Bodog online gambling group founder Calvin Ayre, whom unconfirmed reports suggest is now involved in a new Asian gambling venture apparently has no need for his luxurious double-volume Vancouver apartment, which has gone on sale, reports the Vancouver Sun newspaper.
An elderly lottery addict called Chang, who lives in the southern Taiwan city of Kaohsiung has fallen prey to fraudulent lottery scams 11 times in two years, reports Earth Times.
The US recession and its consequences for consumer discretionary spending has continued to hammer land casino operations in Atlantic City.
Mangas Gaming’s major online gambling subsidiary Betclick.com has renewed its CasinoModule license from Net Entertainment for a further three years in an expression of confidence in the online casino turnkey system and its wide inventory of games.
An announcement by iGaming Business this week constitutes an important step in defusing some of the robust competitive activity and alleged predatory marketing practices in the affiliate conference space.
The affiliate marketing-oriented dispute over who has control of Casino Affiliate Programs surfaced again this week when competitor and chief exposer Gambling Portal Webmasters Association published seperate interviews with the two principle characters involved in the troubled companies, CEO Warren Jolly and isolated founder and President Lou Fabiano.
A new $200 million land casino in Shelbyville, Indiana has agreed to pull an advert featuring a faux President Obama “out of respect for the White House,” reports Fox News, MSNBC and The American Reporter this week.
Party Gaming plc may have started out as a primarily online poker destination, but the performance of this sector of its wider group activities was disappointing last year, judged by the 2008 full year financials released this week.
The Philippines, long perceived as an enlightened haven for online gambling and home to PAGCOR, the First Cagayuan licencing jurisdiction and a freeport, is the unlikely location for the latest attempt to ban Internet gambling.
The economic recession continues to weigh heavily on land gambling companies in Nevada, according to the latest official figures reported by Associated Press this week.
The British Columbia Lottery Corporation has nabbed at least eight lottery ticket retailers ripping off customers over the last two years, albeit for relatively small amounts, reports The Vancouver Sun this week. In one case, an employee pre-scratched more than 100 scratch-and-win tickets before putting them up for sale, but was caught and fired.
Spread betting firm IG Group has reported a 35 percent decline in share price, which it claims is the result of the extreme volatility in the markets.
Cheaters and bot operators beware – the Israeli software developer Cognisafe claims that its new Pitboss product provides online casinos and poker rooms with a potent new anti-collusion tool effective against online bots, online advisors and software cheats.
After extensive debate and over 400 amendments, European Parliamentarians voted to adopt an ‘own initiative report’ by Danish Socialist MEP Christel Schaldemose on Monday.
The giant Italian online gambling group Cogetech SpA has signed an agreement with UK firm GameAccount for the supply of skill games for its horse racing and sports betting website Mistertoto.it
Russia’s ban on land casinos in its main cities, effective July 1st this year, has presented operators with some tough decisions.
The idea of keeping businessmen charged with online gambling related offences in custody for over two years without trial beggars the imagination, yet that is what has happened to two former executives of the now moribund but once thriving online gambling group BetonSports.com
US President Barack Obama’s nomination for US Trade Representative, former Dallas mayor Ron Kirk, has made an encouraging first impression, telling Senate confirmation hearings considering his appointment that he will push for strict enforcement of global trade rules.
The chief executive officer of the UK-based Remote Gambling Association, Clive Hawkswood, was in bullish mood during an interview this week with the Reuters news agency, predicting that European gambling groups should return an average growth of ten percent in 2009.
The latest survey of the German Internet scene by the independent digital measurement company comScore, Inc., ranks the largest and fastest-growing Internet properties in the country during the past year, and reports that the total German Internet audience in January 2009 grew 11 percent compared to January 2008, reaching a total of some 37.6 million …
The popular UK online gambling casino public company 32Red plc has reported a good set of results in a trading update for the year ended 31 December 2008, with significant growth during the year featuring total gaming revenues of GBP13.0 million, an increase of 27 percent on 2008.
Italian gambling group Lottomatica SpA increased sports bets significantly in February compared with January 2009, experiencing a 17 percent increase in bets that took totals for the month to Euro 58 million, and giving the firm a 15.2 percent market share, Agipro News agency reports.
The trend toward hip young players gravitating to bingo in Europe is also being experienced in the United States, aided by a cool ambience, amusingly sexy calls, exotic booze and in-your-face advertising on the theme “Not Your Grandma’s Bingo,” reports the Miami Herald this week.
Online gambling group Party Gaming plc has signed an exclusive white label agreement with the London-listed direct marketing company DM plc to provide online bingo and casino facilities. DM specialises in customer recruitment and database management in the UK.