Think back to 2005, when software providers and operators alike were intrigued by statements from the Irish budget airline Ryanair’s Michael O’Leary that it planned to introduce a passenger service with a difference – in-flight gambling.
The magnitude of Russia’s decision to confine all land gambling to four geographic areas away from main population centres like Moscow and St Petersburg was underlined this week by an article in the St. Petersburg Times.
BetStopper, the Nova Scotia Gaming Corporation’s program to combat underage gambling, will be powered by InternetSafety.com developed software, the company announced this week.
Playtech plc’s chief finance officer Shuki Barak has revealed that the software developer has some ambitious spending plans in its acquisition strategies, with a number of targets in mind that include an as yet unidentified marketing business which could be the subject of a $750 million takeover deal
Internet sales of UK National Lottery tickets have grown by 31.8 percent over the past decade to GBP 488.2 million, Camelot, which operates the lottery for the British government, reported last week.
The popular European online gambling group 32Red.com (motto ‘second to none’, geddit?) has signed up as official club sponsor for the Swansea City football club for the next two seasons.
The economic crisis throughout the world and in the United States in particular has created a heavy workload for Congressman Barney Frank’s House Financial Services Committee, and that unfortunately means that his latest attempt to regulate and licence online gambling in the United States will have to be put on hold until September, the politician’s …
Industry observers this week have been surprised by the apparent hypocrisy of the United States government in protesting to China about its erosion of Internet freedom and trade restrictions, when it is itself the subject of severe criticism for its double standards on Internet gambling, both in its laws and its activities at the World …
Server based gaming provider BetStone.com is to open a new office in Mexico City to better service its customer base in Mexico and across Latin America, the company announced this week.
Perhaps better known for its online poker operations, where it is fast making a name for itself, Chilli Gaming of Malta is moving into the online bingo sector, and has chosen Parlay Entertainment as the technology to support it.
The British Columbia Lottery Corporation in Vancouver, Canada has launched a new initiative aimed at promoting responsiblke gambling, branded “Game Sense”. The program will include extensive use of media and public service television advertisements.
The National Centre for Social Research, acting on behalf of the UK Gambling Commission has completed a study of 43 gamblers designed to “provide further insight into participants’ gambling behaviour” and, where relevant, “to explore the downsides of gambling”.
The British government’s Sports Minister, Gerry Sutcliffe, has reacted to fears regarding the danger of gambling corruption in sport by setting up an advisory panel headed by former Liverpool football chief executive Rick Parry, reports the Daily Telegraph.
The sophisticated software systems at major online betting exchange Betfair.com have again proved their value to the wider gambling industry by alerting tennis watchdog officials to suspicious betting action.
The Pennsylvania state legislature is considering a new law designed to better insulate public officials from gambling industry inducements, reports Business Week.
ESPN reports that a legal challenge based on the constitutionality of the 1992 Professional Amateur Sports Protection Act and lodged by New Jersey Senator Ray Lesniak earlier this year is to be supporter by the state’s governor, Jon Corzine.
The Interactive Media Entertainment & Gaming Association (iMEGA) has announced that its challenge to the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act in the form of an appeal action against the US Department of Justice has been set down for July 7th 2009 at 10.00 am, when arguments from the parties will be heard at the US …
Few in the affiliate marketing sector, or for that matter the online gambling industry in general, will be unfamiliar with the name of Debbee Silverman, a highly experienced and competent marketer who is a familiar face at major industry events.
The major British online and land gambling group William Hill plc could be getting a brand brush-up in the near future following the appointment of consultants Wolff Olins this week.
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.