Online gambling e-cash processor Neovia plc (Neteller) has confirmed the departure date for CEO Ron Martin as May 31st 2009.
Manila-based and First Cagayan licensed Haydock Sports has launched its Asian-facing Bodog88.com website, complete with a live dealer casino by Entertasia, and in English and Chinese language options.
Police spokesman in Malaysia have revealed that over last weekend numerous officers carried out 107 illegal gambling raids, many of them to stamp out Internet gambling, confiscating 417 computers and arresting 31 people, against whom investigations continue.
The UK Gambling Commission has the released the latest statistics in its “finger-on-the-pulse” series of research exercises, with ICM Research conducting the latest study of some 8 000 UK adult residents. The latest numbers cover the one year period ending March 2009.
The 3D online gambling games developer Betsoft Gaming has inked an agreement to provide eight 3D games in its Slots3 series to the ubercool Scandinavian-facing online casino Mr Green.com, voted by Internetworld the top Internet gambling website last year.
Live dealer provider Evolution Gaming has had to increase the size of its studio facilities in Riga, Latvia by a thousand square metres to handle growing business demand following a spate of new user contracts that has included Party Gaming and William Hill Online, the company reported this week.
Senate legislators in Illinois looking for cash to finance an ambitious state-wide construction program approved two gambling related measures this week along with other tax proposals.
Atlantic City’s 11 land casinos have reported first-quarter gross operating profits down 38 percent on the same period in 2008, an Associated Press report reveals.
Publicity earlier this month by the online gambling group Intertops, revealing that it was reentering the US market with a RealTime Gaming-powered online casino had industry observers speculating.
Greece’s international lottery specialist group Intralot has announced the successful achievement of a 6-year deal to supply the New Hampshire Lottery with a system for online games, its ninth such contract in the United States.
Online gamblers are being warned to be on the alert this week for fraudsters who have been trying to exploit the reputation of the major listed European online gambling group Bwin to leverage a criminal advantage over players.
Management at Casino Euro are gearing up to celebrate an important milestone for the five-year-old online casino and poker room as it closes in fast on its 500 000th customer registration.
TheStreet.com reports that persistent rumours of an acquisition deal being negotiated between PartyGaming and Gigamedia have heightened interest in the appointment of a new chairman at the Taiwan online gambling group, which owns the popular Everest Poker website and Funtown, the Internet’s largest Mahjong site.
The Reuters new service reports that a court in Newcastle, UK has convicted a restaurant worker for the brutal murder of a Chinese graduate couple last year over their part in an Internet betting issue.
Efforts by Irish bookmaking companies and associations to convince the government that moves to double gambling tax would endanger employment prospects and businesses in the sector were successful this week as the government relented.
Live sports data provider Enetpulse is to supplu a series of Internet fantasy sports games to the Danish state gambling monopoly Danske Spil under the terms of an agreement that will run for the next three years.
A little known online gambling software company, Galewinds Software Incorporated gave larger rivals a lesson in player-sensitivity this week by stepping in and paying an online player who had been jerked around by an online casino it powered for months.
Barriere Hotels and Casinos group’s recently launched 3D online casino, Le Croupier.com, has added a suite of instant-play games to its offering.
The Ukraine government’s abrupt ban yesterday on gambling other than in a specially delineated location has resulted in thousands of employees of gaming halls and casinos staging protest marches and demonstrations in the country’s capital, reports Reuters new service
E-Gaming Review reported exclusively this week that the UK’s Royal Bank of Scotland has recommended to its online gambling clients that they find another bank to service transactions from the Netherlands and Switzerland going forward.
The UK listed gambling group Rank plc has announced that its Mecca Bingo subsidiary is currently seeking a new managing director following the resignation to pursue other business interests of present incumbent Simon Wykes, who has expressed a wish to move on with immediate effect.
The Malaysian police maintained their active drive against illegal gambling this week with further raids in the Prangin area Monday, reports the Bernama press agency.
The American Gaming Association, a trade association representing the interests of US land gambling operators, has confirmed news reports of tough times for the industry by releasing annual statistics showing a decline in gambling revenues of $ 1.6 billion to $ 32.5 billion in full year 2008.
Party Casino.com has added 13 new games to its inventory, with the flagship release featuring a theme that is a musical slot tribute to legendary songster Frank Sinatra.