Gambling News

The Gauteng Gambling Board’s claim that online gambling is illegal in South Africa following a judgment in the North Gauteng High Court last week continues to generate discussion and argument in the country. Read on »

The finance minister for the Prince Edward Island region in Canada says the government is considering joining the Atlantic Lottery Corporation’s initiative to bring online gambling to its residents. Read on »

Predictions earlier this year by OPAP chief exec Ioannis Spanoudakis that the Greek government would regulate online gambling appear to have been right on the money, according to a MarketWatch report this week. Read on »

Despite opposition from the Green Party, a Tasmanian government proposal to give online betting giant Betfair a A$6 million tax break has been passed in the Lower House, thanks to support from the official Opposition Liberal Party. Read on »

A Congressional bill that could raise billions of dollars in state and federal revenues through the taxation of a legalised online gambling environment in the United States remains stuck in committee, but author Representative Jim McDermott is pushing hard to get it marked up in time to get it to the House floor in this Congressional session. Read on »

A former insurance agent in New Jersey has been indicted for allegedly defrauding nine clients out of more than $1.9 million to feed his online gambling habit, reports the IFA Web News Read on »

Rival Gaming’s latest online slot is appearing on licensee sites this week, titled Doo-Wop-Daddy-O. Read on »

The growing use of pressure on Internet Service Providers to block online gambling sites in Europe has been noted by the European Digital Rights group in an article at: http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number8.16/gambling-websites-blocked-isp-europe. Read on »

The Reno Gazette created a ripple of headlines across the media this week with an article on the internet gambling position of influential Nevada politician and US Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Read on »

Online gambling software provider Playtech plc has announced strong first half 2010 results for the six months ended 30 June 2010. Read on »

The Betfair online casino software deal with Playtech will come to fruition at the end of August with the launch of the latter’s new Flash-based product, the two companies announced this week. Read on »

Server Based Gaming specialist Inspired Gaming has announced that it has met all Italian market VLT requirements set by regulator L’Amministrazione autonoma dei monopoli di Stato (AAMS). The firm claims that it is only the third company to achieve this standard, which enables it to deploy its Open VLT platform in the new Italian market Read on »

The operator of the Piggs Peak online casino in Swaziland, Casino Enterprises, has reacted to yesterday’s judicial ruling that in the online environment gambling takes place at the physical interaction point. Read on »

The founder of Casino Affiliate Programs and a top affiliate marketer, Lou Fabiano (47) has died in a Florida Intensive Care Unit only days before his birthday. Read on »

A player in the Atlantic Lottery Lotto Max missed out on a Cdn$30 million win last week by declining to purchase an incorrectly issued ticket in a convenience store. Read on »