The British online and land gambling group William Hill plc has reported complete success in its rights issue offer to raise GBP 350 million.
A former mayor did the crime and is now about to serve the time in a UK case involving theft of almost GBP 40 000 which concluded this week.
The Australian Football League (AFL) has started lobbying government for an exemption or revision of current legislation that prohibits Australian betting operators from offering internet markets once a game has started.
The Australian Football League (AFL) has started lobbying government for an exemption or revision of current legislation that prohibits Australian betting operators from offering internet markets once a game has started.
Players Network is yet another US company taking advantage of exemptions in federal law that allow betting over the Internet on hrose races.
The Freeport in the Bahamas was the scene of some anti-gambling raids and arrests last week as local police moved on companies that they alleged were in breach of the Lottery and Gaming Act and in possession of slot machines, thus operating gambling activities under the guise of legitimate freeport businesses.
The UK Advertising Standards Authority this week lists iGlobal Media Marketing (a forerunner and subsidiary of the PartyGaming group) among its banned adverts following a review on a single complaint that the content was misleading and could not be substantiated.
The Canadian Internet gambling software developer Parlay Entertainment has teamed up with independent slot games innovator NextGen Gaming (Pty) Limited to widen the range of Flash games in its offering.
Bettorlogic, the form analysts firm backed by respected industry veterans Andrew Black and Nigel Payne, has announced the launch of two major new additions to its expanding product range.
Online gambling software and games developer Cryptologic Limited has released its latest game offerings, which include an interactive slot version of the famed video game shoot-em-up Call of Duty.
The latest game pack coming online this week at Microgaming-powered casinos includes four new slots games headed by an innovative game that combines popular features such as wilds, scatters, multipliers and free spins with a series of six different bonus games-within-the-game, each presenting the player with different rewards.
What appears to be an over-enthusiastic Bingo department staffer at online casino group Plex Gaming caused his employers embarrassment this week by rather clumsily attempting to hitch a free ride on the good reputation of the online gambling information portal Casinomeister.com.
The Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation is facing legal claims of Cdn$ 3.5 million from a problem slots gambler who alleges that he has lost hundreds of thousands of dollars due to an ineffective “self exclusion” system in the organisation’s responsible gambling program.
A legal request by an as yet unidentified German gambling group that it be granted an interim dispensation to accept bets as long as a lawsuit against state gambling restrictions is pending in a lower court has been rejected by the German Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe, reports Bloombergs news service.
Britain’s interactive television betting group NetPlayTV plc is to acquire the business assets of Two Way Gaming Ltd, the provider of the popular Challenge Jackpot gaming services, from parent Virgin Media Television for GBP 2 million in stock, the company announced this week.
The London listed online and land betting group Leisure and Gaming plc has signed a sponsorship agreement with the Italian football club Unione Sportiva Città di Palermo which will see the brand of L&G subsidiary Betshop Italia achieving a higher profile.
The London listed online and land betting group Leisure and Gaming plc has signed a sponsorship agreement with the Italian football club Unione Sportiva Città di Palermo which will see the brand of L&G subsidiary Betshop Italia achieving a higher profile.
The price of protectionism paid by German online gambling company Jaxx AG, was showcased again this week when the company announced financial results that included a consolidated loss of Euro 16.9 million, largely due to the implementation of the German State Treaty On Gaming.
Taiwan-based and US-listed GigaMedia Limited, which owns successful online gambling operations like Everest Gaming, is in talks with a number of interested parties in connection with a strategic merger or sale, reports MergerMarket.
The Australian media are speculating on the possibility that Intralot’s Aussie subsidiary may have its state licence pulled after estimates suggesting that its first year operational figures wll likely be shockingly lower than budgeted expectations.
Cantor Gaming, a mainly technology company that announced last year that it had ceased operating online casinos although it would continue to licence software, has applied for a slot route in Nevada, reports the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
PartyGaming plc delivered a disappointing quarterly result this week, revealing that the significant strengthening of the US dollar and competitive pressures in its core poker division were the primary factors behind a drop in quarterly revenues.
Shares in the London-listed online gambling group PartyGaming are expected to soar following the group’s announcement Tuesday that it has reached a settlement with the US Department of Justice, removing the threat of prosecution for pre-UIGEA activities.
A recent academic study of online gambling presented by the University of Lethbridge in Canada created acres of media coverage with its finding that Australian and New Zealand gamblers were the worst in the world.