The Malta-based scratchcard developer that appears to have dominated that gambling genre in a remarkably short space of time has released another new game.
The extensive website revamp by Intercasino.com is being marked by a special promotion that will give the winning punter a sky-high thrill.
Boylesports has signed a deal with the dedicated UK sports betting TV service The Betting Channel to sponsor segments of the channel’s output.
Online gambling group Sportingbet plc has posted an increase in second quarter profits of 18 percent, thanks mainly to growth in the football betting sector.
The Saskatchewan Liquor and Gaming Authority in Canada is paying for a campaign to educate young people about the dangers of gambling, reports the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Affiliate marketers on the books of the popular RTG-powered online casino All Star Slots.com were advised this week that their interests would be safeguarded following the acquisition of the company by the respected Club World Group of online casinos.
Microgaming will be releasing its latest new games on March 4th, according to an operator press release this week.
The Irish online and land betting group Paddy Power felt the pain of weaker Irish and UK economies and a run of results that favoured the punter last year, it revealed as it posted its 2009 numbers this week.
Macau, the gambling island off the Chinese coast, continued to stage a significant recovery from past economic doldrums in February, posting gambling revenues of 13.5 billion patacas ($1.69 billion), an increase of about 69 percent over the same period of last year, the Macau Post Daily reported this week.
Online gambling software developer Cryptologic released its financial results for the three months and full year ended December 31, 2009 this week, showing reduced revenues as a result of lower wagering activity across the industry, adverse currency factors, and a reduced contribution from a key licensee.
The McClatchy-Tribune Information service reports that an online gambling market estimated to be worth $20 billion globally this year continues to attract pro-online gambling investment in lobbying activities.
Britain’s biggest lottery winners yet, Nigel Page and Justine Laycock, generously acknowledged the 20 year loyalty of their house cleaner Denise Kelso this week, gifting her with their former GBP 400 000, four-bedroomed home and throwing in a car for good measure.
The Bulgarian government is doing rather well out of gambling taxation, according to the Sega Daily newspaper…so well that profits declared by gambling companies exceeded those of the entire Bulgarian banking system in 2009.
A German immigrant in Naples, Florida is in detention and under investigation by the federal authorities on allegations that he acted as a conduit for payments to Internet poker players.
The US state that achieved international notoriety by attempting to seize international online gambling domains on protectionist and moral grounds – Kentucky – has just passed a law designed to tax….online gamblers!
Commenting on the recent slew of arrests in raids on Internet gambling operations in China, a director of the government’s cyber security bureau warned this week that there was more of the same in the pipeline.
The latest British government report on live bingo makes for dismal reading, indicating that in contrast to a booming online business, the live sector is struggling.
In Victoria, Australia a gambling corruption case originally flagged for the authorites as suspicious by the Betfair online gambling group, moved into a new phase this week as Racing Victoria officials issued two charges against jockey Danny Nikolic.
GeorgiosA, a 28-year-old Greek player at the Net Entertainment-powered Bet-at-home.com online casino, is a happy man this week, having won Euro 3 015 906 and change for a stake of Euro 2.50 whilst playing the Mega Fortune Jackpot progressive.
Friction appears to be building between the land casino industry in Nevada and state legislators scrambling to find a solution to the state’s yawning $900 million budget gap…and this time an economically struggling industry is reluctant to bail the state out.
The former chief of the UK Responsibility in Gambling Trust, Malcolm Bruce, has found a new home in the Betfair group management as Head of Sustainable Gambling.
The Hawaii legislature’s Committee on Finance has sealed the fate of a proposal to introduce casino gambling on the islands, at least as far as the current sessions are concerned.
William Hill Online, the Internet gambling wing of major British betting group William Hill plc, was a bright spot in an otherwise lacklustre set of results released this week that showed a 9 percent decline in the group’s full year 2009 pre-tax profit to GBP 197.5 million (2008 FY GBP 216.1 million).
Legislation drafted to open up the French online gambling market moved forward another step this week, passing through the French Senate on a first reading with a positive vote of 181 to 140.