UK gambling firm Betfred has become the official betting partner of The Crabbie’s Grand National Festival, due to be held in April 2014 at Aintree. Betfred will sponsor three races in the three-year deal – The Betfred Bowl Steeple Chase on Grand Opening Day, The Betfred Mobile Mildmay Novices’ Steeple Chase on Ladies Day and …
Casual games developer Big Fish has released its latest social slot titled “Fate’s Fortune”. The slot is themed on the mysteriousness of old New Orleans and features scatters, free spins, free tickets and free gold or chips. Fate’s Fortune allows for cross-platform play across iOS and Android devices, PC and Facebook.
Malta, as a prominent licensing and regulatory jurisdiction for online gambling operators, is to introduce a Responsible Gambling Foundation, the Times of Malta reports. Announcing the advent of the Foundation, Malta’s Parliamentary Secretary for Competitiveness and Economic Growth, Edward Zammit Lewis said that although problem gambling percentages were low, the issue is always one serious …
Adrian Parkinson’s anti FOBT action group Campaign for Fair Gambling launched a new wave of negative publicity on Fixed Odds Betting Terminals last week, apparently unimpressed with industry moves to tighten restrictions on use following extensive media and political comment – much of it flowing from an earlier CFG release of statistics. The action group …
Teddy Sagi, the Israeli businessman and billionaire who founded Playtech, and recently sold off a chunk of his stock in that company has a new product lined up for a $100 million I.P.O. in London, according to a report in the Financial Times over the weekend. The entrepreneur’s latest project is a digital wallet branded …
In a sequel to its popular Gold Diggers 3D slot, online and mobile games developer BetSoft has launched More Gold Diggin’ in both desktop and mobile formats, the latter under its ToGo mobile brand. The latest iteration of the 5 reel, 25 line game reintroduces miners Jeb and Cletus as they work hard to find …
Online gambling technology and content provider Playtech, and its licensee the UK-based Ladbrokes online and land gambling group, have announced the launch of Live Games across both online casino desktop and mobile channels. The launch enables Ladbrokes to distribute all of Playtech’s Live Games, across all platforms. The mobile platform will feature both HTML5 and …
The Warrington Wolves rugby Super League team in Britain has signed a one-year exclusive betting partner contract with Ireland’s Betbright online gambling group. The agreement requires Betbright to provide a Wolves-branded betting site for use by the team’s supporters, and the betting company will run a series of online promotional offers. The club will also …
Following a two year investigation based on information from Canada’s Organised Crime Enforcement Bureau, provincial police in Ontario arrested eleven people and executed search warrants at five residential premises and four cars this week on 43 charges that include online gambling, drugs and illegal weapons. At a press conference in Toronto Friday provincial and local …
A Millstone, New Jersey online punter harvested the biggest jackpot yet in the state’s newly legalised online gambling market this week, hitting a $84,300 windfall on IGT’s “Monoloply Level Up Plus” slot. Reporting on the big win, the Star Ledger newspaper said that the man, who scored the big hit at the Borgata online casino, …
New research from the independent research firm Roy Morgan Gambling Monitor claims that in 2013 over 3.5 million Australians aged over 18 placed a bet of some kind… and 21 percent of them – or 758,000 people – did so online. This represents a substantial increase from three years ago, when online punters made up …
The Canbet issue reported last month appears to be going from bad to worse, with new revelations flowing from extensive Australian media coverage, and one of the company’s Australian-based directors revealing that there are no plans to revive the company. Among the fresh allegations are claims that the betting company took wagers illegally on certain …
Gibraltar-based online gambling group 32Red.com has posted another strong annual performance for the fourth consecutive year, reporting record revenues and EBITDA. Highlights of the report include: * Total gross gaming revenue up 21 percent year-on-year at GBP 38.8 million; * Online casino GGR up 19 percent y-o-y at GBP 35.6 million; * Increase of 24 …
Joanne Sharp, a 28-year-old parish clerk and mother of three in the UK with a penchant for online gambling, was jailed for 12 months this week for plundering the bank account of the council for which she worked. Prosecutors at the Peterborough Crown Court adduced evidence showing that Sharp helped herself to GBP 65,000 of …
Municipal police in Subang Jaya, a city in the Selangor province of Malaysia, raided six premises Thursday, seizing a total of 223 computers allegedly used for illegal online gambling activities. The coordinated raiding operation involved 53 officers and commenced mid-afternoon, and a police spokesman told the press that in four instances forcibly entry had to …
Scientific Games Corporation reported Thursday that it has inked a new contract with the North Dakota Lottery to implement and operate an online lottery system, and to provide a range of services and marketing support, along with its Sciplay interactive platform, which includes systems for internet subscriptions, player registration and player rewards programs. Scientific Games …
NextGen Gaming, the Australian-based slots studio of NYX Gaming Group, has launched the first of a series of online slots slots titles – Foxin’ Wins and Irish Eyes 2 – on William Hill’s Vegas tab in both HTML5 & Flash. The licensing agreement covers both mobile and desktop games from the NextGen Gaming and Aristocrat …
Our readers will recall the very firm refusal by British ISP companies to cooperate in any attempt by the government to impose blocks on unlicensed internet gambling sites when its new point-of-consumption laws come into force at the end of the year. It appears from reports this week that the country’s financial institutions have no …
Fortuna Entertainment Group, a Czech-facing online and land betting company has posted results better than analyst expectations of Euro 14.3 million, with net profit up 26.4 percent over the year to Euro 15.6 million, boosted significantly by online gambling operations. The Reuters news agency reports that total amounts staked were also better than expectations, rising …
The House of Lords debate this week on the new point-of-consumption British licensing and taxation law (see previous reports) has produced a suggested amendment that, if approved at subsequent readings, could have serious additional financial implications for companies that licence in the UK. Pushed by Lord Gardiner, the amendment seeks to use government legislation to …
The Spanish regulator Dirección General de Ordenación del Juego’s latest numbers indicate a 15.6 percent quarter-on-quarter improvement in revenues in this now notoriously sluggish and heavily taxed online gambling market…but the results still lag behind those achieved a year ago. Q4 revenues reached just under Euro 60 million, 2.5 percent lower than the comparative period …
Speaking to reporters following the publication of the company’s latest results (see previous reports), Paddy Power chief exec Patrick Kennedy said he wants to enter new markets overseas and offer more services in countries such as Australia and Italy if some types of online betting are made legal in those markets. However, he would not …
Boyd Gaming, the New Jersey company that owns the Borgata, has posted a disappointing result for the casino resort’s fiscal fourth quarter, reporting total revenues of $157 million, including $2.2 million from online gambling – a 6.5 percent increase on Q4:2012, although in the comparative period the casino had to contend with major interruptions from …
The Quezon City Council in the Philippines is currently reviewing a proposal that calls for greater regulation and control of online gambling and bingo games, including those held in carnivals and those for charitable causes. The Inquirer.net newspaper reports that the proposal – the work of councillors Jesus Manuel Suntay and Godofredo Liban – is …