Betfair Plc has named Paul Cutter as its new chief technology officer, succeeding Tony McAlister. Cutter, the former Director of Software Engineering at BSkyB, joined the firm this month and is tasked with leading Betfair’s integration and technical alignment projects as well as involvement in new product innovations. He is credited with transforming Sky’s digital …
Amaya Gaming Group Inc. has closed its 100 percent equity acquisition of Diamond Game Enterprises, a designer and manufacturer of gaming products for the casino gaming and lottery industries. Amaya paid US$18 million on closing of the Transaction from cash on hand with a US$7 million holdback for certain contingent liabilities and other items. “We’re …
Wellington Webb, Blanche Lincoln and George Pataki – the fronts for Sheldon Adelson’s Coalition to Stop Internet Gambling (CSIG) have again been taken to task by media on the hyperbole and questionable statements made in promoting a ban on US internet gambling. The respected Las Vegas Review Journal reported on the repetitive language used by …
A former financial employee of “Out” – a gay rights non-profit organisation in South Africa – who had earlier been convicted of plundering her employer’s funds to go online gambling at un-named internet sites has been ordered by the High Court in Pretoria to repay the organisation, according to reports in the Saturday Citizen newspaper. …
Britain’s proposed secondary licensing and taxation law, based on gambling point-of-consumption and due for implementation at the end of this year, has come in for further criticism, this time from the head of the Gibraltar Betting and Gaming Association, a trade body representing the interests of online gambling companies based in Gibraltar. In an op-ed …
Although it’s taken over a year since the announcement that Spanish online gambling operators would be allowed to offer slot action, the regulatory and legislative system is at last making some progress. In the most recent news from the Dirección General de Ordenación del Juego (DGOJ) it appears that the regulator will be submitting its …
Former Congresswoman and chair of the House Commerce Subcommittee on Trade and a member of the Subcommittee on Technology, Mary Bono entered the fray on calls for a ban on internet gambling this week, writing an op-ed piece in the Washington DC publication Roll Call that was subsequently picked up by other political newspapers. A …
When the Dutch government legalises and regulates online gambling next year it will have in place an impressive array of measures designed to make life decidedly uncomfortable for unlicensed operators seeking to access the Dutch online punter. The Dutch Gaming Authority has already handed out some heavy fines but will have an armoury of further …
The Dutch-facing Kroon online casino, which recently featured in an acquisition deal in which it and sister Oranje Casino were taken over by Betsson in a potentially Euro 145 million agreement has signed up for BetSoft online games. A BetSoft spokesman said Friday that the suite of games will include the company’s Slots3 series, and …
The popular Gibraltar-based online casino operator 32Red plc is to hire a professional media planning agency to better deploy its planned GBP 6 billion marketing budget for 2014. M.i. Media has been selected to replace in-house resources for the key role in the company’s marketing initiatives as it strives to maintain and extend its influence …
Full Tilt Poker, which recently augmented its poker-only site with a suite of online casino games from Leander Games, is to further diversify with the addition of sportsbetting facilities, parent company The Rational Group confirmed this week. 2015 is the current target date for the new venture, and the company is currently exploring partnership possibilities …
Following reportedly lengthy negotiations, Caesars Interactive Entertainment’s social gaming subsidiary Playtika is about to close an acquisition deal with social games developer Pacific Interactive, perhaps best known for its popular social game House of Fun. Founded in 2010, Playtika is believed to command a 15 percent market share in social gaming, and was itself acquired …
In the latest online gambling prevalence study conducted by independent researchers at the behest of the UK Gambling Commission, the numbers show that contrary to some claims of internet gambling soaring and becoming a social problem, the number of Brits using the internet and mobile devices to gamble has actually declined year-on-year by 2 percent. …
Nevada journo Jon Ralston was at Sheldon Adelson’s much hyped press conference this week, called to unveil the 39 mainly religious and conservative organisations supporting his drive to get online gambling banned via a revamped Wire Act. The publication Ralston Reports lists the organisations here: http://www.ralstonreports.com/blog/adelsons-anti-web-gaming-coalition-announces-list-backers#.UvxfEbBWEcM But, as Ralston notes, alliances with this sort of …
Fredrik Elmqvist’s Swedish online gambling games provider Yggdrasil Gaming has signed a licensing agreement with LeoVegas.com to supply the online and mobile casino operator with its entire 23-game lottery and casino games portfolio. The agreement includes regular releases of new game offerings in genres that embrace lottery and instant lotto products, slot, keno, mobile and …
The partnership between Seattle social games provider Big Fish Gaming and UK-licensed Betable appears to have expired with no sign of renewal, leading to the removal of the Big Fish Casino real-money app from Apple’s UK Store, according to a Gaming Intelligence report. Betable, a company that facilitates the operation of real-money social gaming in …
Peter Lord and Graeme White, reportedly two Australian-based directors of the Canbet online sports book, could be facing lawsuits as angry and frustrated punters try to recover their account balances, allegedly frozen for the past three months due to the company finding itself in financial difficulties. The UK-licensed sports book said earlier this year that …
Going into the fourth day of downtime after hackers disabled websites belonging to Sheldon Adelson’s Las Vegas Sands land gambling group, Associated Press reports that there are fears that customer credit card data may have been accessed in the hack . Nevada Gaming Control Board chairman A.G. Burnett told the news agency late Thursday that …
Swedish online gambling software provider Net Entertainment has posted its Q4-2013 and FY 2013 report, claiming that investments are now bearing fruit, and that revenues reached record levels. The company reports the following highlights: * Strongest fourth quarter yet as y-o-y revenues increased 24.5 percent to SEK 180.1 (144.7) million * Operating margin at 31 …
Former US payment processor Chad Elie, who was caught up and convicted in Department of Justice actions aimed at shutting down online gambling in the United States, took a further defeat this week when his action against lawyer Jeff Ifrah alleging bad legal advice was dismissed by U.S. District Judge James C. Mahan. Commenting on …
Jacksonville attorney Kelly Mathis, who was convicted last year as a key defendant in the $300 million Allied Veterans internet café gambling prosecution has been sentenced to 6 years in prison by a Seminole County Judge in Florida. Mathis has lodged notice of intention to appeal, and will remain free on bond. He contends that …
It looks as though internet gambling in New Jersey is starting to ramp up significantly, with January revenues coming in at $9.46 million – a 28 percent rise over December, the first full month that state residents and visitors could gamble online. On the land side, Atlantic City casinos took another knock, with revenues down …
The Administrative Court of Wiesbaden has made an interim ruling ordering the Hesse Ministry of Interior and Sport to finalise the 20 German sports betting licence awards within three months. In May 2013, Hessian officials reportedly invited just 10 of the 149 applicants to participate in preliminary proceedings . In legal action led by BetVictor, …
Française des Jeux (FDJ) will accelerate its digital presence in an expansion to its existing relationship with social networking site Facebook. FDJ said the success of its “My Million” launch campaign on Facebook which reached 13.4 million French citizens in less than 24 hours had prompted it to strengthen its collaboration with Facebook. “These promising …