The international online betting firm Unibet has fired the Leo Burnett advertising agency in Sydney to drive its marketing efforts in the highly competitive Australian gambling market, where the company faces formidable rivals like Ladbrokes, Paddy Power and William Hill. Patrik Andersson, general manager of Unibet Australia, told the publication AdNews that the Australian betting …
The Sun Herald newspaper reports that Tilman Fertitta from the family that operates Station Casinos and The Golden Nugget, is less than optimistic on the immediate commercial promise of online gambling. Addressing the Southern Gaming Summit Wednesday, Fertitta revealed that his company is losing $6 million to $7 million a year on Internet gambling in …
In his crusade against online gambling, multi-billionaire land casino mogul Sheldon Adelson is deploying a state-level political network he has been quietly developing over the past few years through extensive political donations, according to a report Wednesday in the Washington Post. In addition to the widely known $90 million he poured into Republican Party and …
The much-anticipated independent report on gambling in Pennsylvania was presented to state lawmakers Wednesday by Econsult, the specialist company engaged to conduct the review….and its findings are likely to give the argument for legalised online gambling in the state a boost. Econsult found that licensed and regulated internet gambling, possibly through the state’s existing licensed …
NEW SLOT FROM RIVAL Classic slot set to a French food theme Rival Gaming’s latest offering is a classic 3-reel, 1-payline slot titled “Red, White & Bleu”. The French food-themed game features BAR, 7’s, red and white grapes, blue cheese and French flag icons with a max bet jackpot award of 50 000 coins.
GTECH S.p.A. subsidiary Gtech Global Services Corporation has been awarded a 10-year online gaming system, terminals and integration contract to provide end-to-end services for the National Lottery of Belgium (NLB) following a competitive procurement process. Gtech will provide the NLB with secure gaming technology, performance driven services, and an integrated business environment. “This award is …
A report commissioned by the Pennsylvania General Assembly Joint Budget and Finance Committee in December 2013 was released this week identifying iGaming as the biggest potential source of revenue for the State. The findings forecast that iGaming could yield $184 million in the first year and $307 million the next with direct tax revenues estimated …
Betfair Head of Mobile Sylvie McDermott has been named product management director, a newly created position reporting to recently appointed chief operating officer Mark Brooker. McDermott will lead operations across all Betfair products, from maintenance to delivery, the first of which will be streamlining Betfair’s mobile portfolio.
GSN Games launched its latest social slot within its Games by GSN Facebook app. The Egypt-themed “Treasures of Cleopatra” is player customisable, allowing a choice of the number of active lines and amount bet per line. Features include Wild and bonus tiles across the games five reels.
Irish bookmaker BoyleSports has agreed to an initial three-year Irish Greyhound Derby sponsorship deal with the Irish Greyhound Board (IGB). Boylesports becomes the IGB’s official betting partner throughout the contract and will continue its support of the Race of Champions at Kingdom Stadium, Tralee. John Boyle, owner of BoyleSports said: “Every year we examine ways …
NetPlayTV, the British interactive television and internet gambling group, has announced that trading has had a strong start in Q2 2014 with average daily net revenue up by 17 percent versus Q2 2013, and that its brand SuperCasino.com will be the headline sponsor of both Big Brother and Celebrity Big Brother summer 2014 for a …
With additional government taxation, point of consumption regulations on internet gambling, restrictions on betting limits and retail betting shop locations, it’s been a depressing couple of months for UK online bookmaking companies, but British Premier League football clubs could be feeling the impact as well, according to a report in the Financial Times. In an …
Czech betting company Fortuna Entertainment Group posted a 17 percent drop in EBITDA in the first quarter due to unfavourable sporting results in January, the Central European fixed-odds betting operator revealed this week in posting its unaudited consolidated results for the first quarter of 2014. EBITDA fell to Euro 9.4 million ($13.10 million) from Euro …
How do you combine the most exciting elements of poker and dice to develop a truly unusual online gambling game? The publication VentureBeat reports that this disparate combination has been achieved by “… 57-year-old Carmelyn Calvert, an empty-nest grandmother in rural Illinois.” Calvert loves games and had a great idea…put an entire deck of 54 …
Our readers may recall the beta-launch last year of online gambling group Paddy Power’s Facebook-based real-money sportsbook titled Paddy Power In-Play, which was withdrawn after a brief test period when the gambling group assessed that further development was required. Since then the company’s technical and marketing teams have been hard at work it appears, changing …
The Isle of Man headquartered Continent 8 Technologies has announced the launch of its suite of hosting and managed service offerings to the New Jersey market …the company’s tenth data centre offering worldwide. From the new data centre in Atlantic City, Continent 8 now supplies a full range of offerings to the market. As with …
Sheldon Adelson’s jihad against legalised online gambling in the United States took another blow this week when the Competitive Enterprise Institute, an independent libertarian body, attacked the Graham-Chaffetz banning bills as heavy handed proposals that trample on states’ rights and the rights of individual citizens to make choices. Reporting on the CEI opposition, the Washington …
Minnesota lawmakers in the state House may not like the state lottery’s foray into online offers without their permission (see previous reports) but they are not inclined to ban the new genre, a choice they demonstrated Tuesday in voting against a Senate-proposed ban. That’s not to say that the issue will not resurface at some …
The latest online slot from the Swedish online gambling software developer Net Entertainment is a 5-reel, 20-line (fixed) game titled The Wish Master. With a backdrop based on the popular genie-in-a-lamp Aladdin theme, the new slot includes a themed main feature in which the Wish Master genie escapes from its lamp whenever a Scatter appears, …
Jonathan Adelman, Ladbrokes’ legal counsel and company secretary has left the company. He is succeeded by former deputy Annabel Bannerman who took over the role from April 2014. Adelman led two comprehensive reviews of Ladbrokes’ external legal panels during his tenure. He reduced the number of external legal firms used by the UK bookmaker from …
Veteran Michael Sullivan has stepped down as chief executive officer of William Hill Australia-owned Sportingbet.com.au after more than a decade (see previous reports). According to a joint statement, “It was always agreed that we would mutually review the situation after the first year and having overseen the integration, both William Hill and Michael believe the …
Prime Gaming-owned online gaming site Prime Slots will move to a new HTML 5 version providing customers with enhanced play across a range of devices, including desktop computers, tablets and smartphones. “We know our players use many devices to play online games, including mobile and handheld devices and tablets. With the new format our games …
Italian operator The Hit Group will offer mobile and online live roulette to the Italian public following a deal with live gaming provider Medialivecasino. Live roulette table games will be directly transmitted from the Perla, Casino & Hotel from Nova Gorica 24/7 on hitstars.it from next month. The expansion into the online market was precipitated …
CashBet officially launched its proprietary real-money eGambling platform in the UK market today (Tuesday) under an Alderney Gambling Control Commission licence. A recent deal between CashBet and mobile developer Gamzio (see previous report) was also realised with the launch of Gamzio’s “Casino Island Adventure”, the first game to go live on the platform. CashBet is …