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Stan James extends online gaming agreement with Chartwell

14 Oct 2010

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.

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Comtrade to power live dealer action from Palace Casino

14 Oct 2010

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.

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Atlantic City casinos still in the doldrums

13 Oct 2010

Associated Press reports that the NJ Casino Control Commission’s latest statistics show that Atlantic City land casinos suffered another bad month in September.

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Online gambling spin-offs for new Endemol division

13 Oct 2010

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.

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Malta regulator clarifies "unenforceable gambling debt" law

13 Oct 2010

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.

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Legal kudos for eCOGRA

12 Oct 2010

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.

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Turkish website for Eurosport

12 Oct 2010

The European sports entertainment group Eurosport has launched its eleventh international website in Turkey at tr.eurosport.com.

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Call for harmonised control of sports betting

12 Oct 2010

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).

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Beneficial Holdings launches online casino

11 Oct 2010

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.

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Intralot cracks a French licence

11 Oct 2010

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.

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Ladbrokes reports positive third quarter

11 Oct 2010

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.

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Second French client for Spiral Solution

11 Oct 2010

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.

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Brit wins 3 mill on the pools

11 Oct 2010

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.

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Netherland Antilles is no more

11 Oct 2010

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.

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Restrictions on gambling adverts

11 Oct 2010

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.

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Relief at last for Nevada

9 Oct 2010

The Nevada Gaming Board has released statistics for August 2010 which at last show some signs of recovery among land operations in the gambling state.

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Betfair shares snapped up

9 Oct 2010

Betfair proved its naysayers wrong this week, with its proposed IPO of ten percent of its shares over-subscribed in the first 24 hours Friday.

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Wagerflex approved by French regulator

9 Oct 2010

Iforium’s Wagerflex e-wallet has achieved French regulator approval through the internet gambling site Paris365.fr, just launched by French operator Jeux365.

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Dutch reaction to legalisation reports

8 Oct 2010

Wednesday’s De Telegraaf newspaper speculation that the incoming coalition government in Holland could be about to legalise online gambling has been followed by widespread reaction in the European country.

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US politician´s wife indicted

8 Oct 2010

Eremian is alleged to operate a well established internet sports betting site from Antigua, using a bank account in the United States that was managed by his sister and facilitated the movement of funds to the value of over $7 million.

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Major sponsorship deal for online bookie

8 Oct 2010

Global online gaming operator, StanJames.com, announced a major five-year sponsorship agreement with The Jockey Club this week that will result in one of the showpiece events at Cheltenham Festival becoming the Stan James Champion Hurdle.

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Breakthrough in Holland on internet gambling?

7 Oct 2010

The Dutch newspaper Telegraaf revved up online gamblers and observers alike this week with a speculative report that a change of government could be bringing about a revision of hitherto monopolistic and negative policies on internet gambling.

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Online operations star performer in Rank Group

7 Oct 2010

Interim results released this week by the UK online and land gambling group Rank plc show that the group’s interactive division has generated revenues double those of the parent group.

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Betfair set for IPO

7 Oct 2010

Confirmation of rumours that have been circulating for months came this week with the release of a prospectus on Betfair’s flotation of 10 percent of its stock on the London exchange.

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