Incredible as it may seem in these challenging financial times, the United States Treasury still lacks an Under Secretary of the Treasury…and critics are blaming it on Internet gambling’s arch-foe, Arizona Senator Jon Kyl.
The results of a research study commissioned by the competitions website Winmonkey.co.uk and released this week are attracting attention in the UK media.
If the run of successful industry legal actions against the state of Kentucky continues, January 21st will be a date to celebrate.
our readers will recall the acrimonious and controversial legal clashes over Internet gambling patents that saw 1st Technology LLC and the Bodog online gambling group clash two years ago, with serious consequences for the Bodog brand that were resolved only later in a settlement.
Making its debut on the Internet this week at RTG-powered online casinos is an entertaining new progressive slot branded Wok & Roll (an identity shared appropriately with prominent Asian restaurants). The new offering has a culinary theme that serves up free games and has two jackpots on the menu to spice things up.
Online gambling operator ChanceRoom.com has dreamed up an imaginative online gambling offering that is sure to catch attention, virtually turning the giant Roue de Concorde ferris wheel into a monumental roulette wheel. Until 24 January, the giant ferris wheel on the Place des Concordes in Paris will provide virtual roulette-inspired action in which contestants will …
ICAP Ocean Tomo has announced that it has been engaged to sell a patent portfolio of Server Based Gaming technology owned by Legal iGaming Inc. The portfolio contains 6 issued U.S. patents and 24 pending domestic and foreign patent applications.
The major UK online and land gambling group Ladbrokes plc has announced that its 52-year-old CEO, Chris Bell is departing after almost 20 years with the company.
Who would have thunk it….six figure paydays playing scratchcards online?!
The Isle of Man-based online gambling software provider Microgaming today launches its latest flagship video slot, HELLBOY.
Christophe Blanchard-Dignac, the chief exective of the French state gambling monopoly Francaise des Jeux, says his company is considering entering the bidding for British lottery firm Camelot, which operates the British national lottery.
Online gambling software developer and turnkey provider Cryptologic has signed a three year deal with Realex Payments to support its card processing requirements across a growing customer base.
Nordicbet, one of the Swedish online gambling software provider Net Entertainment’s oldest customers, is the first to be equipped with the latest development of the company’s popular Casino Module product – a download version.
Online scratchcard developer and white label provider Neogames and the Spanish firm ITNet Consulting, have signed a partnership agreement that will see Neogames provide fully managed services and a new Spanish language scratchcard site branded Mundirasca.com, believed to be a first-to-market venture.
The Irish and international sports broadcaster Setanta has revealed that it plans to enter the online gambling sector in collaboration with the French Internet gambling operator ChilliGaming. Serving some 600 000 households, Setanta makes for a powerful partner.
GTech G2, the online gambling group that includes Boss Media, Dynamite Idea, Finsoft and St Minver, has launched a major update to its instant games casino inventory that brings the portfolio to 53 games.
The Latvian-based online gambling software developer CTXM is to launch its Multi-Brand Solutions product during the ICE 2010 show at the end of this (January) month.
Perhaps spurred on by the efforts of other Baltic nations like Estonia, Lithuania is reportedly developing new laws to handle the contentious area of Internet gambling…and early indications are that it could follow the Estonian model, controlling licensees with strict but genuine regulations that will require local licencing and servers in-country, as well as protection …
PartyGaming plc, the Gibraltar-based online gambling group, started the week off on a high note with the announcement of a major business coup. The company has signed an exclusive, five-year agreement to provide an online gaming platform for poker and casino games in Denmark for the state gambling monopoly Danske Spil A/S.
The state of Pennsylvania has seriously upped the competitive ante in land gambling, legalising poker, blackjack and other table games at its casino licensees this week as it seeks to close budgetry gaps with gambling tax revenues.
According to a study by the research company Taylor Nelson Sofres, online gambling operators have a hill to climb before the country liberalises its gambling policies – the research has produced the shocking finding that three out of four French citizens mistrust online gaming.
Over the past six months the UK online gambling trade body, the Remote Gambling Association, has been engaged in a wide-ranging consultation on sports betting (including horse and greyhound racing), most notably with regard to commercial and integrity issues.
The recognition of online gambling by the government of the Baltic state of Estonia was the subject of a review in the publication Baltic Reports over the weekend.
The Daily Telegraph carried an interesting article over the weekend in which it examined the firmly established gambling culture of the Chinese nation, a pastime that has continued to flourish despite being largely outlawed on the Chinese mainland since the Communist Party took power in 1949.