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.
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.
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.
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 …
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.
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.’
The online division of William Hill plc has launched a new online Spanish Bingo product.
Making the headlines late Friday was a Justice Department press release advising that David Carruthers, the middle aged formed CEO of the now defunct BetOnSports online gambling empire, has been sentenced to 33 months in prison on charges related to the activities of the once-mighty BoS in accepting sports bets online from US punters.
The belated news emerged this week that a Greek player on the Playtech-powered Bet365 online gambling site had the best Christmas ever, thanks to a Euro 450 000 jackpot hit on the Gold Rally progressive.
The RTG-powered online casino and Cake Poker Network powered online poker operations at DoylesCasino.com and DoylesRoom.com have a new leader going into 2010 following the appointment of global marketing manager Will Griffiths as president of the company.
Following a problem gambling class action involving 120 000 players and initiated in 2001, Loto-Quebec has agreed to a multi-million Canadian dollar settlement, reports the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Betfair, one of the world’s biggest online betting communities, has announced the launch of the first betting application for TVs running the Yahoo! TV Widget Engine in a prescient move that has identified the importance of this emerging interactive platform.
The former French gambling monopoly Pari Mutuel Urbain has made a further move to safeguard its market positioning in anticipation of market liberalisation by signing a four-year sponsorship deal with the French football federation Federation Francaise De Football (FFF).
The much anticipated report of the British government’s Department of Culture, Media and Sport on Internet gambling was released this week and will give online gambling operators interested in the UK market plenty to chew on.
RM Royal Media Ltd., which claims to be the world’s largest online Rummy software provider, and Microgame S.p.A., a major service provider for online public games in Italy, have signed an agreement to integrate Rummy games into the People’s Network, the biggest online player community in Italy managed by Microgame. The agreement calls for the …
Euro Partners has launched Titanbet.com, a new online sportsbook platform related to the well established Titan Poker online gambling website, and the first and thus far only sports betting platform developed by Internet gambling software developer, Playtech.
After months of press releases and hype, the partnership between land gambling company Caribbean Casino and Gaming Corporation and Kenilworth Systems appears to be coming to fruition, with the first successful test of live dealer roulette action streamed over the Internet from the Sousa Grand Casino in the Dominican Republic.
It’s taken almost a year, with some interesting and even evasive verbal gymnastics from a number of involved persons, but the truth is finally out: Casino Affiliate Programs is a financial beneficiary – the numbers are not disclosed – of affiliate conferences organised by iGaming Business in the wake of the early 2009 ownership meltdown …