Tonio Fenech, Malta’s minister of finance has explained why the island government has been creating EU waves by opposing a common definition of “online gambling”, which has caused delays and some disruption of attempts to agree on what constitutes internet gambling throughout the trade bloc.
Online gambling software provider RealTime Gaming has launched its latest video slot, a 5 reel 25 pay-line game in the Real Series with an undersea theme titled Ocean Dreams.
Malaysian police continue to clamp down hard on illegal internet gambling, with reports from the Bernama news agency indicating further action over the past 48 hours.
Intralot Holdings International Limited has acquired a 33 percent stake in Russian betting firm Kelicom, gaining entrée to a ‘strategic stake’ in Russian sports betting operation Favorit Bookmakers Office and its extensive gambler database.
Justice caught up with a 21-year-old UK hacker this week as Alistair Peckover was sentenced to almost two years of jail time after being convicted of perpetrating sophisticated and lucrative online frauds. The prosecution revealed that Peckover systematically defrauded legitimate online businesses and unsuspecting members of the public with his self-taught computer skills, amassing ill-gained …
Attempts to legalise intrastate online gambling in the state of New Jersey entered a new phase this week as Democratic Party lawmakers called for a gaming summit to reconcile competing proposals to put sports and Internet betting to a public vote in a referendum this fall.
The Kahnawake Gaming Commission and the Financial Services Regulatory Commission for Antigua and Barbuda, two sovereign online gambling licensing jurisdictions, have jointly announced a new working relationship.
The UK Gambling Commission this week defended procedures on its advertising white listing of foreign licensing jurisdictions.
FetchTV viewers in the UK will be able to bet on sporting events as they unfold on television following a deal between online gambling group Betfair TV and IP Vision, parent company of Fetch.
The independent website performance monitor Gomez reports that major online sports betting companies Stan James and Paddy Power delivered the most consistent and fast response service over the weekend as football World Cup betting ramped up in the preliminary rounds.
The major Reading-based UK internet gambling group Unibet is to up its game in the management and content of company websites following an outsourcing deal with Atex Polopoly.
Betfair Arcade members have a wider range of gaming options to look forward to following the launch this week of six new exclusive casino games.
Virgin’s engaging founder and entrepreneur in chief, Sir Richard Branson, is renowned for identifying new and commercially exploitable trends, and his recent venture into video gaming is a good illustration of his talents.
June 17th will see the launch of a new concept in video gaming when OnLive launches its new cloud gaming service, an event that could present fresh business models in online gambling.
A lottery fraud case that occurred 5 years ago came to a conclusion in a Toronto court this week when Hafiz Malik (62) was sent to jail for a year by Judge Rebecca Shamai.
Litigation initiated in New South Wales, Australia by Sportsbet yielded a positive result this week when a federal court ruled that the way in which horse racing authorities collect fees is discriminatory against major bookmakers.
This week was a lucky one for a film student who logged in to 3D online casino WinADay to kill some time with a little gambling recreation…and hit a $200 859 jackpot!
The importance of social networking and gaming was again underlined this week when online gambling operator and software provider 888.com announced the acquisition of the assets comprising the Mytopia social games development studio from Real Dice Inc.
Police raids on cyberbookies have raked in more confiscated cash and arrests in Hong Kong, with police revealing that over HK$113 million (US$14.4 million) in World Cup bets were seized and 64 people arrested in raids in Hong Kong and southern China.
Hong Kong police spokesmen told Agence France Presse over the weekend that they have smashed an illegal World Cup betting ring, arresting 25 persons in the raids.
In an attempt to curb internet gambling on the World Cup football, Thailand enforcement authorities in cooperation with the Information and Communication Technology Ministry have blocked 248 gambling websites, and have threatened that any police found involved in or acting as bookmakers will be summarily discharged.
The massive nation-wide anti-online gambling blitz by Chinese police continued as the week ended, with spokesmen reporting the destruction of a major online gambling syndicate based in the Jiangsu Province.
The US gambling giant Harrah’s Entertainment appears to be widening its lobbying effort in regard to online gambling, The Legal Times reports, noting that the group is adding an additional lobbying firm to promote the legalisation of online gambling in the United States.
Attempts by Cyprus government lawmakers to come to grips with internet gambling have come to a temporary halt due to procedural difficulties, the Cyprus Mail reports.