Brigid Callahan Harrison, is professor of political science and law at Montclair State University, came out in support of online gambling provided via Atlantic City land casinos in an op ed piece over the weekend in North Jersey.com. Commenting on the passage of Sen Ray Lesniak and Sen. Jim Whelan’s latest legalisation bill through the …
Among the many lottery stories littering America’s Mega Million media madness last week was the tale of a Flint, Michigan man who won himself $4,428,422 by mistake in the state lottery. Digital Spy reports that the anonymous man decided to purchase a Cash for Life lottery ticket after mistakenly putting a $20 bill into the …
International Game Technology has wasted little time putting its Double Down Interactive acquisition to work, last week launching its version of the popular American Idol social gaming slot, within Double Down’s casino on Facebook, which ranks in the top 25 by drawing 5.4 million gamers a month. The company has disclosed that the American Idol …
Bigpoint, a worldwide provider of online games with more than 261 million registered users, and Mazooma, a popular Canadian internet payment processor signed an agreement this week that will enable Bigpoint’s players in the United States to use Mazooma’s instant online bank transfer service to purchase virtual credits. The partnership could pave the way for …
Online gambling has been bundled together with perceived harmful or socially unacceptable activities associated with adult sites, weapons and tobacco; it appears from the list of excluded businesses acceptable to the new UK Google Affiliate Network, which launched this week. The ambivalent approach of Google on this topic is confusing – in late 2008 the …
The furore over the failure of Worldspreads continued to build Saturday with a report in the UK newspaper The Telegraph detailing questionable conduct by the company’s directors. “Directors at collapsed spread-betting group WorldSpreads misled clients into placing bets on the company’s fortunes in order to inflate its share price, it has been claimed,” the newspaper …
With interest in the spread betting genre high in the wake of the recent failure of Worldspreads, the mainstream media have picked up on a second company in trouble, reporting that Marketspreads has been ordered to cease trading by the Irish Central Bank due to concern for clients’ accounts. The Bank said in a statement …
Wth news of the Malaysian football online gambling busts spreading across global mainstream media, further details of the police action have surfaced. It appears that the police tip-off was originally that the raided premises were involved in drug activity, but that the police nevertheless scored a major anti-crime victory due to the diverse criminal activity, …
GBI Racing, a joint venture launched in March 2010 by At The Races and Racing UK, has clinched agreements with Danish and Canadian companies that will enable it to extend its services to those countries. State gambling monopoly Danske Spil will partner with GBI in its Danish initiative, enabling the monopoly to broaden its offering …
The Canadian province of Manitoba is to benefit from the internet gambling experience of British Columbia following a joint announcement that the two provincial lotteries are to collaborate on the introduction of online gambling facilities for Manitoba residents. Quebec and British Columbia have well-established online gambling operations regulated by the provincial lotteries, whilst Ontario is …
In one of the biggest busts yet seen in anti-online gambling initiatives in Malaysia, police report that a football betting ring exploiting top British matches has been broken up with the arrest Thursday of 137 people, mostly originating from China and Taiwan. Police spokesman Abdul Rashid Abdul Wahab revealed that only five of those arrested …
EUCasino.dk clearly means to cut itself a substantial chunk of the Danish internet gambling market following the news that it has made a multi-media marketing investment of Euro 500,000 in the Nordic market. The company’s marketing campaign over the next three months will include print and television ads, backed by an intensive radio initiative, a …
Following an effective message board campaign which generated wide player interest Net Entertainment has released its latest slot Demolition Squad. The new game is a 5 reel, 4 row, 40 bet line action-packed video slot with a theme that portrays a demolition crew’s hard day at work using cartoon-style graphics with non-stop animations. Demolition Squad …
The latest New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement gambling stats released Wednesday reveal that Atlantic City’s 11 land casinos saw gross operating profits decline by 7.4 percent in 2011, to just under $495 million. The numbers show a marked decline from the 2010 figure of $534.6 million, with Associated Press noting that Atlantic City recently …
The provision of online gambling in Malaysia continued to prove a hazardous business this week with the arrest of 29 people – 22 of them punters – in police raids on seven premises. Ninety-six personal computer sets worth around RM250,000 were seized during the closely coordinated evening raids, which were carried out as part of …
The latest development in the 4-year-long Kentucky domain seizure issue has triggered a reaction from online gambling activist association the Interactive Media Entertainment and Gaming Association (IMEGA), which has submitted a Motion of Appeal against Judge Thomas Wingate’s March 8 domain seizure order. Judge Wingate, who propelled the issue into the international media with his …
Almost two years ago, in what was criticised as a high-handed and legally questionable initiative, Israeli police officers visited the country’s main Internet Service Providers and served them with a demand that they block a list of websites allegedly involved in illegal online gambling activity. This week that situation was addressed by a Tel Aviv …
Gerry Gionet, the driving force behind the Canadian-based Geobet Gambling Network for tribal casino operators, has added his voice to those of other Indian leaders urging tribal casino operators to get their ducks in a row prior to US online gambling legalization. Gionet warned Indian gambling enterprises that major Nevada gambling groups will be competing …
Net Entertainment has confirmed the major Mega Fortune progressive jackpot hit at Betsafe online casino reported here several days ago, advising that the winner was a Norwegian man in his mid-thirties who has been playing at the casino since 2007. The lucky winner has received payment totalling Euro 949,866.67 (around US$5.3 million), a new record …
Yet another online gambling company, Betonline, has recognised the vulnerability of a .com domain to US enforcement predators, from today switching to an .ag domain registration. The company’s affiliate management wing made the announcement to affiliate marketers his week, advising that the change is effective from April 4. Betonline’s decision to move away from a …
Our readers will recall the news earlier this year that Israeli social gaming start-up Dragonplay was to seek venture capital to progress its internet business aspirations, and we can now report that it has been successful, raising $14 million, according to a report in Digital Media Wire. The free-to-play social games developer has been successful …
The San Francisco-based social gaming giant Zynga is in talks with land casino company Wynn Resorts about a potential online gambling partnership, the New York Post reported late Tuesday night. Wynn has explored an entry into a legalised US online gambling market before. The newspaper notes that Zynga sees significant revenue potential in moving from …
Long time land gambling business partners Rock Gaming and Caesars Entertainment Corporation have inked an agreement that will see Rock buying into an undisclosed percentage of Caesars online enterprise, Caesars Interactive, for a consideration of $60.8 million. Newsnet5.com reports that an SEC filing by Rock shows that it has the option to up its shares …
New Jersey Senator Ray Lesniak’s latest bid to legalise online gambling in New Jersey received a major boost Tuesday when a Senate committee approved it by 11 votes to one abstention for a full Senate vote. The bill seeks to empower Atlantic City casinos take bets from gamblers in other states and even other countries, …