The independent standards authority of the online gaming industry, eCOGRA, has announced that the Cereus online poker network has achieved the required standards for its Certified Software accreditation seal.
The IGT UK onling gambling software provider subsidiary Wagerworks has announced that it is to supply its premier online game content to Scandinavian online casino operator, Mr Green.com
Italy’s top administrative court is expected to rule in mid-January on a disputed Euro 9 billion scratch card tender which will determine whether rivals compete in future with the incumbent Lottomatica SpA, reports the Reuters news agency.
The Boardroom celebrations on the agreement by US horseracing company Churchill Downs to buy the online race gambling company Youbet.com could be premature, according to reports in the Los Angeles Business Journal this week.
Following a share-based loan redemption, the London-based retail and online betting provider Betbull Holding has become the controlling owner of the Betbull Bwin Espana SA joint venture established in 2007.
The annual eGaming Review Awards for 2009, handed out this week in London, were hotly contested by some of the most respected online gambling companies on the planet, with the top accolade – Operator of the Year – going to the Vienna-listed Bwin group despite fierce competition from the likes of Bet365, PartyGaming and Betfair.
Betfair’s Right2Bet campaign for an even playing field in European gambling is currently promoting a Charity Challenge that has a real sting in the tail – not only does it raise money for charity; it dramatically illustrates the better returns achievable by betting with private companies rather than state monopolies.
The British media are carrying a warning from the Office of Fair Trading, which reports that hundreds of thousands of Brits have been conned by fake lottery scams.
Following the postponed implementation of the UIGEA regulations, the House Financial Services Committee chairman Barney Frank has scheduled a hearing on Thursday, December 3, to discuss Internet gambling and the opportunity to effectively regulate the industry.
Isle of Man-based online gambling software provider Microgaming has been declared the winner of the 2009 Isle of Man Newspapers Award for Innovation and Independent Thinking.
The imminent release of the first draft of the Polish government’s proposed measures to restrict online gambling activity in the country has attracted international attention as gamblers, Internet freedom advocates and online gambling companies consider the consequences.
Falling temperatures are apparently persuading British online punters that there will be a white Christmas this year, with a growing number putting money on the possibility.
Whilst Congressman Barney Frank, the Poker Players Alliance, Kentucky politicians and various horseracing bodies have received widespread and well deserved plaudits for persuading the Federal Reserve and the US Treasury to postpone the implementation of the UIGEA, it turns out that US financial institutions also played a key role.
Since our last review of the new games scene the pace of fresh offerings appears to have increased rather than eased in the closing months of 2009.
The UK-based online and offline gambling group Paddy Power has added a Flash-based live dealer offering to its online casino at Paddy Power Casino.com.
Online gambling software developer, Parlay Entertainment which is focused mainly on the online bingo market, has reported disappointing third quarter 2009 losses, with revenues declining to $800 000 compared to Q3 2008 when these were $2.5 million, generating a $600 000 loss (Q3 2008: net income of $600 000).
The PoliticsFriday column in the Seattle Weekly, commenting on moves to raise up to $30 million in tax reveues by allowing four minute keno to be enjoyed in the state, highlights the apparent moral ambivalence of state politicians on the issue.
Poland’s president Lech Kaczynski has signed into Polish law the restrictive measures confining gambling to casinos and phasing out slot machines in gaming arcades, cafes, clubs, shops and service stations, reports Agence France Presse.
The British gambling group Sportech released a management statement as the week ended, reporting a positive six months of business and predicting that it will show a full-year improvement on its 2008 numbers.
The announcement by the Fed and the US Treasury late Friday that the December 1st implementation date for the UIGEA regulations has been pushed back to June 1st 2010 has been generally well received.
Casting the shadow of pessimism over the prospect of US legalisation as the week ended was an article in the Las Vegas Sun, which reported on a survey of 17 Internet gambling experts carried out by the American Gaming Association, which itself is maintaining a neutral stance on the issue.
The Toronto Star carried an interesting article on the growing numbers of senior citizens finding their way onto the Internet despite having lived much of their lives pre-Internet.
The major Austrian-based online group Bwin has added the mini version of GTech G2’s popular Aztec Keno progressive jackpot game to its range of side games following the launch of the full-sized game on its site last month.
It’s been a week of management moves in the UK gambling industry, with financial director Simon Lane departing from William Hill plc and Gala Coral’s md for casino and bingo Simon Longbottom heading back to the leisure and entertainment industry.