Online gambling portals are already reporting the imminent release of the December new games from online gambling software provider Microgaming. The releases include slots with a traditionally Christmas-time theme in the form of a major Scrooge slot; another themed on festive feasting, a trip to the bush for some tribal treasure hunting and a brand …
Reports over the weekend that a massive police action is in progress across Europe in an attempt to stamp out football cheating and corruption have been followed by news of nine more arrests in Italy and a crisis meeting called by FIFA.
The Malta subsidiary of Austrian online sportsbook operator Interwetten will be the new sponsor for the Honda MotoGP motorcycle racing team for the 2010 season.
December 1st 2009 is U-day; the implementation date of the regulations supporting the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act compelling US financial institutions to block financial transactions with imprecisely defined ‘illegal’ online gambling operators.
The successful weekend on the progressive jackpots has been followed by a productive Monday in which yet another major online jackpot has reportedly been hit.
Isle of Man based online gambling software developer Playtech plc has been approved as an Associate Member of the World Lottery Association, the global professional association for State lottery and gaming organisations.
Betfair, already litigating against Racing New South Wales over the imposition of a 1.5 percent levy on turnover, could find itself contemplating further levy problems following the passage last week of more legislation – this time in Western Australia.
The Dublin-based provider of online exchange and sportsbook software, Global Betting Exchange, has provided AsianLogic subsidiary Orient Capital Ventures Inc with its iBroker sportsbook software.
Visionary iGaming, the live dealer software provider started by an ex-VueTec executive and reportedly making good progress, has announced that it has signed Amsterdams Casino.com as a licensee.
The giant Italian lottery and gaming operator Gruppo Lottomatica has released its financial results for the first nine months of 2009 showing a solid 14 percent year-on-year increase in revenues to Euro 1.592 billion.
PhilWeb International Gaming Corp. has been formed by Philippines online gambling and Internet gaming interests to extend the reach of Philweb’s global gaming efforts.
Sunday saw another major progressives jackpot win, this time on an as yet unidentified Vegas Technologies-powered online casino. The win follows a major jackpot reported on Aztec Riches Saturday.
Tt’s been a great weekend for one so far unidentified Aztec Riches Casino.com player, who hit the Treasure Nile progressive slot jackpot for $149 075 Saturday.
The innovative and unusual RTG-powered online casino Buzzluck.com, headed by respected industry marketing guru Alex Czajkowski and part of the Gaming20.com stable, appears to be on the move from the Malta jurisdiction to Panama City.
The blog at Right2Bet, the initiative aimed at generating a Citizens Initiative for legalised and open online gambling across Europe, reports that UK betting group Stanleybet is having to resort to litigation against Italian regulators who have allegedly unfairly denied the company a license.
More details are starting to emerge on Friday’s assertion by German prosecutors that a major international police action against football match-fixing is currently in progress across Europe.
The CNBC television business program “Closing Bell” gave the online gambling legal issue in the US some air Thursday in a four minute insert coinciding with the Global Gaming Expo in Las Vegas.
Online poker players impacted by the reportedly multi-million dollar failure of Jo Remme’s Eurolinx, Linx Casino, Linx Media and Bet On Bet companies will be heartened to learn that Maltese regulatory officials at the Lotteries and Gaming Authority (LGA) have involved the island’s police – and presumably their international contacts – in the enquiry, suggesting …
The beleaguered Polish government’s attempts to take the heat off politicians by passing more restrictive gambling laws moved a step further Friday as Parliament passed laws that confine gambling to licensed land casinos and phase out the slot machines currently found in many Polish cafes, clubs, shops and service stations.
Fears that the recently proposed 10 percent Bulgarian gambling tax would by further boosted to 15 percent faded in the National Assembly Friday as the Budget Commission rejected a motion by conservative politicians to raise the tax by another 5 percent.
A new start-up company in Cambridge, UK has developed software which it claims can protect online gamblers from fraud.
The Bootle Times in Liverpool reports that the proposed closure of betting company Ladbrokes call centre in Aintree (about 10.5 km north of Liverpool city centre) could put up to 263 employees out of work. Aintree is one of two Ladbrokes call centres in the UK, the other being in Harrow, Middlesex.
With the football world still in uproar over Ireland being ousted from the 2010 World Cup following a questionable French victory, UK bookies have done the right thing and refunded bets to punters.
European media are reporting on statements from German prosecutors this week that suggest widespread police actions and an unspecified number of arrests across Europe by various cooperating police forces investigating football match-fixing.