Sportingbet’s Australia division today made the biggest financial commitment to a National Rugby League club by a sports wagering company in Australian history with a A$2 million marketing investment.
The huge furore than ensued towards the end of last year following an apparently botched Betfair promo seems to have triggered one or more public complaints with Britain’s advertising watchdog, the Advertising Standards Association.
A return to profitability in the fourth quarter of 2010 follows a year of cost-cutting and restructuring for Swedish online gaming firm Redbet Holding AB.
On the back of a 20 percent rise in FY operating profit, UK gambling group Ladbrokes plc has said it intends enhancing its own technology through investment and flexible partnerships in order to boost its online competitiveness and web presence.
The 20 percent rise in full year operating profit reported this week by UK gambling group Ladbrokes plc should keep the shareholders happy. The land and online gambling group made an operating profit of GBP202.3 million pounds in 2010, up from GBP168.5 million the year before, thanks mainly to the popularity of new gambling machines …
The UK football club Warrington Wolves has announced a partnership with internet bookmaker Betfred.com for this year’s Super League season.
The top UK internet gambling operator Bet365.com has reported another million-dollar-plus win on Playtech’s popular Gold Rally progressive slot.
Politicians on the Channel Island of Jersey, already a burgeoning financial services centre, have voted overwhelmingly to introduce an online gambling licensing regime.
Bulgarian government proposals to impose a ban on gambling advertisements have met with opposition from both land and online operators, who have been voicing their objections during a consultative process this week, calling for equity in laws that affect companies.
In a move seen by many as increasing the pressure on New Jersey governor Chris Christie to sign off on a bill legalising intrastate online gambling, the action group iMEGA (Interactive Media Entertainment and Gaming Association) has released a new independent economic development study.
Online gambling firms operating in the Netherlands are opposed to government plans to auction a limited number of operating licences in 2012, the Financieele Dagblad newspaper reported this week.
The Q4 results released this week by online gambling operator Unibet were almost 16 percent down on the same period last year, but up on Q3 and showed improvement over the full year.
The privacy debacle that attended the launch of British Columbia’s first venture into online gambling last year was again under the spotlight this week following the release of the results of an independent investigation into the affair by the B.C. Information and Privacy Commissioner Elizabeth Denham.
The Bloomberg business news service reports that the Hong Kong Jockey Club, long used to a monopoly on gambling, is feeling the pressure of competition from what it describes as ‘unauthorised Internet betting sites.’
Interesting company valuation and IPO numbers surfaced in the US media this week as social gaming sites made the headlines in merger talks and general reportage.
The Kahnawake Gaming Commission built on its more open and player-sensitive policies this week with the inaugural release of player dispute statistics over the past year.
Perhaps predictably, much of the mainstream media focused on the negative aspect of gambling – problem players – in reportage on the UK Gambling Commission’s third Prevalence of Gambling survey published Tuesday .
The UK Gambling Commission published the results of its annual independent report – The British Gambling Prevalence Survey 2010 (BGPS 2010) – this week.
Online gambing provider, bwin has released its bwin League Information Widget just in time for the start of national leagues and the UEFA Champions League round of 16.
The Player Betting Education Programme managed by the Professional Players Federation (PPF) has been praised by the Remote Gambling Association (RGA) for its success in its first year of operation.
A lucky Bet365 Casino customer identified only as A.A. won the Gold Rally slots progressive jackpot this week and pocketed a healthy $1 207 278 million by landing nine scatters on a maximum bet.
Network and applications provider Exponential-e will be providing internet gaming firm Bet365 with an “extremely fast, high-bandwidth corporate network” to assist in managing the vast amounts of data generated by Bet365’s In-Play betting system.
Rival Gaming’s latest 3D Slot offering – French Cuisine – is a twist on Pixar’s animated movie Ratatouille and centers around a band of entertaining mice and an amusing French Chef who wants them gone.
A dealer-based land casino scam that outwitted casino security at venues throughout the United States and Canada and generated over $7 million in ill-gotten gains culminated last month in a guilty plea by the ringleader, ending a long-running criminal ‘enterprise’ that has been characterised as the biggest card-cheating scam in FBI history.