Las Vegas has a glossy, hi-tech new race and sports book facility following a launch at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino this week in collaboration with Cantor Gaming.
The war against online sportsbetting in the United States continued this week with the U. S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York apparently seizing 10 websites it claims were conspiring to promote the illegal live internet streaming of the NFL Super Bowl.
With controversy swirling around the question of gambling reform in Australia, the recently appointed prime minister, Julia Gillard has commissioned legal advice on who holds the power – the individual territories making up the Commonwealth of Australia…or her federal government.
Internet betting group Betfair has announced the appointment as a non-executive director of Baroness Denise Kingsmill CBE with effect from 1 February 2011. Baroness Kingsmill will also sit on Betfair’s Audit Committee.
Lottery technology provider GTech Corporation has signed a five year contract to provide a new online and instant lottery system and digital multimedia facility to the Luxembourg Loterie Nationale.
The former French gambling monopoly Pari-Mutuel Urbain (PMU) as been taken to task regarding its online corporate identity by the action group le Collectif Libre Choix (Free Choice Collective) at http://www.collectiflibrechoix.com/news.
The ink has hardly dried on the Greek Cabinet’s approval of its new online licensing and taxation regime (passed on January 27) and already the 6 percent tax on turnover is causing waves.
Tex Rees, the Fair Gaming Advocate at the independent player protection and standards body eCOGRA, has released statistics for the year 2010 on disputes involving online gambling sites accredited by the London-based company.
A US government initiative to act against laws that are hampering economic growth may present the online gambling industry with the opportunity to strike a blow against the universally unpopular and growth-inhibiting Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act…and at least one pro-industry body has taken up the challenge.
The Macau Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau recorded revenue of 18.57 billion Patacas (US$2.31 billion) for the month of January 2011. The figure indicates a 33 percent rise in revenue compared to January 2010.
Parlay Entertainment Inc and Wonder Interactive have partnered to launch an integrated social internet bingo application in February 2011.
Online sports betting provider Sportingbet announced its pre-close trading update this week.
SAS CANALWIN, the company created by French broadcaster CANAL + Group and Ladbrokes has gone into liquidation and requested that its ARJEL licence be withdrawn.
UK-based games developer Electracade will be supplying 150 plus games from both its own and parent company Openbet’s games library to Australian online gaming provider Eyecon in a worldwide distribution deal announced this week.
South African credit card holders are currently being told by their banks that buying lottery tickets overseas, or gambling online using their credit cards, is illegal.
Online businesses collaborating with each other by using Iovation’s device reputation service stopped 35,000,000 fraud attempts in 2010 – the company’s most successful year in helping make the Internet a safer place to interact and conduct business.
The Isle of Man-domiciled online gambling group GVC Holdings plc has released its latest trading update, showing total net gaming revenues for the year 2010 up 5.2 percent to Euro 54.8 million.
Excessive debt and massive bingo sector write-downs have reportedly resulted in a poor performance from the UK online and land gambling group Gala Coral.
The American Gaming Association, a trade body that represents the interests of most of the major land gambling providers in the United States, has announced a key appointment to its government affairs team.
The question reverberating around the online gambling industry – will New Jersey governor Chris Christie sign into law Sen. Ray Lesniak’s successful online gambling legalisation bill – remained unanswered this week as the governor signed off on two other gambling-related bills.
Nevada’s Gaming Control Board has reported another dismal year of losses for the state’s gambling interests, with extensive write-downs and weak revenues in the latest fiscal year ending June 30 2010.
German gambling developer and supplier, JAXX SE formerly JAXXAG announced its highest quarterly revenue results in the history of the company.
The UK minister for tourism and heritage, John Penrose released a statement on the progress of the proposed GBP200 million sale of the UK Tote this week.
Creating more than a frisson of interest this week, the Dutch News.nl website reported that Dutch junior finance minister Frans Weekers has revealed that the Netherlands government is considering selling off the state-monopolised Holland Casino group.