iGaming Business, the organisers of this year’s newly branded Amsterdam Affiliate Conference (the old CAP Euro) have come up with a good crowd-puller – a keynote address by former MIT Blackjack Team member Dave Irvine at the affiliate get-together, which runs 1st-2nd May 2009.
Online gamblers have been anticipating the arrival of French land casino operator Lucien Barriere’s new online casino since the initial announcement in February this year, and now the waiting is over – LeCroupier.com went live this week.
Bwin subsidiary and online poker network provider Ongame Network Ltd has signed a partner agreement with Smart Gaming Group, as the latest addition to their poker network.
NEOVIA Financial plc (the e-cash processor formerly known as Neteller) has released its trading update for the fourth quarter and year ended 31 December 2008. In addition to the financials, the statement includes a notification that CEO Ron Martin is leaving “for family reasons” after four years at the helm.
Powered by new software provider on the block Wizard Gaming, the recently arrived All Star Slots.com online casino presents an attractive face to the online gambler…but its Terms and Conditions have pitfalls for the unwary.
GTECH Corporation, which owns online gambling software developer Boss Media and other Internet interests is getting into the lottery sector with a deal that literally rocks.
The Jackpot City online casino group continued its charity fundraising this week, offering players the chance to help others and at the same time win a share of a weekly $100 prize pool between the 4th of March and 6th of April 2009.
Experienced online gambling marketer and entrepreneur Alex Czajkowski and his team at eGaming 2.0 are not the superstitious type; they plan to launch their “revolutionary” new 3D online casino Buzzluck.com on Friday, March 13th 2009.
Bodog online gambling group founder Calvin Ayre, whom unconfirmed reports suggest is now involved in a new Asian gambling venture apparently has no need for his luxurious double-volume Vancouver apartment, which has gone on sale, reports the Vancouver Sun newspaper.
An elderly lottery addict called Chang, who lives in the southern Taiwan city of Kaohsiung has fallen prey to fraudulent lottery scams 11 times in two years, reports Earth Times.
The US recession and its consequences for consumer discretionary spending has continued to hammer land casino operations in Atlantic City.
Mangas Gaming’s major online gambling subsidiary Betclick.com has renewed its CasinoModule license from Net Entertainment for a further three years in an expression of confidence in the online casino turnkey system and its wide inventory of games.
An announcement by iGaming Business this week constitutes an important step in defusing some of the robust competitive activity and alleged predatory marketing practices in the affiliate conference space.
The affiliate marketing-oriented dispute over who has control of Casino Affiliate Programs surfaced again this week when competitor and chief exposer Gambling Portal Webmasters Association published seperate interviews with the two principle characters involved in the troubled companies, CEO Warren Jolly and isolated founder and President Lou Fabiano.
A new $200 million land casino in Shelbyville, Indiana has agreed to pull an advert featuring a faux President Obama “out of respect for the White House,” reports Fox News, MSNBC and The American Reporter this week.
Party Gaming plc may have started out as a primarily online poker destination, but the performance of this sector of its wider group activities was disappointing last year, judged by the 2008 full year financials released this week.
The Philippines, long perceived as an enlightened haven for online gambling and home to PAGCOR, the First Cagayuan licencing jurisdiction and a freeport, is the unlikely location for the latest attempt to ban Internet gambling.
The economic recession continues to weigh heavily on land gambling companies in Nevada, according to the latest official figures reported by Associated Press this week.
The British Columbia Lottery Corporation has nabbed at least eight lottery ticket retailers ripping off customers over the last two years, albeit for relatively small amounts, reports The Vancouver Sun this week. In one case, an employee pre-scratched more than 100 scratch-and-win tickets before putting them up for sale, but was caught and fired.
Spread betting firm IG Group has reported a 35 percent decline in share price, which it claims is the result of the extreme volatility in the markets.
Cheaters and bot operators beware – the Israeli software developer Cognisafe claims that its new Pitboss product provides online casinos and poker rooms with a potent new anti-collusion tool effective against online bots, online advisors and software cheats.
After extensive debate and over 400 amendments, European Parliamentarians voted to adopt an ‘own initiative report’ by Danish Socialist MEP Christel Schaldemose on Monday.
The giant Italian online gambling group Cogetech SpA has signed an agreement with UK firm GameAccount for the supply of skill games for its horse racing and sports betting website Mistertoto.it
Russia’s ban on land casinos in its main cities, effective July 1st this year, has presented operators with some tough decisions.