Jersey politicians may still be arguing about the nitty gritty of becoming an online gambling jurisdiction, but the Channel Island’s telecommunications company is getting on with upgrading its facilities in anticipation of increased demand.
The Gala Coral group’s online operations at Gala Bingo.com have launched an entertaining new 5 reel, 20 pay-line slot dubbed Joker Jester.
The furore over the Greek government’s proposed online gambling tax rate of 6 percent of turnover appears to have been ameliorated with the news this week that following submissions from interested parties, the politicians have now opted for a 30 percent tax on gross profits.
The UK Advertising Standards Authority has released a finding against another online gambling company, this time criticising an internet promo launched by Cassava Enterprises’s Sing Bingo website.
Las Vegas Strip gambling revenue fell 2.5 percent in January in the third straight monthly decline as the city faces an uneven recovery, reports the Bloomberg news agency.
After suffering a setback in litigation against a New South Wales levy on turnover, the Australian divisions of internet gambling groups Betfair and Sportsbet won the right to appeal Friday.
Police in West Valley City, Utah shut down two online gambling operations in raids this week, arresting dozens of people in the process and confiscating computer equipment, reports KSL.com.
The sheer size and growth of the internet gambling market generated in Australia by online gamblers has prompted further calls for regulation rather than the present government’s prohibitionary stance.
The chief executive officer of the giant Austrian online gambling group Bwin Interactive, Norbert Teufelberger, is optimistic that the German market will be opened up and the current monopolistic stranglehold of the country’s sixteen states (provinces) will be broken.
Thursday is a landmark day for the Italian online gambling sector, with the government expected to gazette and bring into force new regulations further opening up the market to poker cash games and internet casino action.
Online players can look forward to a whole range of fresh online slots once an agreement between slots manufacturer Aristocrat Leisure Limited and online gambling network GameAccount comes to fruition.
Gamesys’s Jackpot Joy bingo site will unveil its latest comical ‘Queen of Bingo’ commercials this week, with the new television advertising campaign running through until 18th March and coinciding with the popular annual TV Comic Relief charity fundraiser.
A merger between Italian betting group SNAI and the Cogetech group should transform both companies and create a strong offline and online sports betting presence, according to reports in the Italian daily newspaper Il Corriere della Sera.
There was more disappointing news from New Jersey this week as local media reported that Senator Ray Lesniak’s lawsuit seeking to overturn a federal sports betting ban has been unsuccessful.
David Yu, chief executive officer of online gambling group Betfair, had some interesting observations on the Bwin-Party Gaming merger and its likely impact on Bwin subsidiary Ongame this week when he spoke to reporters following the release of his company’s third quarter results.
The government of Cyprus – a Mediterranean island that is home to many online gambling companies – remained committed to banning the pastime this week, with the Cabinet approving a sweeping draft bill.
For some months now online gambling companies have been complaining about the disadvantages of operating in the French market principally on high taxation with certain major groups indicating that they are holding back from the market because of these drawbacks.
In its third quarter results released this week, UK-based online betting exchange and gaming operator Betfair announced that its betting exchange will begin operating under a Gibraltar licence from 9 March 2011.
UK-based online gaming company 32Red Plc delivered its 2010 preliminary results for the 52 weeks ending 31 December 2010, this week.
Kudos to an online casino based in Gibraltar, Jackpot City.com, which this week made a donation of A$5 000 to help victims of the recent Australian floods.
Effecive March 1st, Jan Štefanek (33) has been appointed as general manager of the Fortuna gambling group in Poland. He was formally director of the sales network and sales director of Fortuna, a position he accepted in February 2007.
Gamblers are now looking for player vs player scenarios but want something more than unimaginative variants of Bingo, Poker, Online Roulette and Casino says Andrew Denbigh, CEO of new arrival One in a Million Gaming Limited.
Iowa was in the gambling news again this week, but it was not in connection with the online gambling legislation currently before the state Senate.
SA government insiders have claimed that the much-delayed review of South African gambling, including online gambling, may finally be discussed in the coming weeks, having been delivered into government hands.