The tough times for Macau continue to cause executive stress in the Asian offshore gambling mecca, with the news that casino revenues fell for the third month, declining 5.8 percent from a year ago to 7.65 billion patacas.
Online gambling software developer Playtech plc has announced that it has completed the transaction with William Hill plc, as previously announced on 20 October, 2008 Avigur Zmora, who steered the William Hill transaction through its completion process will step down from his role as a director of the company with immediate effect, although he is …
UK interactive television gambling group NetPlay TV plc has hit the ground running in 2009 with the acquisitions of Venturygames.co.uk, and Toucanwin.com, the mobile gambling and skill gaming businesses of Info-download Limited, a subsidiary of Zed Worldwide, S.A (‘Zed’), a developer of entertainment and community products and services for mobile and the internet. Zed currently …
The continuing furore over online casino operator group Grand Prive axing it’s US affiliates but keeping their players could have a solution in store, according to a progress report this week from the head of the Casino Affiliate Program.com community, Lou Fabiano.
First it was the governor of Kentucky leaving his Attorney General out of the loop in organising the Great Online Gambling Domain Hi-jacking through outsourced lawyers; this week it’s Alabama’s governor doing his own thing in forming a gambling task force despite legal objections from his attorney general.
According to MacUpdate, software provider Gammonsoft’s latest version of its Absolute Backgammon product has all the bells and whistles, including voice control and a choice of skins.
The unprecedented negative impacts of the economy dominate the 2009 edition of the Top 21 Trends in Gaming, an annual list compiled by Spectrum Gaming.com, an independent research and professional services firm in the United States.
RMRoyal Media has launched a new no-download Rummy network under the name RummyRoyal.net.
The $300 million “settlement” and Wire Act guilty plea by Party Gaming co-founder Anurag Dikshit earlier this (December) month was discussed in an interesting article in the The Times over the holiday weekend, which suggested that his unilateral and independent move to clean the slate with the US Department of Justice may not have gone …
Concerned about possible federal deals on Internet gambling in World Trade Organisation negotiations, state legislators in Utah are pushing a resolution that urges Congress to ensure that states’ rights to make their own gambling laws are respected….and that means that online gambling will definitely be a non-starter in the state, reports the Salt Lake City …
A weakening U.S. economy and declining discretionary incomes are negatively impacting one source of government financing that had previously been widely regarded as recession-proof: lotteries, reports the Wall Street Journal this week.
Two Australian public figures – a charity campaigner and a politician – have lashed out at online betting exchange Betfair for advertising on Boxing Day on grounds that the material impinged on family interest subjects like cricket and were therefore dangerous to children and teenagers.
The incoming Obama Administration’s announcement that Eric Holder is to be appointed Attorney General of the United States may moderate expectations that the new president might take a more liberated approach to Internet gambling.
After months of anticipation, it looks as if the new year will at last see legalised online gambling in the Czech Republic.
Christmas arrived early for a New Zealand woman this year, or so she thought. The woman was playing a land slot in Dunedin, New Zealand when it briefly showed a $A 36 million jackot hit…but she then found the machine was faulty and she had really won only $A 420.
Achieving white listing status from the UK authorities that has enabled its licensees to advertise in the United Kingdom has proved to be a real advantage for the Caribbean island licensing jurisdiction of Antigua, reports local newspaper The Antigua Sun this week.
The giant search engine Google has claimed that its research has shown a rising popularity in Internet bingo across every age group and gender and is online poker’s most powerful rival yet.
Peak Entertainment, the well established parent company for SunPoker.com, Omni Casino and CSCasino.com, has announced that its move to the Playtech platform commenced December 19 is proceeding smoothly, and that existing players will continue to have access to its former Cryptologic software until January 15th 2009 to ensure a gradual changeover.
Gigamedia, the Taiwan-based parent of Everest Poker and Everest Gaming, has revealed that it has entered into a strategic partnership with the respected and well established Gibraltar-based land and online gambling company Victor Chandler International.
The online gambling affiliate marketer’s community website Casino Affiliate Programs.com has released details of its next conference, CAP Spring Break 2009, which it promises will be “…larger in scope and expectations than previous events.”
Online gamblers have another million dollar jackpot on offer following this week’s Real Time Gaming announcement that its Jackpot Pinatas progressive jackpot has moved over the million dollar level.
Reports from Redding, northern California tell of a local burglar who was not the sharpest knife in the drawer, having tried to gamble at two casinos using rare coins he had stolen in a burglary.
Two Vietnamese nationals, Nguyen Van Dinh and Nguyen Trieu Duc, both from Hanoi, have been arrested by officers of the Ministry of Public Security’s Criminal Police Department on allegations of organising gambling cruises between Vietnam and Cambodia.