [...]

Nevada’s Gaming Policy Advisory Committee, revitalised earlier this year by Governor Brian Sandoval as online poker legalisation moves progressed (see previous InfoPowa reports) met for [...]

The independent research organisation IBIS World has released its latest updated study of the general gambling industry in the United Kingdom, concluding that it is [...]

In the latest development in the Malaysian federal police’s fight against illegal online gambling, the specialised CyberSecurity and Multimedia Investigation Division of the Commercial Crimes [...]

The furore around the qualifications of Yahoo’s latest chief executive, Scott Thompson, is thought to be behind his departure from the company over the weekend [...]

Just weeks before the first Spanish online gambling licenses are due to be issued, the Spanish authorities have sprung an unpleasant and possibly game-changing surprise [...]

Playtech-owned online gaming solution supplier Game Technology Systems (GTS) entered into a multi-year game supply deal with the Stockholm-based game developer Quickspin this week. Online [...]

Online gaming firm Tipp24 anticipates a strong year ahead based on current results and its re-entry into the German market via subsidiary Tipp24 Deutschland GmbH [...]

Italian gaming giant Lottomatica Group reported a record first quarter 2012 driven by the Italian market, machine gaming and interactive games. Group Highlights include: -     [...]

Betclic Everest online subsidiary Bet-At-Home reported on its Q1-2012 results this week showing a significant increase in revenue but a decrease in income due to [...]

New Jersey state Senator Ray Lesniak has announced that the Senate version of his bill seeking to legalise intrastate online gambling controlled from Atlantic City [...]

Rank Group plc execs and their counterparts at Gala Coral have quickly reached agreement on the acquisition of the latter gambling group for GBP205 million, [...]

Ireland’s politicians are gearing up to pass a bill before the summer recess of parliament that will impose a tax of 1 percent of turnover [...]

Aussie researchers say it is not…and they have a better treatment for it. Academic researchers at the University of Sydney’s Gambling Treatment Clinic in Australia [...]

James Murren, chairman and chief executive officer of Las Vegas land gambling giant MGM Resorts International, reiterated his company’s interest in legalised online gambling this [...]