The latest entrant into the increasingly crowded social gaming sector is a Gibraltar-based Trophy Slots, which has just launched on Facebook its beta version bearing the same name. “Trophy Slots features some of the most popular slot machines from land based and online casinos and combines exclusive gameplay elements with a range of unique games,” …
An Aussie software company from Perth with an innovative game platform that enables the creation and monetisation of virtual casinos in the social gaming environment has made an impression in the run up to the GIGSE conference in San Francisco this week after featuring in the Launch Festival last month. Later this week Virtual Gaming …
The Swedish online gambling software provider Net Entertainment has posted its interim report for the period January to March 2012, noting the following highlights: * Eleven new customer agreements signed for mobile games * Revenues for the first quarter increased by 33.9 percent to SEK 127.5 (95.2) million, boosted by the recently regulated Italian market …
Giving the keynote address at this week’s Global iGaming Summit & Expo in San Francisco, US Congressman and Nevada Senator Mark Amodei applauded the strong and protective regulatory structure in force for the land gambling business, which has established a sound reputation, but warned execs that the industry needed to unite on the question of …
The primarily German-focused online gambling group GVC Holdings plc has posted its preliminary results for the year ended 31 December 2011, along with a trading update to 22 April 2012. Highlights of the report include: * Total revenues increased by 17 percent to Euro 64.3 million (2010: Euro 54.9 million), the fifth successive year of …
New Jersey, with its challenge to the federal Professional Amateur Sports Protection Act, has tended to dominate the news on the expansion of sports betting in the United States beyond a few favoured states, but this week California hit the headlines with its own bid. State Senator Rod Wright, who also has an online poker …
The primarily land gambling supply company International Game Technology’s Q2-2012 results presented this week give an interesting insight into the progress being made by the firm’s venture into internet and social gambling. The company reported that revenues increased 13 percent to $541 million in the second quarter, primarily due to increases in North America product …
The opening day of the Global iGaming Summit & Expo in San Francisco this week has illustrated the considerable enthusiasm in the wider gambling industry regarding real money internet gambling and the burgeoning social gaming sector, reports the publication Venture Beat. Attendance at the conference and expo almost doubled this year, no doubt due in …
It appears from an article in IOM Today this week that the Isle of Man licensed Golden Boys Bet.com, a finance pool betting platform offering players the opportunity to bet on the closing position of financial assets like indices, foreign exchange and commodities on various financial markets, is being re-launched. Originally launched in July 2010, …
Over the past several weeks, players have increasingly complained on internet gambling message boards that the payments from Media Corp’s online casino and poker venue Purple Lounge are excessively delayed, and communications with the operation have become very difficult. This week the Casinomeister site felt obliged to post a warning, advising players: “Purple Lounge is …
The Betfair online gambling group has appointed Craig Mucklow (38) as Director of Trading in charge of a Dublin-based trading team responsible for managing all of Betfair’s risk products, including the forthcoming next generation sports product. Mucklow joins Betfair from Ladbrokes where he was most recently Head of Sports Trading Product, managing a team of …
Most gamblers who take a punt on one of the many lotteries would imagine they were exceptionally lucky if they hit just one significant prize, but in the state of Virginia there’s a new multi-millionairess who claimed two winning million dollar tickets in the same draw. Virginia Fike won the lottery twice on the same …
The UK interactive television gambling group NetPlayTV has posted its preliminary results for the year ended 31 December 2011, showcasing better progress and the following financial highlights: * 12.4 percent increase in Group revenue to GBP 22.3 million (2010: GBP 19.8 million) * 18.6 percent rise in casino revenue to GBP 20.6 million (2010: GBP …
The Australian land gambling supplier Aristocrat boasts in a media statement this week that it is “…miles ahead of the rest of the industry, being the only gaming supplier to have a play-for-fun online solution integrated with a casino management system.” The statement details the company’s latest push into the internet gambling sector as a …
Online gambling software developer Playtech has launched its latest new online slot with a theme that will appeal especially to Canadians, well-known for their passionate love of ice hockey. The interactive element in the 5 reel, 15 pay-line game is strong, with punters choosing two teams, enabling players to benefit from left to right pays …
The online gambling group 888 Holdings plc has released a strong set of Q1-2012 results, with highlights that include: * Group revenue US$94 million (Q1 2011: US$75 million), an increase of 25 percent year-on-year and a 4 percent increase compared to the strong Q4 2011 * Revenue B2C US$83 million (Q1 2011: US$64 million), an …
The Belgian tax inspectorate ( (l’Inspection spéciale des impôts) is demanding millions in Euro in unpaid gambling taxes from Belgian media on television gambling games which involved the use of text message voting or premium rate numbers. The tax inspectorate has concluded that the chance-based games fall under Belgian gambling law and as such the …
Casual gaming developer PopCap Games has launched “MONOPOLY Party”, under licence from Hasbro, to the Lucky Gem Casino on Facebook. The launch of MONOPOLY Party is the first third party content launched on the social casino and joins well-known PopCap games Bejeweled, Bookworm, Chuzzle, Zuma and Peggle. Bart Barden, franchise business director at PopCap said: …
The digital gaming-focused venture capital fund NewGame Capital, formed by Cashcade co-founders Simon Collins and Patrick Southon and supported by Bwin.Party Digital Entertainment, has reportedly made its second investment in mobile games developer AlchemyBet. The fund set up towards the end of last year with an initial GBP 15 million investment from Bwin.Party and another …
Following Centrebet’s takeover last year by UK online gambling firm Sportingbet the company has embarked on a process that will streamline its IT infrastructure. The post-acquisition process will include the consolidation of Sportingbet and Centrebet’s call centres, wide area networks (WAN) along with the migration of Centrebet’s infrastructure to Sportingbet’s internal platform which is currently …
The New Zealand pokie debate continues with Prime Minister John Key dismissing worries that Auckland casino SkyCity’s permit to add up to five hundred more pokie machines will increase problem gambling. Conspiracy reports under which the casino is said to have received permission for the additional pokie machines in exchange for it building a national …
The UK-based interactive television gambling company NetPlay TV plc has renewed its relationship with the ITV network by signing a fresh two year broadcast agreement. The agreement will see Jackpot247.com broadcast live on ITV1 on a dedicated gaming slot four nights a week for two hours per night. The agreement further builds on Netplay’s strategy …
In a quiet weekend, an article in the Sunday edition of the Australian newspaper Courier-Mail livened up the online gambling news scene by reporting that erstwhile payment processor and alleged FBI informant Daniel Tzvetkoff had been spotted strolling about in New York with his family. The twenty-nine-year-old, formerly high-living Brisbane financial whiz was apparently unrestricted, …
Motherwell mid-fielder Steve Jennings (27), who was arrested on allegations of sport corruption along with nine other men back in October 2010 has been cleared of any wrongdoing following a police investigation, his legal representative, Nick Melville, told BBC Scotland Saturday. The police action was triggered by bookmaker reports of irregular betting patterns on Motherwell’s …