Workaholics at the Milan stock exchange still at their desks after closing hours Wednesday evening were more than a little surprised to find that their building had become a giant billboard for online gambling group Paddy Power’s latest ‘cheeky’ publicity stunt. The gambling company projected giant images that included a slot machine onto the building …
Gaming developer Net Entertainment has released “Thief” a five-reel, 25-bet line video slot showcasing its usual high quality graphic and feature-rich developments. The setting of Thief changes throughout the entire game, taking players from the rainy street of the main setting to the upper levels of a hallway and a vault found in the Free …
Sportech-owned British gaming brand Vernons latest commercials, for both their online casino and bingo brands, debuted this week across ITV1 and Channel 5. Vernons online casino ad features a futuristic townscape with famous gaming icons as it highlights its blackjack, roulette and video poker games while Stan the Pug Dog is the star of the …
Tabcorp-backed Australian bookmaker LuxBet is set to launch a social betting app in partnership with social sportsbetting network Favourit. The partnership will allow Luxbet customers to compete and copy expert punters on the Favourit platform as well as tapping the crowd’s knowledge on outcomes of popular sports events. Favourit.com, launched mid 2012, sways away from …
Game developer High 5 Games (H5G) claims its social casino offering, launched in September 2012, is the fastest growing virtual casino on Facebook surpassing one million active users last week. High 5 Casino, currently featuring over thirty real casino games, reported it had attracted 350 000 daily active users (DAU) and a 34 percent “sticky …
Amid the broiling shareholder issues going down at International Game Technology (IGT), the firm reported strong first quarter results in an industry update this week. Key performance highlights include: – Total revenues increased 19 percent to $530 million – North America product sales revenue increased 54 percent – GAAP earnings per share from continuing operations …
Well-respected online gaming firm 32Red Plc has delivered its third consecutive reporting period of record total annual revenues and a strong increase in new players. Key performance indicators for the 2012 fiscal period include: – Total revenue up 28 percent to GBP 32.1 million in 2012 – Casino revenue of GBP 28.7 million (2011: GBP …
Ahead of German Federal State Schleswig-Holstein‘s Parliamentary sitting tomorrow in which members are expected to vote on the repeal of the State’s recently passed Gambling Act and its proposed return to the German State Treaty on Gaming, the Ministry of Interior has issued a further seven online casino licenses. Newest recipients comprise Victor Chandler, PlayCherry …
The Manitoba government is launching PlayNow.com in an attempt to take advantage of the popularity of online gaming. The site, first announced in April 2012, is being operated in partnership with British Columbia, which has been operating its own online casino for nearly three years. The games will be open to Manitobans only, although some …
Tipp24 SE has made two appointments to its executive board naming Andreas Keil as chief financial officer and Dr Hans Cornehl as Executive Board Chairman. Keil (49) spent five years as CFO of H&R AG, a specialty chemical company, before spending the past few months as a freelance consultant for business and financial matters. Prior …
Digital sports media firm PERFORM has inked a deal with Sky Deutschland for the distribution of selected content from Sky’s sports channels in Austria and Germany across PERFORM’s ePlayer sports broadcast platform. Advertising across the new channels on ePlayer will be sold by mediasports, PERFORM’s ad sales business in Germany. Manuel Lopez, managing director, PERFORM …
Casinos Austria-owned Win2Day.be has gone live in Belgium using systems developer and supplier Omega Gaming’s Core system for its Grand Casino Brussels at Viage-associated multi-channel online gaming offering. Emmerich Hager, co-chief executive officer for Win2Day.be said, “Omega Gaming has managed the integration of the best-of-breed products we offer our players as well as ensuring consistent …
Jack Media, a digital acquisition agency that boasts many of online gambling’s major companies among its clients, has signed a partnership agreement with Direct Response Television (DRTV) agency, MC&C. MC&C is currently the largest buyer of DRTV airtime in the UK and together with the company’s experience and bespoke software, the relationship will enable Jack …
Massachusetts state senator Jennifer L. Flanagan has moved forward the state’s plans to expand lottery gambling activities online by filing legislation seeking the state Legislature’s approval for the initiative, announced some months ago by state treasurer Steven Grossman. Grossman said this week that if the legislation is approved, the state Lottery Commission, which he oversees …
The online gambling-pro action group IMEGA has issued a statement commenting on yesterday’s news that the US Department of Justice has decided to throw in its lot with the national sports leagues fighting New Jersey’s law legalising intrastate sports betting. The group’s chief, Joe Brennan, opines in the statement that the involvement of the US …
New Jersey governor Chris Christie has become adept at keeping everyone guessing regarding his intentions on the intrastate legalisation of online gambling, approved strongly by both the state Assembly and Senate last year. Despite vetoing an earlier and overwhelmingly backed bill from the legislature two years back , he has since made more encouraging and …
The coup scored by UK lottery operator Camelot in securing the management contract for the Pennsylvanian State Lottery could entail more red tape than was first envisioned, according to reports out of the state this week. Five Republican politicians, led by Senate President Joe Scarnati and Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi have voiced concerns in a …
Mississippi Representative Bobby Moak is not a man to give up easily, it appears. Undaunted by his failure to push through an intrastate online gambling legalisation bill last year , he has presented HB254 “The Mississippi Lawful Internet Gaming Act of 2013” to the state legislature. There are few differences apparent in the new offering, …
The state of New Jersey’s year-old law allowing sports betting and defying the 1992 Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act faces a powerful new opponent this week as the US Department of Justice files its intention to join litigation launched by the national sports bodies opposing the New Jersey move. In a filing Tuesday, federal …
The trade association for most of the major land gambling groups in Nevada, the American Gaming Association, has updated its advertising guidelines for member companies, acknowledging the importance of social and digital marketing and urging caution against ads that may be construed as targeting the under aged, and those that suggest that success and popularity …
Italian operators will be hoping that the pundits are right when they say that the advent of online slots action in the dedicated Italian market should provide a much needed fillip to a declining market. 2012 was not a good one for the Italian online gambling industry, with AAMS numbers showing a meagre 1.9 percent …
Live dealer gambling provider Evolution Gaming has started the new year with a notable achievement; the Riga-based company has signed up its one hundredth live dealer casino client, arguably making it the biggest supplier in a niche sector that is attracting increasing interest from online operators. Evolution says the last year has been one of …
Los Angeles-based CAMS LLC (Central Account Management Systems) has wasted little time since its announcement earlier this month that it was to supply a range of compliance, identification and geo-location services to Fertitta Interactive’s Nevada licensed Ultimate Gaming company. Mid-January Ultimate announced that it had engaged CAMS, which qualified for a Nevada online poker supplier’s …
The Malta-licensed online casino VeraJohn.com has augmented its online gambling offering by adding live dealer action supplied through Bodog Gaming. Press material from Bodog Gaming reveals that the new live dealer service features baccarat, sic-bo and Dragon Tiger and sits alongside VeraJohn’s existing range of table games and slots. Will Hu, managing director for Bodog …