The treaty between German states banning online lottery operations continues to have a profoundly adverse impact on German lottery service provider Jaxx AG as the group struggles to reposition itself as a betting rather than a lotteries company.
The independent player protection and standards organisation eCOGRA has announced that Digitote, a provider of advanced sportsbetting software and ancillary web development and back office applications, has successfully achieved the required standards for its Certified Software accreditation seal.
Irish online and offline bookmaker Paddy Power has confirmed its deal with the French gambling monopoly Pari Mutuel Urbain (PMU) which will smooth its path into the liberalised French gambling market early 2010.
Sweden-based online casino Mr Green.com is probably still celebrating this (Thursday) morning after being voted top gambling website in Sweden on making it through to the finals.
Aideen Shortt, formerly the dynamic VP sales and marketing for Canadian online gambling software developer Chartwell Technology, has moved to Paddy Power subsidiary Airton Risk Management, a sporting risk business where she has been appointed an associate director. She joins a team that includes David Lyons and Rod O’Callaghan.
Renowned for its poker players, the Nordic country of Finland also appears to have more than its share of problem gamblers, which gives the lie to government claims that state monopolised gambling is safer than an open market.
The affiliate program Income Access issued a timely warning against the San Diego-based online gambling software group MahjongTime this week, citing ‘payment concerns.’
Two major legal battles against the Dutch penchant for state monopolised gambling start this week in the European Court of Justice.
The Times reports that Sir Richard Branson is to partner up with an unidentified investment company and the Dutch-owned People’s Postcode Lottery (PPL), in a bid for control of Camelot, the UK’s National Lottery operator. The consortium is reportedly interested in acquiring an eighty percent stake in the operator.
Kentucky’s major horseracing group, Churchill Downs Inc., has signed a $127 million agreement to purchase the Burbank, California-based online betting site Youbet.com.
CasperP of Copenhagen is one lucky Dane, having aced a Euro 264 667 jackpot on the Geisha Wonders slot at Bet24.com this week.
Net Entertainment’s glitzy 5-reel, 25-line progressive video slot Mega Fortune has created another instant multi-millionaire with a Euro 4 million jackpot hit by a Swedish payer.
Online bingo site Mecca Bingo.com has announced that one of its virtual players, ‘dreamer80’, took home a GBP 100 000 jackpot as part of the site’s Lucky Pink Box promotional campaign last week.
Politicians in the eastern European nation of Poland moved a step closer to implementation of severe gambling resrictions Tuesday when they approved a draft law proposed by Prime Minister Donald Tusk.
September ’09 numbers from the Nevada Gaming Control Board show winnings from gamblers at land casinos in the state declined in September for the 21st month in a row.
The newly introduced affiliate marketers’ association, the Gambling Affiliates Union, has announced the endorsement of its first affiliate program,
The US interactive marketing services provider GameLogic, Inc., has completed an integration initiative with the popular social networking site Facebook, claring the way for the use of its PlayAway, PlayerVantage and New Play suite of products. These programs extend GameLogic’s Internet player/database marketing platform to the rapidly growing world of social media.
888.com’s b2b subsidiary Dragonfish performed sufficiently well to limit a decline in Q3 revenues at the online gambling group, but Management still posted a drop of 10 percent compared to Q3, 2008.
Gambling in Europe contributed over Euro 3.4 billion to European Union sport, a new study commissioned by the Remote Gambling Association has found.
Online gambling software developer Playtech plc has appointed former hedge fund manager Ross Hawley to the newly created post of Head of Investor Relations.
Camelot, the operator of the UK lottery, has announced that the holders of the two winning tickets – each worth GBP 45.5 million – in Friday’s EuroMillions draw will be introduced to the media in London on Tuesday.
The Remote Gambling Association held its agm in London recently, and took the opportunity to unveil the latest study on the very significant contribution of the gambling sector to European Union sport.
In an op-ed article published this week in the Washington publication Roll Call, Representative Jared Polis (D-CO) argues that regulating Internet gambling in order to protect consumers and generate up to $42 billion in new revenue is a “sensible approach.”
The UK server based gaming supplier Inspired Gaming plc has issued a trading update claiming that its business has stabilised and recovered in the year to September 26 2009, following an “exceptionally difficult” 2008. The company also announced a capital reorganisation aimed at simplifying the capital structure and improving liquidity in the stock.