The legalisation of sportsbetting in Delaware successfully passed through its final stages into law this week as the Delaware Supreme Court ruled that the legislation does not conflict with the state constitution, paving the way for Delaware to become the only state east of the Rocky Mountains to allow wagering on the outcome of games.
The giant satellite channel Eurosport is to launch an online betting service after being granted an Alderney e-gambling licence.
The Greek OPAP company, which has a contentious state monopoly in the country’s gambling industry, has posted a positive Q1 2009, with revenues and net profits both up.
The blog at Reason.com provided some interesting reading on the impact of U.S. online gambling legalisation this week, airing some previously unpublished views by gambling law expert Prof. I. Nelson Rose, whom it quoted as saying: “…the federal government will end up doing nothing, except for a little unnecessary duplication of effort to make it …
The Interactive Media Entertainment & Gaming Association (iMEGA) has submitted its brief to the Kentucky State Supreme Court in good time for the June 1st deadline for submissions, in its opposition to an attempt by Gov. Steven Beshear to seize the rights to 141 Internet domain names.
The affiliate marketing program Income Access has released the details of another innovative study it has conducted, this one on affiliate preferences and demographics.
The Asia-facing online gambling group AsianLogic plc, which was accepted on to the London AIM stock exchange at the end of 2007, plans to delist as soon as it has the approval of 75 percent of its shareholders, the company announced this week.
The French media are reporting that Mangas Gaming, which owns important European Internet gambling operations such as Betclick, Bet-at-Home and Expekt has appointed Nicolas Béraud as chief operating officer of the group, and Juliette de la Noue as head of corporate and social responsibility.
A retired Australian grandmother residing in the New South Wales province had the last laugh on a doubting husband when she decided to check out a four year old Powerball ticket the couple found in a drawer during a clean-out.
According to reports in journals and information sites such as dslreports.com, Minnesota’s Department of Public Safety may have bitten off rather more than it can chew in ordering 11 ISPs in the state to block an inaccurate and badly researched list of 200 online gambling websites from subscribers resident in the American state.
The Straits Times reports that Singapore police raided the land base of an Internet sports gambling ring as the week commenced, arresting 10 men and confiscating cash and computer-related property.
The Australian arm of the international gambling group Intralot had the embarrassment of being slapped with a A$30 000 fine by the Victorian state government this week for failing to run a televised bingo game as promised, reports the Australian newspaper TheAge.
One of Australian online sportsbetting group Centrebet’s prime acquisition targets for the past few months, International All Sports, is off the list following Paddy Power’s successful bid to gain a major interest in the company through Sportsbet, and Centrebet is now looking elsewhere, the company announced this week.
The chief executive of Nordicbet.com, Per Helberg, announced a strategic move for his company this week as it expanded beyond its usual Baltic and Scandinavian markets and moved into Poland.
The Australian government is still wrestling with its attempt to censor the Internet and the huge domestic and international outcry it has generated.
The Greek state gambling monopoly OPAP’s involvement of local police to shut down gambling group Stanleybet International’s new Greek retail betting shops late last year has seen a sequel this week.
Congressman Barney Frank’s latest attempt to scupper the UIGEA, his Internet Gambling Regulation, Consumer Protection, and Enforcement Act, HR2267 is gathering momentum following its launch earlier this (May) month.
Giving an example of media coverage and claims unsupported by facts this week, the Finnish website YLE.fi claimed that online gambling may be surpassing unemployment as a common cause of private financial difficulties.
HVS International reports that Macau’s casino revenues recorded approximately $1 billion in April 2009, or a 9 percent decline from a year ago and 13 percent decline from March 2009.
The younger generations may dominate Internet wagering, but when it comes to the land industry the silver foxes rule, according to a new survey by specialist US research company Ypartnership commissioned by slot machine manufacturer WMS Industries.
The UK Internet skill-game developer GameAccount has signed a licensing agreement with video game publisher Eidos Interactive to develop online person-to-person skill-based games based on three of Eidos’s game franchises; Championship Manager, Kane & Lynch: Dead Men and Battlestations: Pacific in non-US markets.
Last week’s demonstrations by gambling operators protesting the unilateral parliamentary ban on all gambling in the Ukraine seem to have had the desired effect, with President Viktor Yuschenko stepping in to calm the situation.
One of online gambling’s most implacable foes – the US National Football League – came under fire from Associated Press over the weekend for its latest moves to increase revenues for owners.
Online gambling websites may be among the many affected by an attempt to impose a total online gaming ban by a Thai criminal court following the suicide of a 12-year-ol boy last week.