GBI Racing, a joint-venture between Racecourse Media Group and At The Races that provides live, multi-camera coverage from 60 UK racecourses and 26 Irish tracks, has launched in Russia and CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States) following a deal between GBI Racing, Marathon and ICS. The GBI Racing TV channel, which broadcasts British and Irish racing …
Bwin.Party continued to invest in buying up its own shares for cancellation this week, announcing November 2 that it had purchased another 300,000 shares at an average price of 124.10 pence per share. Under the current buy-back authority granted by the company’s shareholders on 7 June 2012, Bwin.Party has purchased a total of 4,885,066 shares …
Following an inspection of Atlantic City casino properties carried out by Nevada gaming enforcement director David Rebuck, Governor Chris Christie has lifted a closure order on all twelve casino properties. A mandatory evacuation order issued to city residents was removed as casinos were permitted to re-open in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy. “The director has …
The North Dakota Office of the Attorney General (NDOAG) has issued a formal request for information (RIF) relating to the conversion and update of the North Dakota Lottery‘s online gaming system. The NDOAG is seeking, on expiration of its current contract on March 24, 2014, to find the best value and most responsive proposal relating …
Churchill Downs Inc.’s newest online gambling brand Luckity.com went live this week. The offering, which takes advantage of carve-outs in US federal law that permit interstate gambling on horse races, has launched with twenty cash games, draw games, jackpots, quick picks and other betting products targeted at lottery and slot playing punters. “We have a …
WMS Industries Inc. reported on its first quarter results for its 2013 fiscal period delivering a fiscal first quarter record in its product sales gross margin. The firm said success in the growth of its interactive products and services were attributed to the successful July 2012 launch of its Jackpot Party® Social Casino on Facebook®, …
Spain’s much-anticipated El Gordo Lottery (Lotería de Navidad) is gearing up to kick off its annual ticket sales and is apparently available through an online offering to punters outside of Spain. Dubbed “the world’s richest lottery game”, El Gordo fever sweeps across Spain this time of the year with only 2 percent of all Spaniards …
Latest third quarter stats released by French gambling authority ARJEL show a decline in online cash poker games, modest growth in the horse race betting market and an increase in sportsbetting attributed to wagering on the London 2012 Olympics. Total revenues from online gaming including sportsbetting, horseracing and online poker, yielded Euro 158 million, a …
Players have been posting about the new and much-anticipated Wild Rockets video slot from developer Net Entertainment for the past few weeks, and they will now be able to sample the game for themselves following its official release Thursday. Wild Rockets is the first of Net Entertainment’s online video slots to offer 720 winning ways …
A Norwegian player has landed a massive Euro 7.3 million jackpot playing Net Entertainment’s Hall Of Gods video slot on the Betsson.com online gambling website. The forty-something man was playing online on Tuesday 23rd October when he hit the big jackpot – the second multi-million Euro bonanza to be paid out on the Hall of …
Atlantic City’s 12 waterfront casinos survived the Sandy Superstorm largely unscathed, and could open almost immediately, but the Atlantic City gambling regulators will decide when they can do so, reports the Associated Press news agency. Regulators plan to visit each operation to assess mainly safety and local infrastructure damage and requirements in the wake of …
Casinos on the island of Macau off the Chinese coast generated the strongest revenues so far this year in October, up 3.2 percent to 27.7 billion patacas ($3.5 billion), according to numbers from the Macau Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau released Thursday. The percentage rise was 1.5 percent higher than analysts had predicted for the …
Jochen Dickinger (37) will step down as co-chief executive officer of the company he co-founded with Franz Ömer thirteen years ago, for “personal and private reasons”, a statement from the BetClic Everest Group subsidiary Bet-At-Home said. Michael Quatember (40) has been appointed as Dickinger’s successor effective November 1, 2012. Quatember has been with the company …
WrB Europe will bring together political figures driving the EU iGaming Agenda, European regulators and other key figures in the gambling industry at the first high-level summit following the EU Commission’s publication of the action plan for iGaming regulation. Topics will tackle issues highlighted in Commissioner for the Internal Market and Services, Michel Barnier’s speech …
Unibet Group Plc delivered its interim statement for its quarter three and year-to-date fiscal period ending September 2012, this week. The company showed a decrease in gross winnings and profit over the quarter which its attributes to the late start of European football seasons as well as currency exchange translations. The firm’s one-off payment to …
The newly formed interactive division of Scientific Games Corporation, SG Gaming has announced a further two appointments to supports its interactive business growth. Gareth Taylor has been named Client Services Manager and will be responsible for managing and building key customer relationships within the interactive business. Taylor spent four years as Head of Account Management …
B3W Group white label customers will expand their selection of casino games with the addition of top titles from Sheriff Gaming and NextGen as well as branded content from Cryptologic. B3W Group Strategy Director Aj Thompson said: “The partnership with NYX was an obvious choice with a single integration offering us abundant quality new product …
Arizona’s fierce opposition to most things gambling does not make the state a healthy place for cyber-cafe gambling operators, but it still appears to attract those with an appetite for risk. This week one such operator found out just how much of a gamble business in Glendale can be when police swooped on the Jackpot …
The Montreal-based Caesars Interactive Entertainment has chosen Optimal Payments, the Isle of Man-based parent group of payment processing brands like Neteller, Netcard and Netbanx, as its partner for payment processing and anti-fraud services when online poker legalisation comes to fruition in Nevada. CIE is among around 40 companies that have applied for licensing in Nevada, …
Starting operations fifteen months ago with just three founders on board, the London-based social casino games start-up Plumbee now boasts 35 employees and is looking for more, according to a press statement issued Tuesday. Six months ago the company launched its first big game, Mirrorball Slots and hasn’t looked back since, with revenues soaring into …
Police in Peabody, Massachusetts report that 25 computers allegedly used for illegal online gambling were seized in a police raid on the Cyber Palace Cafe this week, and are the subject of a forensic inspection. The raid followed extensive multi-agency undercover investigations which were started shortly after the business opened, a police spokesman revealed. No …
The new Dutch ruling coalition comprising the Liberal Party (Volkspartij voor en Democratie, VVD) and the Labor Party (Partij van de Arbeid, PvdA) have laid out plans to modernise gambling policies in the Netherlands along with reaching agreement on the conditional sale of the state-owned Holland Casino. A gaming tax on land-based lottery and online …
Swedish online gambling group Betsson is taking a keen interest in developments in China, according to comments made by chief executive Magnus Silfverberg at a press conference this week. “Currently there are almost no revenues from China and we do not expect significant revenues over the next year, but in the longer term it is …
Creating shockwaves through the online gambling software development industry this week is the case of Extension Software Inc, an Arizona company whose owners have been arrested and charged by officials under orders from the District Attorney for Manhattan, Cyrus R. Vance, Jr. In a press statement announcing the indictment of Robert Stuart (53), Susanne Stuart …