Dutch State-owned Holland Casino’s strategy to decentralise operations will result in a third of its Head Office employees facing the axe. The restructure affects around 100 jobs which add to the previous loss of 350 job cuts announced earlier this year. According to the Financieele Dagblad, Holland Casino is expected to make a loss of …
Mississippi’s 2014 legislative session will include hearings and discussions on internet gambling said House Gaming Committee Chairman Richard Bennett, R-Long Beach. Bennett said in an interview with the Sun Herald newspaper that if and when lawmakers act, he will propose only companies that own casinos in Mississippi be eligible to be licenced to launch online …
The Football Pools has announced a record-breaking weekend that saw a player bag GBP 441 605 on a 12-fixture predictor game. The winning punter playing on Jackpot 12 successfully predicted the outcome of 12 games spread across matches from the Premier League, the Championship, SPL, Ligue 1 and the Bundesliga with a pool size growing …
GameAccount Network (GAN) floated on the London AIM and Irish Stock Exchanges this morning, with analysts saying that early indicators show shares performing strongly in early trading soon after the markets opened. The company’s market capitalisation stood at GBP 75 million at the time of placing . “We hope to see more companies do this …
William Hill has deployed an in-house brief to large network and boutique agencies inviting them to pitch for its advertising account said to be worth around GBP 15 million. The gambling firm has worked with Fabula and Beattie McGuinness Bungay (BMB) in the past but trialled moving its advertising business in-house earlier this year, reports …
Malta-licensed land gambling operators who fail to comply with the LGA rules on gambling promotion on internet social media sites run the risk of losing their licensed status, says the recently appointed new head of the Lotteries and Gaming Authority, Joseph Cuschieri. The LGA requires that land operators advertise and promote only on media regulated …
It’s a sad tale, told all too often; a lucky punter wins a big lottery prize and entrusts the machine-checking of his ticket to a store clerk. The store clerk tells the punter that he has won substantially less than the true win, pays him out and then tries to claim the big win on …
Online bookie Paddy Power is poised to introduce faster cash-out processes in recognition of a key punter demand, reports the Sunday Independent newspaper. The UK betting exchange Betfair pioneered the fast cash-out service concept, which enables gamblers to cash in their bet before a race or a football match has ended. Paddy Power’s Peter O’Donovan …
Three twenty-something software programmers from Bulgaria, Russia and the Ukraine have been arrested in Cyprus for running an illegal online gambling operation. The police have not released details of the websites involved. The Cyprus Mail reports that the trio operated servers from an apartment in Paphos, and were arrested on Thursday evening after police officers, …
Last year’s suspension of spread betting firm Marketspreads had a costly impact on the company’s financial results; Management noted this week in presenting new accounts. The Irish spreadbetter was suspended by Ireland’s Central Bank for capital adequacy and audit opinion issues and, it now transpires, that was a contributory cause is pre-tax losses of almost …
Geolocation glitches appeared to be the most common issues on the first night of New Jersey’s trial period of online gambling Thursday, with some operators reporting complaints by legitimate New Jersey punters that despite being within the state they had been blocked, and others reporting successful blocking of players outside the Garden State perimeter who …
Bally Technologies subsidiary Bally Interactive has announced a deal with the Chilean Enjoy Group subsidiary Conrad Punta del Este Resort & Casino in Uruguay that will see it provide an e-gaming platform and content. “We are excited to announce an iGaming platform partnership with Bally Technologies which will provide outstanding benefits and entertainment options for …
White label online casino and sportsbetting provider Everymatrix has announced an addition to its managed operations stable in the shape of the new Russian sports betting site ContoraBet. Newly appointed Everymatrix head of gaming, Ryan Henderson, will oversee management activity at the site, bringing ten years of industry experience – most recently with Pinnacle – …
The Bulgarian Gambling Commission has announced the approval of three accredited testing agencies for the country’s online gambling market – one local and two international laboratories. The local testing agency approved by the Commission is the Bulgarian Institute of Metrology, which has a good track record in gaming, software and communications equipment testing. The international …
The severe Greek economic recession, allied to an increased tax burden has been cited as the reason for a drop in profits at the Greek gambling monopoly OPAP, recently acquired by the Emma Delta group . The gambling group’s third quarter net profit plunged 61 percent y-o-y to Euro 44.4 million, although it was better …
Isaac Ward, the e-gaming chief at Paddy Power for the past year who unexpectedly left and has been “on gardening leave” appears to have been head hunted by rival William Hill plc. The news surfaced Friday that Ward is heading to Australia, where he will take up responsibilities as commercial director at the new William …
The Manila, Philippines offices of online gambling operator Bodog Asia were the unwilling hosts for a police raiding party of a dozen officers – not all of them carrying official identification – late afternoon Thursday. Employees were interviewed but not arrested and one claimed to the Manila Times that the police documents justifying the action …
The Sun International hotel and casino group identified sports betting as a market with growth potential earlier this year, acquiring Powerbet Gaming, which owned and operated Voltbet.com, for Rands 30 million. Voltbet has now been rebranded as Sunbet and relaunched, with Sun International exec Michael Farr saying Thursday that it would be marketed to South …
The Selangor state in Malaysia is working on stronger laws against cyber cafe gambling, the province’s chairman of the Local Government, Study and Research Standing Committee, Datuk Teng Chang Khim revealed this week. The new law will give local authorities more power, allowing police officers to be more effective in stamping out online gambling, he …
The US gambling content company International Gaming Technology could do rather well out of the nascent New Jersey online gambling market, which opens in soft launch format today. In addition to its diverse and appealing range of popular slots translated into the online environment, the company has commercial arrangements with several of the companies that …
A police online sports betting bust in October this year saw 10 men involved in the hotel and bar industry sentenced to heavy sentences of imprisonment this week in Hue, Vietnam. All were accused of facilitating online betting on international football games, the Thanh Nien News reports. Prosecutors claimed that in August last year La …
Net Entertainment has launched its much awaited 243-ways-to-win video slot Twin Spin, a game that it claims combines the essence of Las Vegas and the best of new-age video slot technology. Backed by sound effects and music, the new slot takes players back to a time of traditional slot machines…but with a unique innovative twist. …
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is to ask the US Supreme Court to allow sports gambling in his state’s casinos after a federal appeals court said last Friday it would not rehear the case . Christie and New Jersey’s lawyers have argued – thus far unsuccessfully – that the 1992 Professional and Amateur Sports Protection …
Thanks largely to political manouevring by conservative opponents, a Canadian bill amending gambling laws to permit single game betting has languished in the Senate for two long years despite receiving overwhelming support in the House of Commons. Bill C-290 was back in the news yet again this week as Canada’s Minister of Sport, Bal Gosal, …