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The UK football club Aston Villa has announced that the UK land and online gambling division of the Malaysian leisure and hospitality group Genting is to be its shirt sponsor for the next two years. The partnership commences next (July) month, allying the club with arguably the UK’s largest operator of casinos. The Genting Casinos …
Ladbrokes, a major listed online and land gambling group in the UK, has made a preliminary takeover approach for rival Sportingbet, sending Sportingbet’s shares surging higher, reports the Reuters news agency. “Further to recent press speculation, the board of Sportingbet announces that it has received a highly preliminary approach from Ladbrokes plc, which may or …
Germany’s football league has added further pressure on the sixteen German lander (states) currently monopolising gambling, demanding a more open market. The league is threatening to charge betting companies for use of the Bundesliga fixture list, unless regional states open up the sports betting market to more competition, reports the Reuters news agency. The fixture …
The new online slot Frank Miller’s Sin City has been launched at Party Casino, offering 50 pay-lines across 5 reels, wild and 2 scatter symbols, free spins, and multipliers. The theme is based on the comic title of the same name, authored by comic legend Frank Miller. Sin City originally appeared in Dark Horse Presents: …
The European Gambling and Betting Association, a trade body that includes most of Europe’s major online gambling operators among its members, has taken a step toward exploding some of the myths surrounding online gambling that are too often used by adversaries of the international industry and uninformed politicians. The Association has devoted a page on …
Taking many industry observers by surprise, the smallest US state, Rhode Island, appeared to be leaning toward online gambling legalisation Tuesday night with revisions to a more general gambling bill that included the consideration of legalised online gambling….subject to the federal government taking the lead by legalising the pastime first. The bill was presented to …
Bulgaria’s revised draft online gambling regulatory legislation presented to the European Commission for approval in May this year has again been given the thumbs down, according to early reports in the local media. The controversial proposals, which many operators in both the land and online sectors have criticised as being discriminatory and unfair in nature, …
Online casino Castle Casino has expanded its live dealer offering with a new Spanish speaking version of its live roulette game, with croupiers and staff broadcasting totally in Spanish. The new Spanish version of the live roulette game is presented live between 7.30 pm and 4.00am GMT and will run alongside the current English speaking …
The UK government Department of Culture, Media and Sport is to appoint a Select Committee to review the gambling industry in general and the Gambling Act 2005 in particular. DCMS will be looking for contributions from interested parties including operators on a broad range of questions, such as how effective the Act has been in …
Lord Sharman of Redlynch, chairman of international insurance group Aviva, has been appointed as the new president of GamCare, the UK’s national responsible gambling charity. He will take up his responsibilities in September this year, a Gamcare spokesman revealed this week. “I am pleased to take on the mantle of my friend and predecessor as …
Finland’s state-owned lottery operator, Veikkaus intends expanding into Russia, China and the U.S. and has established a subsidiary with this international expansion in mind. The subsidiary will be operational as early as July 2011 and will be re-evaluated in 2013 as to its viability said Veikkaus vice president, Olli Sarekoski. The subsidiary will not seek …
The Financial Times reports that UK land and online gambling group Ladbrokes’ chief executive officer Richard Glynn is in the process of a re-organisation of the company’s group structure. The restructuring will see the company move away from the separate division approach of telephone, retail and e-gaming and will be re-structured to comprise three clear …
The Department of Information and Communications in Ho Chi Minh City has fined four online gaming providers for releasing games on the internet without the correct permissions reports a Vietnam News Source. The four companies FPT Online Joint Stock Company, Blue Sea Communication & Technology Company, King Software Joint Stock Company and Digital Solution Service …
U.S. Digital Gaming, Inc. (“USDG”) has formally announced the hiring of former FOX and Walt Disney Senior Executive Jon Richmond as its Chief Executive Officer. A company spokesman said Richmond will guide the company’s activities to deploy the most comprehensive, legally compliant, Internet gambling platform in the US. USDG believes the appointment is crucial at …
Isle of Man based QuickFire, powered by Microgaming, entered into a supply deal with CasinoRoom .com that will see its flash based casino product deployed on the established online casino site. QuickFire will provide the operator with content that includes its global progressive game network, Microgaming blockbuster slots like Thunderstruck, and licensed brands such as …
The US state of Louisiana, which has a reputation for being fiercely anti-online gambling, has double standards when it comes to horse racing, it appears. Empowered by federal law exemptions that permit wagering over the internet on horse racing, the state this week approved online and telephone wagering on horse races in Louisiana, Associated Press …
Two rivals of UK online casino 32Red.com have given up their infringing domain names, according to a report in the marketing publication The Drum. Both 32Royal and Spin32 have transferred all domain names containing the number ‘32’ over to 32Red unconditionally following the online casino’s success in defending its brand in the High Court in …
Online gambling firm Betfair has deployed a new enterprise messaging solution to aid its international expansion, investing in the Progress SonicMQ messaging platform from software provider Progress Software as part of a three-year, GBP25 million technology investment program. The firm said it is using the SonicMQ platform to help manage high-volume message delivery at a …
According to reports in Marketing Magazine, the UK land and online gambling group Ladbrokes is planning an innovation strategy that involves a marketing investment of GBP50 million. The company is to refocus its marketing strategy by using insights gained online to shape its above-the-line advertising in order to position Ladbrokes as an innovative bookmaker. As …
Atlantis Internet Group, a company whose mission is to bridge the gap between traditional Indian gaming casinos in the United States and online gambling, has announced a technology agreement with EC Development, Inc. The agreement will see Atlantis Internet Group marketing and supporting EC Development Tahoe technologies through its “Tribal Gaming Network,” the Native American …
The DC Council may be preparing for its June 29 enquiry into the activities of Michael A. Brown in getting online gambling approved in Washington DC, but in the meantime the DC Lottery is forging ahead with implementation, the Washington Times reported this week. Officials are gearing up through “demonstration games” that will allow players …
A private member’s bill has been formally tabled by Australia’s anti-gambling independent politician Senator Nick Xenophon. If passed by Parliament the bill would restrict a number of gambling activities in Australia and includes a ban on advertising of betting venues and online gambling sites during G-classified (General Audience) programmes, spot-betting and exotic bets according to …
In a five-year deal, Geelong Racing Club has secured Australian sports bookmaker Centrebet as the naming rights sponsor for its Geelong Cup. Paul Bongiorno, Club President said: “We believe this is the largest sponsorship secured by a country club. The club is thrilled that Centrebet will be its major partner for the next five years …