High 5 Games announced Thursday that it has finalised an agreement with Caesars Interactive Entertainment to integrate its remote game server into CaesarsCasino.com in New Jersey. CIE becomes High 5 Games’ first official i-gaming partner in the state, which recently legalised intrastate online gambling. CIE will become the first New Jersey operator to integrate H5G’s …
Marketing Magazine reports that former O2 Telefonica and Moneysupermarket exec Paul Troy has been appointed global director of brands at online gambling group Gamesys and will be responsible for international marketing strategy planning, a new post in the company. Among the brands falling within his area of responsibility are Jackpotjoy, The Sun Bingo, CaesarsCasino.com and …
The UK interactive television and mobile betting company NetPlayTV has released its Q4-2013 numbers, showing strong quarterly growth as follows: * 33 percent increase in total net revenue to GBP 7.9 million (Q4 2012: GBP 5.9 million) and 22 percent increase on Q3 2013. * 12 percent increase in new depositing players to 15,648 (Q4 …
GVC Holdings plc, the Isle of Man-based online gambling operator of the CasinoClub, Betboo and Sportingbet brands in Malta, the UK, South Africa, Italy, Germany Denmark, Alderney and the Netherlands Antilles, has posted a trading update covering its fourth quarter and full year 2013 performance numbers. Revenues in the fourth quarter averaged Euro 531,000 per …
Fresh from it acquisition of WMS Industries, the US gambling supply company Scientific Games has announced that it has sold its remaining 39,742,179 shares in Sportech plc for gross cash proceeds of GBP 27.8 million. The shares are being sold pursuant to Regulation S of the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended, with …
The widely respected Bloomberg business television program “Street Smart” briefly but positively examined the legalised online gambling phenomenom in the US this week, in the process dismissing land casino mogul Sheldon Adelson’s controversial campaign to ban the pastime altogether on moral grounds. Trish Regan, Cory Johnson and Alix Steel of Bloomberg were joined by Greg …
Police in Gretna, New Orleans have reported a major online gambling shutdown at an Internet cafe following two months of surveillance and undercover investigations. The Times-Picayune reports that police raided the Lucky Times Internet Cafe at the Gretna shopping centre mid-morning Wednesday, finding that over a hundred computer terminals were being used for online gambling …
The Canadian province of Manitoba has reported that the introduction of legalised online gambling in the province has not been as profitable as estimated. The publication Canada.com reports that provincial government figures show that Manitoba made just $300,000 in the six month period ended September 2013, well short of estimates that revenues from the pastime …
The Labour push for immediate action on Fixed Odds Betting Terminals in the House of Commons Wednesday afternoon has ended in a victory of sorts for the government, with MPs voting to hold off on action until the results of a review already commissioned by the government are published and have been studied. However, the …
The House of Commons debate on Fixed Odds Betting Machines and the control of retail betting shop licensing was ongoing Wednesday afternoon when we went to press, but the initial exchanges on the issue during Prime Minister’s Question Time indicated a rare agreement between the government and the Opposition. Labour Party leader Ed Miliband kept …
A collaborative agreement signed in September last year between US companies Affinity Gaming and Scientific Games subsidiary Williams Interactive came to fruition Tuesday with the launch of Affinity’s A-Play Connect Play4Fun Network. Under the terms of the deal, Williams agreed to provide the American land-based operator Affinity with a freeplay i-gaming platform compatible with its …
The two former “Panda” hackers arrested late last year for running an online gambling operation in China have been sentenced to stiff jail terms in the Liandu People’s Court sitting in Lishui, Zhejiang province. The Chinese news agency Xinhua reports that Zhang Shun and Li Jun were sentenced to five and three years Wednesday as …
Mystery continues to surround the sudden resignation and departure of Vancouver-based online games developer Genesis Gaming founder and CEO Steven Meistrich announced by the company in a press release on December 23 2013. The announcement included details of a comprehensive revamp of the management team which took effect immediately and included: * The appointment of …
Trada Casino is making some sweeping changes, announcing that it is to switch to the Pariplay platform around mid-January 2014, and has plans to bring Microgaming and other providers on board at some point in the future. The operator has communicated with players advising them of the plans, and assuring them that their account balances …
Swedish online gambling software developer Yggdrasil Gaming has signed a licensing agreement with the Vera&John online casino to supply its entire product portfolio, along with a full suite of localised games targeted on emerging Asian markets, where the casino operator has ambitious expansion plans. Yggdrasil specialises in lottery and instant lotto products, slot, keno, mobile …
The Interactive division of US games and equipment supplier International Game Technology (IGT) has announced the simultaneous mobile and online launch of its popular slot Battleship. IGT Interactive also launched two other top titles for online punters – Cluedo Classic and Dungeons and Dragons – Treasures of Icewind Dale. The Battleship launch is IGT’s first-ever …
Fixed Odds Betting Terminals (FOBTs) has become a major media and political issue in Britain, with the official Opposition Labour Party gearing up to force a vote in Parliament, according to a BBC report Monday. “Labour is to force a vote in Parliament on its plans to give councils the power to ban high-stakes roulette …
The high profile and well-connected US legal expert Jeff Ifrah has published some predictions on US internet gambling on his website: http://jeffifrahlaw.com/2013/12/26/jeff-ifrah-shares-top-three-predictions-for-igaming-in-2014/ Using his experience and knowledge, Ifrah says the following outcomes are likely in 2014: * There will be player pool sharing compacts between states that have legalised online gambling such as New Jersey, …
Geoff Freeman, the American Gaming Association’s president and chief executive, has revealed that he is building more effective staff, consulting and lobbying resources with a view to taking a more proactive and aggressive approach to US gambling issues, particularly in the evolving online gambling sector. The Washington DC newspaper The Hill quotes Freeman as saying …
The New Jersey regulator has released the latest online gambling account creation stats for the new market, revealing that last week was the busiest yet with 22,256 new accounts opened at licensed operator sites. That brings the total since the market opened in November to 148,487 and counting. Industry observers attribute the surge last week …
Online sportbetting operator EliteBet is exploiting the proliferation of mobile smartphone technology in African countries by launching EliteBet Kenya .com in Kenya Football punters with a taste for international action can register and deposit through their mobiles, using a mobile phone-based money transfer system called M-Pesa. Once they have a personal identification number via SMS …
The Chinese New Year may still be a few weeks away but Crystal Spin Casino’s new Dice and Fire slot game from provider Top Game has already added a touch of the Orient. Dice and Fire is a 5-reel, 20-line, Asian-themed video slot with Jade Dragons and Golden Buddhas and a special double-or-nothing gamble feature …
The Ganabet.mx operations of Mexican gambling group Operadora General de Entretenimiento SA de CV will receive a new turnkey sports betting platform from UK provider SBTech following an agreement just signed. The deal requires SBTech to supply and integrate a full turnkey solution including sports and live betting, premium casino and live games, advanced HTML5 …
Oliver Frolich, the fifty-year-old director of the German online and retail sports betting firm HappyBet, has been found shot execution style at the back entrance to his offices in the Sachsenhausen district of Frankfurt. He had two bullet wounds to the head and was found by a local resident on Friday. The Frankfurter Neue Presse …