Chartwell Technology has signed a licensing agreement with Ho Gaming to distribute its live dealer casino offering in the European market.
Spotting the pigeon at a poker table takes on new meaning in recent research which shows that the humble pigeon is by preference a high roller when it comes to a tasty food bet.
Details are still scarce on reports that Las Vegas land casino giant Station Casinos Inc. has launched litigation against two internet gambling websites, one of them based in Britain.
Addressing a conference arranged by the European Union Presidency this week, European Commission chief Michele Barnier suggested that it was time that public authorities faced head on and addressed pertinent questions regarding online gambling.
Addressing a conference arranged by the European Union Presidency this week, European Commission chief Michele Barnier suggested that it was time that public authorities faced head on and addressed pertinent questions regarding online gambling.
Europe will gain from harmonised EU rules governing the gaming sector; that’s the message delivered by Norbert Teufelberger, co-CEO of the major Austrian internet gambling group Bwin, to a packed audience in the European Parliament at the third “Responsible Gaming Day” (RGD) this week.
The Monaco iGaming conference in Monte Carlo is generating interesting perspectives and opinions on the recently liberalised French market, and the perceived problems of high taxation and low limits on player payouts.
The UK live-betting company Boolabus and its Betstream product is behind the new live betting application launched this week by Brit sports betting firm Skybet.
The Singapore police have reported the arrest of eight men for offences under the Common Gaming House Act following a joint operation that involved the Bedok police and the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority.
The respected Gibraltar-based bookmaker Stan James.com has renewed for the third time its software agreement with Canadian software developer Chartwell Technology, taking the business relationship through to 2012.
ComTrade (formerly Hermes SoftLab), has entered the competitive world of live dealer internet gambling, deploying its Live Games system at the UK-based Palace Casino and offering online gamblers roulette and blackjack.
Associated Press reports that the NJ Casino Control Commission’s latest statistics show that Atlantic City land casinos suffered another bad month in September.
The European television production giant Endemol, developer of blockbuster concepts like Big Brother and Deal or No Deal, has announced the formation of a new division that will bring new and fresh ideas and games to the online gambling space.
It would appear that it takes a substantial amount of publicity to wring a comment from the Malta online gambling regulator, the LGA. After widespread news coverage on a reported provision in Malta law concerning gambling debts being unenforceable, the LGA ignored requests for comment, but last week published a clarification on its website.
The Internet Business Law Services organisation has acknowledged the contribution to the online gambling industry made by player protection and standards non-profit eCOGRA on its website this month.
The European sports entertainment group Eurosport has launched its eleventh international website in Turkey at tr.eurosport.com.
The discussions on internet sports betting at the SportelMonaco conference in Monte Carlo proved interesting this week, with urgent calls for control of international sports betting to be harmonised, perhaps under the supervision of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
Grupo Beneficial, S.A., a subsidiary of Beneficial Holdings, Inc. has launched a new online casino at Bet.cr, powered by Total E-Soft and available in both download and Flash instant play formats in 17 languages.
Intralot France, a subsidiary of the international Intralot Group, has been awarded a five year online sports betting licence by the French e-gaming regulator ARJEL.
Ladbrokes investors will be pleased with the UK gambling group’s third quarter 2010 results released this week, which report a 128 percent rise in operating profit over the same period last year, thanks in no small part to a successful football World Cup in June-July.
Spiral Solutions France, a joint venture between Spiral Solutions and Santa Maria Group, has announced an agreement to launch Mypok.fr – a new online poker room – in France in early 2011.
Britain’s first ever GBP 3 million individual football Pools winner has been revealed by The Football Pools. In the 87-year history of the Pools, it is the largest pay-out to an individual winner.
According to reports on the BBC Monday, the Netherlands Antilles Dutch dependency has ceased to exist following constitutional status changes which make the islands, including Curacao and St Maarten in the Caribbean, autonomous countries, joining Aruba, which attained autonomy in 1986.
With the future of online gambling regulation still unclear in South Africa the government’s latest move is designed to restrict gambling advertisements in general on television and movie screens to night time viewing. In doing so the Department of Trade and Industry appears to be following the British example.