The Remote Gaming Association, a body that represents the interests of most of Europe’s major Internet gambling companies, this week ramped up the pressure on US representatives at the World Trade Organisation, calling on the European Commission to take the “necessary next steps” to protect European Union interests from WTO-violating, retroactive and discriminatory enforcement by …
The Financial Times speculation earlier this week that Party Gaming co-founder Anurag Dikshit (37) had made a $300 million deal with the US Department of Justice was proved correct when the billionaire gambling IT whiz appeared in the Southern District of New York court Tuesday afternoon, pleading guilty to a single charge under the 1961 …
The Gibraltar-based Internet gambling group Party Gaming plc has responded to a Financial Times report that founder Anurag Dikshit may be appearing in a US court on a Wire Act guilty plea later today . In a statement, the company reiterated that it remains in negotiations with the US Justice Department aimed at wiping the …
It did not take long for Scandinavian and other online gambling companies to react to the publication of a Swedish commission report on loosening the stranglehold that the Svenska Spel state monopoly has on Swedish gambling. Criticism of the recommendations came almost immediately, aimed mainly at the suggestion that only sportsbetting should be liberated.
Anurag Dikshit, one of the four founders, and a 27 percent shareholder in the Gibraltar-based Internet gambling giant Party Gaming.com, is believed to have agreed to plead guilty to a charge relating to taking US wagers over the Internet pre-2006, according to reports in the Financial Times and TheTimesOnline. Dikshit has apparently agreed to pay …
Sweden’s state-owned Svenska Spel gambling monopoly may find itself at the centre of some dramatic policy changes if the authorities accept the recommendations of a public commission appointed to study and report back on the subject.
The major Vienna-listed online gambling group Bwin and the Division on Addictions at the Cambridge Health Alliance, a Harvard Medical School Teaching Affiliate, have signed an agreement for research collaboration for five years.
The Dublin-based Internet gambling software developer CryptoLogic Limited has inked a strategic partnership deal with Orbis Technology Limited, a provider of interactive gaming and betting solutions. The agreement makes CryptoLogic’s top performing games available to the gaming brands in Orbis’ portfolio of customers through Orbis’ Fixed Odds Games (FOG) platform.
The Gibraltar-based online gambling group 888.com has announced the imminent launch of three new bingo networks for third parties, and six white label partners in a marked acceleration of its bingo expansion strategy. The new operations will boost 888 bingo networks to ten in all, including Mirror Bingo, Foxy Bingo, and Wink Bingo.
The Remote Gaming Association, a UK trade body which numbers most of the major online gambling groups among its members, has revealed that it has lodged a formal complaint with the European Surveillance Agency on the proposed Norwegian legislation aimed at creating a Nordic UIGEA.
Union of European Football Associations president Michel Platini has some pretty strong views about the impact of betting on sports, which he voiced on Friday in Athens when he urged European lawmakers to use the EU bloc-wide liberalisation of gambling to protect football from illegal betting syndicates – especially those from Asia.
Pretty much as expected, there was no immediate decision Friday on the iMEGA and IGC vs. Kentucky state hearing in the Kentucky Appeals Court in Louisville…but the good news is that almost all of those present felt that the three judges hearing the case were very well prepared, asked many pertinent and probing questions, and …
Internet gambling operator BackgammonMasters.com has launched two additional proprietary software-powered games in its All-in-One Game Lobby. The games are a single deck, multi-handed Blackjack variant and “Deuces Wild” video poker game.
The Chinese goavernment’s drive against illegal gambling focused on the major urban and industrial city of Shanghai this week, with the Shanghai Daily newspaper reporting the arrest of over 500 persons alleged to be either gamblers or operators of illegal gambling facilities.
Veteran online gambling entrepreneur and businessman Mark Blandford, who founded Sportingbet among other successful ventures, is to join the board of China-facing World Sports Network following a first institutional round of venture funding from his Valhalla Investments Inc., an Alderney based venture capital investor specialising in the leisure sector.
Online slot players have a new game from Wagerworks to try out this week, branded Lil’ Lady.
An agreement signed in July this year to provide a complete new online casino came to fruition this week with the launch of Victor Chandler International’s new Net Entertainment-powered Victor Chandler Casino.com. The Swedish provider’s popular Casino Module system forms the heart of the system.
Tomorrow, Friday 12 December, is a date keenly anticipated by the industry and media alike, hopeful that some sense will emerge from a Kentucky state government claim that it has the right to seize and control domain names belonging to online gambling operators around the world.
The Gambling Portal Webmasters Association, a professional community comprised of online gambling affiliate webmasters, reached a new milestone this week with the presentation of its 600th “GPWA Seal of Approval” to a member.
The respected English language newspaper AM Costa Rica has speculated that the 36-year-old American arrested in the region this week on 450 charges of fraud is believed to be Jeff Pearson, alleged by various online gambling forums to be a former online casino operator with a shady reputation.
Several hospitality and entertainment publications are commenting on the latest US casino resort statistics released this week, with one report complaining that the Vegas crowds were evident…but they were not spending at previous levels.
The Montreal-based online gambling affiliate program Income Access has found a way to amass knowledge and benefit charity at the same time with its latest affiliate survey. The company has introduced a new study designed to collect information on Internet gambling affiliates and their preferences, the results of which will be made available free to …
The new Los Gatos, California-based betting website Bet Against Me.com seems to be walking a US legal tightrope with a mix of betting exchange and the “private club” concept favoured by several American online poker sites like WPT Club recently.
Although full details are still sketchy, it is apparent that the Norwegian parliament this week voted for a proposal to legislate for a ban on Internet gambling financial transactions similar to that imposed by the United States in its now infamous Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act 2006.