The Korean National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) has shut down an un-named illegal online casino and arrested the five nationals operating it. A court-sanctioned raid was conducted following a tip-off during an investigation initiated at the request of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office regarding International telephone fraud. The computer technician responsible for the set-up …
Social gaming firm Zynga unveiled its real-money gambling app for Facebook at the World Gaming Executive Summit in Barcelona, Spain today. The San Francisco-based firm is likely to launch the Facebook version of its ZyngaPlus Poker and ZyngaPlusCasino within the next month into the UK market and a mobile version soon after. The social network …
Veteran Software Architect Iain Starks has been appointed by GameAccount Network as it prepares for growth in its Platform Services division. Starks brings over three decades of experience in software design, architecture and development to GameAccount Network, including key development and architecture roles at William Hill,. “Our Platform Services division is experiencing high levels of …
mybet subsidiary C4U-Malta Ltd (C4U) has been granted a provisional e-money licence by the Maltese Ministry for Finance. C4U will be able to offer payment transaction services across the European Union making it independent of third-party banks for its payment transactions, affording it lower transaction costs and allowing it to earn additional income. The receipt …
SkillOnNet has released a new 3D slot titled “Hot Wheels”. The slot joins other titles in SkillOnNet’s 3D portfolio that include Vampires Feast, Magic and Wonders, Fun Fair Ride and Ghost Pirates. The 20-payline game features a muscle-built biker (the Wild) on a road trip, mirrored reels, helmets, spanners, maps and roadsigns. Landing three energy …
Isle of Man eGaming software development firm Iforium has appointed Richard Clark to the position chief operating officer. Clarke joins Iforium from Gala Coral where he served as Head of Mobile from 2011. Prior to that he managed the product launch of Scratchino and from 2004 worked as the International Technology Director at Ladbrokes. Phil …
Cassava Enterprises was censured by the UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) again, this time for the use of a comic-style format in an advert for its Spiderman game. The company was challenged for its responsibility in the use of imagery that was likely to be of particular appeal to children. Despite Cassava defending its position …
Delegates at this week’s World Gaming Executive Summit conference in Barcelona this week listened to a rather depressing assessment of the Italian online gambling market by Quirino Mancini, a partner with SCM Lawyers, who said that the prospects for the remote gambling market in Italy are ‘bleak’ with most operators barely surviving. Mancini said that …
Paddy Power plc announced Tuesday that it is introducing the first product to offer real money sports betting on Facebook. The product will be beta launched in the next few weeks. The in-house developed product, Paddy Power In-Play!, is being trialled as a Facebook app for desktop customers in the United Kingdom, which Facebook has …
The European online gambling group Bwin.Party Digital Entertainment has issued a pre-close trading update highlighting its ambitions to: * Continue cost-cutting in order to achieve Euro 70 million in savings by thethe end of 2013 * Pursuing New Jersey online gambling licensing with a November launch in mind * The continuation of its focus shift …
The publication AM New York reports that nine men were arrested in Manhattan Tuesday on internet sportsbetting, drugs and loan sharking charges. Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance Jr. and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly revealed that the takedown of nine reputed Bonanno crime family members who allegedly ran the gamut of illegal activities, including the illegal …
Fixed odds supplier 49’s Limited has announced that David Purvis has succeeded Richard Carter as its new Chief Executive Officer. Purvis, who has enjoyed a long and successful career in the gambling industry took up his new CEO role at the end of June following Carter’s retirement. The Company supplies a portfolio of fixed odds …
French operator Pari Mutuel Urbain (PMU) reported strong international development and online results partially offsetting a decline in the depressed French market. Key performance indicators include: – Slight growth in total stakes of 0.2 percent to Euro 5.3 billion – Growth in gross gaming of 0.8 percent – Horse racing stakes down by 0.6 percent …
Craig Mucklow (39) has been appointed as VP Trading Services at Las Vegas-based i-gaming odds provider Don Best Sports. Mucklow joins Don Best Sports from a relatively short stint at Betfair where he was appointed Director of Trading in charge of a Dublin-based trading team just last year. Previous positions include Head of Sports Trading …
Jerry Markling, the Nevada State Gaming Control Board’s enforcement division chief, has announced his retirement effective end of August 2013. Markling has served over 22 years with the Gaming Control Board and spent 8 years of those as enforcement division chief. Having served a total of 43 years in Government service, Markling said he was …
Virtual sports betting provider Inspired Gaming Group (IGG) has made the Sunday Times league table of Britain’s private firms with fastest growing overseas sales. The company is listed 34th on The Sunday Times HSBC International Track 200, an independently researched gauge compiled by Fast Track using annual reports filed at UK Companies House. IGG said …
Long standing investor and major shareholder Softbank shed its last tranche of a 10.6 percent holding in Betfair to Deutsche Bank. The Japanese technology firm became Betfair’s biggest shareholder in April 2006 when it acquired a 23 percent stake in the betting exchange at GBP 13.20 per share effectively valuing the firm at GBP 1.5 …
Teddy Mitchell (58), and son Dryden Mitchell (32), indicted in September 2012 on numerous charges that included Federal gambling and money laundering charges , entered into a plea agreement in a U.S. District Court this week. Mitchell was accused of running a “large-scale” gambling operation from his home in Oklahoma City offering “high stakes” poker …
The British interactive television gambling operator NetPlayTV has issued a Q2-2013 trading update, reporting that strong marketing activity has boosted key performance indicators on a year-on-year comparison as follows: • 19 percent increase in new depositing casino players to 14,906 (Q2 2012: 12,515) • 25 percent increase in quarterly active depositing casino players to 28,261 …
Today (Tuesday) could be an important landmark for online gambling in Ireland as the Cabinet considers a law that will see the 1 percent land betting levy expanded to cover internet gambling activity. The cash-strapped Irish government hopes this will bring in an extra Euro 17 million later this year. The Irish Times reports that …
Australian online games developer Coober Games has launched a real-money online casino 8Coin.com on the Betable platform. 8Coin.com offers UK-based players traditional casino games that include slot machines, pull tabs, keno and scratch & win games. “Partnering with Betable has opened up an opportunity and experience we never thought we’d be able to offer our …
Brazilian gaming company SlotoPrime has released sixteen new game titles bringing to 48 the number of games in its portfolio across six rooms on the Facebook social platform. Titles include “Tales of Arabia”, “Wicked Hood” and “Pimp My Money” amongst others developed by Portable Slots, a company operating within Vesta Incubator located in Brazil. Portable …
Scientific Games’ recently launched Sciplay.Studio iLottery Game Portfolio will feature interactive game content and services from two additional Canadian third party developers, Karma Gaming and Telos International. Karma Gaming and Telos International join NEKTAN and Instant Win Gaming Ltd in content supply deals that already sees the Sciplay.Studio portfolio offer an exclusive library featuring the …
Amid the ups and downs of the drawn-out privatisation of OPAP, INTRALOT has announced the signing of a five-year IT contract with the Greek state-owned gambling monopoly today (Monday) which is sure to prove controversial in the context of the 33 percent stake consortium Emma Delta has recently acquired, due for completion by the end …