All Slots online casino in the Jackpot Factory online gambling group has launched a new web application which allows webmasters and iGoogle users to add a new blackjack game, hosted by the casino, to their websites for instant and download-free play.
Online payment specialist Ukash continued its quest to make online shopping available to everybody, anywhere in the world, this week with a significant global deal with ePay, a division of Euronet Worldwide, Inc. – a provider of payment services and technology – to make its online cash vouchers available in Italy for the first time.
An agreement for the provision of an online casino which was finalised last year between online gambling software provider Net Entertainment and Internet gambling group Sportingbet plc is about to come to fruition.
For reasons unknown at present, a Danish website that described its function as “scientific sports betting predictions” is to change its branding this week.
The major European-focused online gambling group Unibet plc has released half year figures to end June 2009, showing a positive trend that it attributed largely to its live betting facilities.
Sky Vegas, Sky’s UK online casino, reports a major win by local player L.A. last Tuesday when he scooped GBP 1 547 415.18 from a GBP 2,25 stake.
The Malta-registered online scratchcard developer Neogames has signed an agreement with People’s Postcode Lottery for charities in the UK, Sweden and Holland to provide a fully managed, white label scratch card website.
In an interesting article over the weekend the Wall Street Journal explored the impact of recession on the US gambling industry, and what states are doing to combat the accompanying drop in tax returns.
The Chinese new media mobile lottery operator VODone Limited has claimed some startlingly fast business development in its instant Internet broadcasting of lottery results and mobile lottery business, “Constant Lottery”.
The CEO of one of Australia’s biggest betting outfits, Elmer Funk Kupper of Tabcorp, wants the territorial governments to reform regulation and tax measures to create more revenue for the racing industry and and make it easier for companies such as his to compete with online offerings.
The proposal to take the Thai lottery online, bogged down for years by bureaucratic delays but recently left for public opinion to decide looks as if it could be a winner.
A sharp gambling operator identified only by the common Korean name ‘Kim’ and allegedly working out of the Venetian resort in the offshore gambling mecca of Macau held all the cards, a report in the Korea Herald reveals; in addition to accruing profits from the activities of his Korean gamblers, he made 1.25 percent on …
Kansas lery player Edward Williams (47) this week won a significant amount of money on the lottery – his second major win in a year, reports Earth Times.
The UK mainstream media were widely commenting on complaints that online lottery tickets purchased from some countries are being branded “illegal” and not paid out by the UK National Lottery operator Camelot.
Online gambling operators who make the mistake of initiating promotional and advertising moves before the French government is ready for them are in for a rude awakening, it appears from a report on Goal.com which surfaced this week.
Betting in Italy increased in July 2009 to push the value of bets up 12.25 percent in the first seven months of the year, reports the Reuters news agency, citing record-breaking lottery game numbers as an important contributory cause which has attracted new gamblers.
US real estate and media mogul (he is the publisher of the New York Daily News newspaper) Mortimer Zuckerman has suggested that online sportsbetting may help to save traditional newspapers in danger of failing as the result of the preference for television and Internet sources of today’s news followers.
The official Aston Villa football club website announced this week that the UK club has entered into a two year partnership agreement with online sportsbetting firm 188Bet.
The top professional sports leagues and the NCAA are clearly unhappy with Judge Gregory Sleet’s recent decision not to grant an injunction against Delaware’s implementation of legislation allowing sportsbetting lottery activity in the state.
A spokesman for Ladbrokes, which has challenged the Danish state gambling monopoly in the past, has indicated that the UK betting giant may be prepared to submit to regulation if the Scandinavian nation opens up its online gambling market.
The e-cash processor Neovia Financial plc issued a first-half 2009 trading update as the week closed, reporting the following highlights:
For the first time in over eight years, German online lottery firm Tipp24 AG has posted negative half-year earnings following the implementation of the monopolistic State Treaty On Gambling in Germany.
Eleven US individuals are named in a new anti-online sportsbetting indictment filed in New York this week by federal authorities.
The state of Delaware’s stand in approving sportsbetting legislation despite threats from the major US sports leagues appears to have triggered its first reaction.