William Hill plc, the UK’s biggest online and land bookmaker, launched a GBP 10 million football-oriented promotion Friday through a specially-created scratchcard campaign celebrating the end of the football season.
The Interactive Media Entertainment and Gaming Association (iMEGA) is up to speed on its two major legal actions against officials in two states overreaching their authority in actions against the online gambling industry.
The Illinois Senate rejected gambling expansion as the week ended that would have put casinos in Park City, Rockford and Chicago, reports the Chicago Tribune.
What is claimed to be the first professional online domino website is gathering momentum at Dominoes Stars.com, a site powered by download and instant proprietary software that includes full anti-collusion measures and is operated by the Boca Raton, Florida company P4SMedia.
Confirmed reports last week that the Royal Bank of Scotland was to eschew online gambling business in regard to the Dutch and Swiss gambling markets have presented an opportunity for its chief rival Barclays group…and it looks as if the enterprising banker will exploit it to the full.
We recently reported that various French gambling companies were manouevring for strong positioning when the French gambling liberalises early next year. Examples of companies involved in a number initiatives included the Cyberarts and NYX Interactive deals with state monopoly Francaise des Jeux for online poker and bingo respectively.
Six of the state of Kentucky’s racetracks showed an unprecedented united front this week at a joint press conference focused on the precarious state of racing in the heartland of US horseracing and to appeal for the legalisation of slot machines.
Another online gambler has found entertainment and wealth at Slotland subsidiary WinADay.com this week with the third six-figure win at the online gambling casino.
Earlier this month we reported on the intention of UK gambling group William Hill plc to extricate itself from Victoria Apuestas, a Spanish sportsbetting venture in which the British company partnered with the Codere group.
The release of the UK Gambling Commission’s latest edition of its ongoing Gambling Prevalence research has been followed by news that the UK National Lottery Commission has initiated an additional and independent study of possible underage gambling on the lottery.
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.