According to reports in The Telegraph newspaper over the weekend, the major rival gambling groups William Hill plc and Betfair plc are about to clash in the UK courts in a bid to get the latter’s customers to contribute to the Horse Racing Levy. The Horserace Betting Levy Board ruled last year that punters who …
Football-mad Vietnamese fans bet large amounts of money on the Euro 2012 football tourney currently nearing completion in Ukraine, a police spokesman revealed this week in announcing the successful break up of a major online gambling ring. In a series of police raids, the authorities arrested seven people, seizing six luxury cars, large amounts of …
Launching a slot themed on an event of major international interest – the US presidential elections – is a smart move announced by the online gambling information portal Online-Casinos.com this week. The slot game graphics feature several 2012 presidential candidates including Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Ron Paul and other Republican hopefuls. Titled “Red, White and …
The respected investment publication Seeking Alpha carried an interesting article over the weekend, examining developments in online gambling in the United States and how these might impact land casino operators. Authored by the Qineqt Team of investment professionals, which includes former hedge fund managers, traders and analysts at top tier firms and investment professionals up …
The Poker Players Alliance has rather cannily organised a “town hall” style poker and political feedback meeting this weekend at the Rio in Las Vegas, where most of poker’s great and the good, and thousands of pokerheads, are currently gathered for the World Series of Poker. The meeting, which is free and open to all …
An interesting article in the Vancouver Sun revealed that the British Columbia Lottery Corporation (BCLC) is looking into providing its PlayNow online betting system as a White Label product. The company is currently in negotiations with Manitoba Lotteries for the use of its PlayNow system which if effected would make Manitoba Lotteries BCLC’s first partnership. …
Malta-licenced developer World Match’s “Monkeys vs Sharks” game has been followed quickly by another release titled “Zen Blade”. The game is themed around the mysterious world of Ninja-warriors and the Japanese martial arts. It features free spins, Wilds and a bonus game where the player gets to spin a “Wheel of Destiny”. “The launch of …
Fortuna Entertainment Group’s Czech subsidiary Fortuna Loterie has entered into a cooperation agreement with E-Invest, who will buy a 10 percent stake in the firm, the proceeds of which will be used to speed up the roll-out of the distribution network and strengthen the management team. Fortuna Loterie operates the numerical games LOTO and SUPERLOTO …
The injunction imposed on Sportingbet Plc’s Spanish business on March 27, 2012 has been cancelled in full by the country’s Commercial Court No. 10. Sportingbet’s Spanish business at miapuesta.es began trading on June 5 following receipt of an egaming licence and the opening of the regulated market.
Perform Group said today (Friday) it had acquired a 51 percent stake in Turkish digital sports company Mackolik Internet Hizmetleri Ticaret A.S. (Mackolik) for a cash consideration of TRY 40.8 million (GBP 14.6 million). The consideration was based on an agreed ten times multiple calculation of the full year audited EBITDA results of the business …
NYX Interactive announced the opening of its Open Gaming System (OGSTM) to a wider audience this week. The product is a hosted casino games service that initially launched with over 75 games from the NextGen Gaming and Sheriff Gaming studios . Previously only clients using the company’s NYX Rapid Platform could utilise the product, however, …
Redbet Gaming Limited has appointed Alexis Wicén as acting Managing Director, Director for Redbet Gaming Ltd and Redbet Malta (hldg) Ltd as well as Key Official to the Lotteries and Gaming Authority (LGA). Wicén joined the Redbet Group in August 2008 and was appointed Chief Operations Officer in December 2011.
Daniel Eremian, the US online sports betting operator recently convicted late last year on illegal offshore gambling business charges has been sentenced to three years imprisonment. But the news media in Massachusetts appeared more interested in his critical comments about his brother-in-law U.S. Rep. John Tierney, made outside the court and alleging that the politician …
Online gambling group Betfair posted its full year results ending April 30 1012 on Friday, highlighting a 15 percent rise in underlying profits from its core businesses and reporting strong current trading helped by the European soccer championships in the Ukraine. Key financial developments included: * Core Betfair revenue growth of 10 percent in H2 …
Antigua and Barbuda prime minister Baldwin Spencer made all the right amicable noises in welcoming a new US ambassador to the Caribbean this week, but took the opportunity to again raise the long-running World Trade Organisation dispute over internet gambling discrimination and the continued lack of a satisfactory solution despite pro-Antigua rulings by the WTO. …
The Italian online gambling industry continued to underperform in May 2012, delivering gross gaming revenues of Euro 57.4 million – down 15 percent on the numbers for the previous (April) month, and well short of the peak in February 2012 of Euro 78.9 million. Breaking the numbers down, online bingo was a weak performer with …
In a historic move that makes Delaware the first US state to legalise online gambling in a general sense (as opposed to Nevada’s more focused online poker legalisation), Gov. Jack Markell signed bill HB333 into state law Thursday, one day after the Senate passed the bill and just days before the end of the legislative …
A live betting deal sealed late last year came to fruition just in time for the Wimbledon Tennis Championships last week when Globet, an international sports betting company, launched its new live betting product provided by Zukido. The LiveBet console features Basketball, Football, Ice Hockey, Volleyball and Tennis, with live scores and odds delivered direct …
European Commission head Michel Barnier’s address to the European Parliament Wednesday contained more than just the threat of action against illegal operators…there was a stark warning for non-compliant national regulatory regimes as well. Barnier served notice that the Commission will reactivate pending infringements and complaints against Member States whose gambling regulation is in violation of …
LADBROKES SHARES DIP 7 PERCENT ON POOR INTERNET GAMBLING RESULTS Gambling group warns that first half profits will fall drastically Citywire reported Thursday that shares in the UK’s second-biggest bookmaker, Ladbrokes, tumbled 7 percent after the company warned that first half profits from its internet business will fall to around half the level of a …
Microgaming settled the widespread rumours of a new Batman slot circulating over the last few weeks by launching The Dark Night game Thursday. Based on the legendary motion picture from Warner Bros. Pictures, “The Dark Knight” video slot promises the same action packed visual experience, with plenty of in-game features including an impressive 4 tier …
Net Entertainment’s MegaFortune progressive slot has coughed up its fourth major jackpot this year, making one Betsson online casino punter a very happy person. Unfortunately, there is little focus on the lucky player in the publicity blurb pumped out this week…the material reveals only that the player took home Euro 3.1 million. Earlier this year …
The European Commission, the enforcement arm of the European Union, is to publish an action plan later this year, detailing moves to stop unregulated internet gambling, the Bloomberg business news agency reports. The paper will include measures to clamp down “on the many illegal websites, often hosted in offshore havens,” that offer gambling services, Michel …
Industry anti-fraud company Iovation has recognised the growing importance of the mobile channel to online gambling operators with the publication of a free white paper offering tips on how to counter new and existing threats from the cyber-underworld. The document outlines the evolving mobile fraud landscape, along with the business and technical decisions that operators …