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Big PR on really big wheel

12 Jan 2010

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 …

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Server based gaming patent up for sale

12 Jan 2010

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.

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Ladbrokes chief to quit

12 Jan 2010

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.

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Big money in scratchcard action

12 Jan 2010

Who would have thunk it….six figure paydays playing scratchcards online?!

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Microgaming licenses comic book hero Hellboy

12 Jan 2010

The Isle of Man-based online gambling software provider Microgaming today launches its latest flagship video slot, HELLBOY.

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French to bid on UK lottery?

11 Jan 2010

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.

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New card processor for Cryptologic

11 Jan 2010

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.

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Casino Module in download format

11 Jan 2010

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.

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Spanish scratch cards planned

11 Jan 2010

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.

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Sports broadcaster plans online gambling venture

11 Jan 2010

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.

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Nine new games from Gtech G2

11 Jan 2010

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.

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CTXM to display new multi-brand product at ICE

11 Jan 2010

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.

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Another Baltic state gearing up for online gambling?

11 Jan 2010

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 …

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Major Danish deal for Partygaming

11 Jan 2010

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.

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Pennsylvania expands gambling

11 Jan 2010

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.

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Shock trust stats on French internet gambling

11 Jan 2010

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.

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R.G.A. report on sportsbetting integrity

11 Jan 2010

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.

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Estonian regulations described

11 Jan 2010

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.

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Chinese love a flutter

11 Jan 2010

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.

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Lucky mistake

11 Jan 2010

The Kentucky media were marvelling this week at the tale, and extraordinary good fortune, of Rob Anderson, a 39-year-old father of two who scooped the Kentucky lottery jackpot of $128 million, thanks to a botched ticket.

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Tribal gambling leader worried about online gambling

11 Jan 2010

Congressman Barney Frank will perhaps be heartened by the news that his latest carefully planned and timed attempt to legalise online gambling in the United States has the opposition worried.

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Snow fall (out)

11 Jan 2010

our readers will recall last week’s interesting backgrounder on betting on snow in London, and the definition of a snowfall in this regard. This week the subject of betting on whether snow would fall more widely in Britain was in the headlines, but it was infortunately in a negtive sense as a row over a …

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New York raids continue

9 Jan 2010

Enforcement officials in New York continue to pursue online sports betting rings, reports the New York Daily News, claiming that individuals connected with organised crime are being watched in a two year, multi million dollar operation that makes extensive use of wire tapping.

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Major progressive launched by Party Casino

9 Jan 2010

Party Casino.com, a subsidiary of the giant Party Gaming plc online gambling group, has launched what it boasts is the largest progressive seeded jackpot in the online gaming industry in the form of ‘The Big One’ and the introduction of classic slot ‘Melon Madness.’

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