With much talk of Canadian provincial governments entering the online gambling sector as operators or regulators, the subject has become a priority with several governments.
The weekend has seen a surge in mainstream reportage on internet gambling in newspapers across Australia; most of it related to the conclusions reached by the government’s Productivity Commission.
The Baltic state of Estonia, which recently commenced regulating and licensing online gambling operators has named its third licensee.
The GREaT Foundation problem gambling charity in Britain, which is funded by voluntary contributions from the gambling industry, has announced that its 2010 target of GBP 5 million has been achieved.
The New Jersey Attorney General’s office has confirmed a key arrest in an ongoing investigation into the Lucchese crime family interests in internet sports betting.
Police in Manila, Philippines have busted an illegal online gambling operation in which live dealers interacted with Internet players of casino games.
Virgin Casino launched the Wagerworks-developed online slot Noah’s Ark as the week closed. Based on a highly successful IGT land slot, which is a fave with players around the world, Noah’s Ark is a 30-payline game that has an innovative Split Symbols feature.
Online gambler ‘Arkry222’ is probably still celebrating his good fortune after hitting a $1.8 million slots jackpot win at Party Casino.com earlier this month.
Managers at government-owned media companies were rebuffed when they tried to lift a blanket ban on promoting or reporting on activities such as gambling, smoking or alcohol this week.
Despite permission to go online from state lawmakers, the Illinois Lottery has apparently not been able to achieve its full potential, and plans are now in hand to bring in the expertise of private sector management to boost performance in an increasingly competitive field.
In what has been described as its biggest single advertising push yet, British gambling group Ladbrokes is about to launch a GBP 5 million marketing campaign to capitalise on the World Cup football, which kicks off in South Africa June 11.
The Gibraltar-based online gambling group 888.com had disappointing news as the week ended, noting that it expected full-year profit to be significantly lower than market expectations.
The UK online media group Media Corporation plc has made a welcome return to profitability in the first half of its financial year, thanks principally to a significant 415 percent boost to revenues from its recently acquired online gambling subsidiary Purple Lounge.
There was bad news for Intralot investors this week as the world’s second-largest lottery systems provider reported a 31.5 percent drop in first-quarter 2010 net profit.
The Philippines internet group Philweb says it has plans to expand the success of its Pagcor e-Games Café online gambling product into Vietnam, Laos, Saipan, Palau, Papua New Guinea, East Timor and Nepal.
According to mandatory filings regarding its quarterly lobbying expenditure, the American Gaming Association, a trade group representing the interests of US land casino operators, invested a further $430 000 in government lobbying in the first quarter of 2010.
The call by the Spanish EU Presidency earlier this week for member nations to come together and frame a common definition for ‘illegal gambling’ has been answered with unusual speed by Brussels politicians.
If you’re using the Internet you need to take sensible precautions and be constantly on the alert for phishing and fraudsters, warns online infrastructure services provider VeriSign, which this week released the results of its latest internet safety study.
After a soft launch this (May) month, marketing firm Netboost Media plans to go to full operational status on June 1st with a new online bingo site branded Polo Bingo.com.
Internet betting tool developer Bettorlogic, which is backed by Andrew Black of Betfair fame and former Sportingbet chief Nigel Payne, has announced further licence agreements with a number of top sports-books and media-owners.
Addressing the company’s annual general meeting in London today (Thursday), Playtech plc chairman, Roger Withers, said he was delighted to report another year of growth and progress by the company.
Veteran online gambling software provider Microgaming has announced the submission of three significant operator applications to the National Regulatory Authority of the French online gambling market the ARJEL, two of which are in collaboration with 888 Holdings plc.
After an operational life of around 2 years, the management at Klub8, a Playtech-powered online casino and poker room, has advised players that it is to close at the end of June this (2010) year.
Texas Hold ‘Em and other popular social networking games developed by the San Francisco-based company Zynga will soon be available through the vast Yahoo! network, according to an announcement this week.