Governor Steve Beshear of Kentucky – the politician who made an unprecedented (and so far unsuccessful) attempt to hijack the international domain names of online gambling companies last year – has suffered another defeat, this time at the hands of the Kentucky Senate.
According to reports in Ukra News the stand-off between Ukraine president Viktor Yuschenko and the opposition political party over the immediate closure of all gambling venues located in residential areas has ended in defeat for the president, who had earlier exercised his right of veto after the Verkhovna Rada voted for the new law on …
Virtue Fusion Alderney, the burgeoning supplier of Internet bingo solutions to several major online gambling groups, cracked the Best Bingo Software 2009 award at the annual Online Bingo Summit held June 16 at the Millennium Gloucester Hotel in London.
The Copenhagen Post newspaper in Denmark reports that the state gambling monopoly Danske Spil is to head a new organisation aimed at curbing corruption in European football. The newly-created monitoring body will seek to prevent match fixing by referees and players.
The chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, Democrat Congressman Barney Frank, said this week that the recent seizure of millions of dollars in online poker payments only strengthens his hand because it reminds voters and politicians how sweeping – and potentially unclear – the existing law is.
The dynamic interactive television gambling group NetPlayTV plc has it’s next venture lined up – an initiative aimed at exploiting more enlightened media guidelines in the UK by launching the first interactive gambling offering on UK terrestrial television.
Slotland.com has reported another big win on its Megaspin progressive, with player NYNYman collecting a check for $169 923, the fruit of an online gambling session taken to pass the time whilst he was off work with suspected ‘flu.
The BetonSports.com online gambling debacle was in the news again this week as the St. Louis Courier-Dispatch reported that the brother, sister and former personal assistant of Gary Kaplan, the founder of the now liquidated online gaming company, pleaded guilty Monday and agreed to forfeit millions of dollars in gambling profits.
The new live dealer casino operator Caribbean Casino and Gaming Corporation is interested in more than just Internet gambling, it appears.
Spider-Man, The Incredible Hulk, X-Men and other comic book heroes will be staying on with Internet gambling software developer CryptoLogic until 2013, the company announced this week, revealing that it has extended its exclusive licensing agreement with Marvel Entertainment, Inc., a relationship that has produced some of the company’s most popular and profitable games.
Clive Jones, the chairman of UK interactive television and internet gambling group NetPlayTV was not exaggerating this week when he described the company’s performance as “coming of age’. With turnover soaring 118 percent to GBP 19.8 million and EBITDA climbing 241 percent to GBP2.4 million, it seems that the company has upped its performance despite …
The UK operations of the IGT group have restructured mobile and internet gaming activities to better integrate the British division of online gambling software developer Wagerworks and the recently acquired Million-2-1 gaming mobile gambling operation.
The Malaysian deputy minister for federal territories, Datuk M. Saravanan has made the claim that almost 90 percent of cyber cafes in the capital city of Kuala Lumpur are taking part in illegal online gambling activities by including gambling software on their computers.
Malta’s Independent newspaper makes good weekend reading this week with an article by David Lindsay on the impact of US discriminatory laws against online gambling operators in licensing jurisdictions like Malta, Gibraltar and the UK, and to a lesser extent Ireland, Sweden, Cyprus and Austria.
An Irish civil action for libel that has been running since 2004 is still some way from conclusion, but its central issue will be of interest to all owners of Internet message boards, and reinforces the need for discipline to avoid some posters going too far, and for the timeous removal of defamatory third party …
Congressman Jim Moran, a Virginia Democrat, has introduced a legislative proposal aimed at investing federal financial resources in addictive gambling research and treament, according to The Hill blog.
In a sequel to the case of the missing Wilds in certain Top Game-developed gambling software games one of online gambling’s biggest information portals, Casinomeister.com, issued a warning to players as the week closed.
The Kentucky ‘appeal against an appeal’ case involving the state government of Kentucky and the Internet freedom group iMEGA entered what could be the final phase of a long and contentious legal issue this week as state legal representatives filed their response to an iMEGA brief submitted early this (June) month.
Ivobank, the dedicated gaming bank started by the Genting group, has announced that it has signed up Betsson, a prominent Scandinavian gaming company, as a new merchant.
Online gambling regulators in the Caribbean licensing jurisdiction of Antigua and Barbuda have long trumpeted their capabilities and the respect in which they are held internationally, even successfully fighting for inclusion on the UK’s advertising “white list”, but a banking scandal unfolding in the United States has the potential to impact the islanders, and one …
More detail is needed on a proposed Internet lottery project before the Thai government can give its approval, reports the Bangkok Post this week.
Alarming reports are accumulating across several Internet gambling message boards regarding what appears to be mysteriously missing Wild symbols on Top Game-powered video slots offered at Rome Casino.com.
Players on Cryptologic-powered online casinos will have the best Internet connection technology available to maximise their online gambling experience and ensure it is trouble free and enjoyable, according to a statement from the gambling software company this week.
The Dutch government may have set its face against online gambling in the Netherlands, but when it comes to welcoming the hard cash won at online operations, it appears to be quite happy for its citizens to bring it home.