The French online and land gambling group Pari Mutuel Urbain (PMU) is in a strong position for turnover to top Euro 10 billion by the end of the year based on its latest trading update, covering the nine months ended September 30 2011. The results released this week show that online gambling is playing an …
Online and land gambling group William Hill plc has become the first customer to renew a long-term contract with Amalgamated Racing Ltd, owner of television channel Turf TV. The early renewal of the long-term contract will allow William Hill to provide Turf TV’s exclusive ‘through-the-card’ live coverage of every horse race meeting from 31 of …
Online betting group Betfair has appointed the Karmarama digital advertising agency to handle customer acquisition marketing after a successful pitch. Karmarama will work on social media, mobile, product development and online creative, said Ben Carter, head of Betfair’s online acquisition department. Campaign Live reports that Big Al’s Creative Emporium was appointed to the Betfair account …
European member states should be free to maintain their own rules on online gambling, but should also step up EU-wide cooperation to counter the black market and protect children and vulnerable consumers, say Internal Market Committee MEPs in a resolution adopted Thursday and communicated by the EU Parliament communications division. A statement from the Committee: …
More information is now to hand on the “free-to-play” virtual casino offering launched this week by Aristocrat for US operators. In a further statement issued Thursday by the company, it identifies UK-based GameAccount Network as its partner, disclosing: “Aristocrat’s online gaming platform for the U.S. market has been developed through an exclusive relationship with GameAccount …
The growing determination by US states to curtail the activities of internet cafes offering their clients “sweepstakes” or “phone card” type gambling action does not appear to have fazed the Georgia-based software company iBoss, which was this week touting its “all-in-one sweepstakes café management system.” Branded “Internet Back Office Sweepstakes System”, the package caters to …
I-gaming hub Player Verify.com has announced the availability of a new and effective online self-exclusion tool for gamblers concerned about their wagering behaviour. Company manager Mark Dalton says the tool is a solution to a problem that has challenged operators for years, and that it is clean and simple to use, both for gamblers wishing …
Online casino operator 32Red has introduced new bingo chat games, entertaining players between scheduled bingo rounds, and giving them the chance to win bonus bingo money by typing correct words into an appropriate chat dialogue box, but only when the virtual bingo host announces the start of a new bingo chat game. Gamers must keep …
Casino Enterprises, the owners of the Swaziland-based online casinos Piggs Peak and Volcanic Gold, has delivered a strong denial to employee allegations that workers facing retrenchment were offered poor severance packages. Managing director Howard Berchowitz told the Swaziland Observer newspaper that allegations that he forced his staff to take relatively low retrenchment packages and that …
The Global Gaming Expo currently running in Las Vegas continues to provide a stream of industry-relevant stories as top executives in the business talk about their views and projects. On Wednesday MGM Resorts chief exec, Jim Murren, took centre stage with his disclosure that his company is moving into the internet social gaming sector soon …
Sky Betting & Gaming, the online betting and gaming arm of the UK pay-TV broadcaster BSkyB, has selected Net Entertainment to supply gaming content to its online casino site Skyvegas.com. The agreement boosts Sky Betting and Gaming’s existing online games portfolio and provides Skyvegas.com with a range of quality and popular online casino games. John …
The international online betting group Sportingbet plc has posted its results for the fiscal year ended July 31, reporting EBITDA up by 11 percent to GBP 51.4 million pounds ($79 million). Key highlights in the company’s year included: *Discussions are continuing with Ladbrokes regarding a possible offer for the entire issued share capital of the …
A Lithonia, Georgia, woman is $25 million richer this week, and it’s all down to the freakish good luck of a store clerk’s screw-up. The UPI news agency reports that Kathy Scruggs (44) of Lithonia, claimed her prize Monday at Georgia Lottery headquarters. She revealed that her massive win was initially generated by a mistake; …
The Oregon Lottery is in the final working stages on a new website that offers a chance to win cash prizes through the Internet — a first for the state and part of a growing national trend toward more online gambling. Branded ORcade, the site will allow people to register their losing “Scratch-its” lottery tickets …
Earlier this year the state Legislature delayed debate on the passage of an internet gambling legalisation bill to 2012, but interest remains high in the project. A new study conducted by the University of Northern Iowa has shown that regardless of whether the Iowa Legislature authorises Internet poker in the 2012 session, significant numbers of …
Malta-licenced online gaming software provider World Match Ltd (WM) has released its first online multi-line slot with 3D graphics titled “Maximum”. “Maximum” takes on the ancient world of the Roman gladiators featuring a Bonus Game, Free Spins and Wilds. The bonus game features a target-shooting gladiator using six different weapons for six launches to accumulate …
Washington’s D.C. Lottery has rescheduled public consultation meetings in each of the city’s eight wards to give the public a platform to voice their concerns and opinions on the introduction of internet gambling. Buddy Roogow, Executive Director of D.C. Lottery and Charitable Games Board said in a statement: “I look forward to kicking off the …
Gaming solutions provider Aristocrat has secured a systems contract with the soon-to-be-opened Maryland Live! land casino, which is to include a new online play-for-fun gaming option. Aristocrat has also signed up tribal operator Island Resort and Casino for a similarly ‘free-to-play’ virtual casino, scheduled for launch in the second quarter of 2012. Maryland Live!, powered …
Sporting Solutions, the B2B in-play trading and pricing division of the Sporting Index Group, has announced that Blue Square and 888sport are the latest sportsbook brands to join its fast-growing service. Both Blue Square and 888sport will be taking in-play prices across a number of sports, including American football, baseball, basketball, ice hockey, rugby union …
Land casino revenue in Macau rose 39 percent to 21.2 billion patacas in September (September 2010: 15.3 billion), according to data published on the website of the city’s Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau this week. Gambling revenue for the Chinese city’s casino operators reached 194.4 billion patacas (2010: 133.2 million) in the first nine months …
Casino Enterprises, the owner of the Swaziland-based Piggs Peak and other online casinos, has told employees that the operation is to close at the end of November, according to reports today in the newspaper Swazi Observer. Employees told the newspaper that they had received email notifications, which were made available for inspection, and that up …
One of the top US suppliers of gambling games and equipment, Bally Technologies has used the G2E conference and expo currently taking place in Las Vegas as the launchpad for a new business division – Bally Interactive. Clearly spurred on by the growing likelihood that legalised online gambling will be achieved in the United States, …
Spokesmen for Sportnco, the consolidated B2B sportsbook operation owned by France-Pari confirmed at EiG Milan that the company was on track with its ambitious plans to expand further into Europe through nations that are currently shaping up as regulated jurisdictions like Denmark, Germany, Spain, Belgium and Greece. Earlier this year, France-Pari chief exec, Herve Schlosser, …
The first of the special panel discussions devoted to online gambling at this year’s G2E expo and conference in Las Vegas took place Monday, examining the need for more political education on internet gambling, the benefits of regulation, excluding criminal influences, and fair taxation as industry execs got to grips with the impending reality of …