The Channel Island of Jersey’s economy will benefit from the introduction of online gambling licensing regulations, government minister Alan McLean told the BBC this week.
The Malaysian newspaper The Star reports the sad tale of a 36-year-old local businessman who lost 700 000 Malaysian Ringgits (about $228 162) in a two week splurge on internet gambling.
The major French betting group Pari Mutuel Urbain has tasked digital marketing specialists Publicis Modem with developing an online marketing strategy that will increase customer sign-ups, reports e-marketer.fr this week.
Costa Rica-based live dealer technology and services provider Visionary iGaming has unveiled ambitious expansion plans which it claims are necessary due to increasing demand for its live casino studio product.
Retired aerospace worker Jim McCullar says he has been lucky on two occasions in his life – meeting his wife and once winning almost $19 000 playing keno – but his good fortune this week was at least financially his biggest hit yet; he won half of the $380 million Mega Millions jackpot.
Chinese lottery sales continued to soar last year, setting new records as revenues soared 27 percent to 96 billion yuan (US$14.47 billion), the Welfare Lottery Distribution and Management Center (WLDMC) said Thursday.
The Australian domain market reported this week that Poker.com.au was sold for US$100 000 last week, but there has been speculation that with less restrictive Australian laws on advertising in place, the price could have been better.
Reports in The Financial Times and in Leisure Management suggest that the horseracing and bookie sectors are still poles apart on the vexed question of the racing levy, with both parties rejecting a compromise proposal put forward by the government of GBP75-80 million.
The land betting shops of the Gala Coral gambling group in the UK are to benefit from a slew of interactive games popular with online punters and developed by provider Mazooma.
Veteran industry execs like Nigel Payne of Sportingbet fame and Betfair founder Andrew Black are among a team of ten industry managers who will climb Africa’s highest mountain, Kilimanjaro, in February this year, raising money for charity and generously sponsored by Sportingbet.
The New Jersey bill seeking to legalise intrastate online gambling appears to have hit an unexpected scheduling obstacle, according to reports in the local media.
New numbers from the respected UK online gambling monitor H2 Gambling Capital show that despite adverse global economic conditions, gross win in the internet gambling business rose 12.5 percent year-on-year in 2010.
Media Corporation’s intended sale of the desirable domain Gambling.com is generating interest from private equity companies, according to a number of media reports kicking off interest in the sale as business gets back under way in 2011.
The China Press reports that despite unrelenting police enforcement pressure , online gambling continues to flourish in mainly small online gambling shops in Malaysia.
The gambling island of Macau off the Chinese coast has once again proved that it leads the global field, reporting revenues up 58 percent in 2010 to a new record of 188.34 billion patacas ($23.5 billion).
Ignacio Gonzalez, a lucky Spaniard in the country’s Basque region, had a close call this week when he had to scramble to find lottery tickets worth Euro 9 million that he had dumped, mistakenly believing that they were not winners.
The Playtech-powered Europa online casino rather tardily announced a major progressive jackpot winner this week, reporting that Canadian online punter Jocelyn Sirois won Cdn$524,556.55 playing the Beach Life slot….on November 20, 2010!
A court action in which the pro-online gambling action group Interactive Media Entertainment and Gaming Association is involved entered a new phase this week when the U.S. Department of Justice opposed an attempt to legalise sports betting in the state of New Jersey.
A Manhattan federal court sentenced a man who is alleged to have connections with the notorious Gambino crime family to 30 months in jail this week after he pleaded guilty to racketeering charges related to online sports betting.
With the last hours of 2010 ticking away, an online punter on the Bet365 online casino site hit a major progressive win Thursday whilst playing the Clover Rollover slot, a 5 reel, 5 pay-line game where players need to bet a maximum bet of $1 on all 5 pay-lines to qualify for the jackpot. To …
The anti-fraud software and service provider Innovation reports that in 2010 its reputation device screening clients foiled 35 million fraud attempts.
The Swedish online gambling software provider Net Entertainment has signed up another customer for its popular CasinoModule product, agreeing to supply an online casino and regular instant-play and download game additions to the German listed firm JAXX SE.
The UK-based company Gambling Invest plans to get 2011 off to a flying start by offering up a wide variety of gambling-related domains on an internet auction between January 26 and February 2, 2011.
A New Zealand punter from the small town of Magascene in New Zealand must have been especially nice all year and then some – Santa (in the shape of the New Zealand Lottery) brought him a NZ$13 million prize to spread some Yuletide cheer.