By investing Euro 30,000 and hospitality expenses, the Irish online social networking and betting company Bragbet has generated plenty of television and media publicity for itself this week. The company sponsored a race at the Punchestown Festival in Ireland and attracted punters, jockeys, owners and race officials to the fun ‘bucking bronco’ machine supervised by …
Online player GL has enjoyed a stunningly profitable week, taking down the Mega Moolah progressive jackpot at Microgaming-powered online Casino LaVida for Euro 3,036,392. More details on the player, his big win and his plans are currently awaited, but the translation of the Italian casino brand (“the good life”) has certainly taken on a new …
The Unibet online gambling group has posted another impressive set of quarterly results for Q1-2013, increasing gross win revenues by 16 percent year-on-year to GBP 59.3 million. Other key performance indicators included: * EBITDA up by 11.7 percent year-on-year to GBP 17.1 million * Operational profit rose some 7.7 percent to GBP 12.5 million. * …
The national lottery in Ireland saw internet sales soar 43 percent in 2012, but despite this strong online performance, revenue generated for good causes fell to Euro 225 million, reports the Irish Times. The support for charity and sports causes was the lowest in the past six years as overall ticket sales eased, the newspaper …
The lacklustre Q1-2013 from American land gambling giant Caesars Entertainment this week – company revenues sank a further 2.9 percent – formed the backdrop for one of the few bright spots in the report – improved performance from the group’s online division, Caesars Interactive Entertainment. Whilst the parent group revenues sank to $2.14 billion, CIE …
Geolocation services provider GeoComply, and payment processing outfit SecureTrading Inc. have joined together to support online gaming in Nevada. SecureTrading Inc. achieved Nevada licensing status as a service provider last month. It is partnering with a number of companies to integrate technology to its specialist payment platform, ultimately providing a single interface for maintaining regulatory …
The UK online gambling group Betfair has announced that it has been successful in defending its position on the Horserace Levy Board’s treatment of its customers following a Judicial Review action brought by rival William Hill plc. The High Court had previously ruled in favour of the position of Betfair as supported by the Levy …
The legendary exploits of daring motorcycle stunt rider Evel Knievel form the theme of a new internet slot now live on the Sky Vegas mobile and web portals. The game, produced by UK web and HTML5 mobile games developer Core Gaming and powered by a Blueprint Gaming slots engine, is set to catch the eye …
Vimal Patel, A 30-year-old accountant in Lewes, England, has been found guilty of stealing GBP 155,012 from the dental group where he worked, diverting the money from the company accounts to his own bank account to support an online gambling habit. The fraudulent activity took place between May 2011, soon after he joined the company, …
The British parent company of PokerStars says it still wants to buy an Atlantic City casino, even though a deal to obtain Atlantic Club fell through “time expired” on Wednesday. A company spokesman for The Rational Group told the Associated Press news agency late Thursday that the company wants to salvage its deal to purchase …
The Malta-based online gambling software developer World Match has followed its successful launch last month of the B-Boys Street and Farm Adventures slots with a new HD slot titled Insect World. As the name suggests, the new game is based on a colourful theme that embraces spiders, scorpions, beetles and grasshoppers. This backs a slot …
Product liability lawyers in the United States are apparently licking their lips at the prospect of problem gambling business as various US states move towards legalised online gambling, reports the Reuters news agency. The agency notes that last month a group of lawyers and academics experienced in the liability field met to discuss the possibilities …
The US state of Delaware is moving quickly on its intrastate online gambling legalisation program, selecting WMS subsidiary Williams Interactive, 888 and Scientific Games as its suppliers only two months after publishing its Request for Proposals. The Eastern state is targeting an operational date of end 2013, and the joint bid by the experienced and …
The Montreal-based online gambling group Amaya Gaming and Aussie gambling content provider Aristocrat announced a deal Thursday that will see Aristocrat offering the Ongame poker network platform – an Amaya subsidiary – to Aristocrat’s U.S. customers through Aristocrat’s nLive online gaming platform. Ongame has added many features for recreational players tailored for the U.S. market, …
Christopher Moses, the 26-year-old business manager of a UK recruitment company was jailed for over three years this week after stealing a total of GBP 461,000 from his employers to feed an online gambling habit. Moses bet huge amounts on online casino and bookie websites, losing an average of GBP 20,000 a month, the Wolverhampton …
Spielo G2, the i-gaming and sports betting division of Spielo International, has announced that it has signed a long-term extension to continue supplying Swedish state-owned gambling monopoly Svenska Spel with its online poker product. The agreement, which is the result of a competitive procurement process, extends the partnership agreement for a further four years, with …
Omega Gaming Ltd. and Optimove have teamed up to provide online gaming operators with a combination of an online gaming platform and marketing campaign optimisation. The two companies are now offering their systems in an integrated fashion for fast and easy deployment by customers. Omega is providing platform fusion, player life-cycle management, multi-vendor integration, and …
Gambling revenue in Macau, the world’s biggest land gambling destination, rose 13.2 percent to 28.3 billion patacas ($3.54 billion) in April, according to government data. Full-year gambling revenue hit $38 billion last year.
But DCMS select committee warns government against too high a taxation rate The British government’s Department of Culture, Media and Sport select committee on the adoption of a “point-of-consumption” regulatory regime in the United Kingdom has submitted its report here: http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201213/cmselect/cmcumeds/905/905.pdf The report supports the concept of point of consumption regulation, secondary licensing and taxation …
Originally thought to be a mere “agreement time-expired” glitch, the acquisition deal between Pokerstars parent The Rational Group and Atlantic City land casino Atlantic Club owners, Colony Capital LLC could be more serious than was at first thought. The agreement called for Rational to obtain an interim casino licence from the New Jersey regulators by …
The trial of two brothers accused of fraudulently obtaining a lottery ticket worth $5 million and then attempting to cash it six years later has ended in Syracuse, New York. 35-year-old Andy Ashkar was found by Onondaga County Court Judge Joseph Fahey to be guilty of being in possession of the stolen lottery ticket, but …
The Greek government’s privatisation agency agreed Wednesday to sell the state’s stake in the OPAP gambling monopoly to Emma Delta, the sole remaining bidder for the company, after the investment fund agreed to up its offer. Emma Delta improved its original offer by an additional Euro 30 million (payable in instalments) to Euro 652 million. …
GameAccount Network has reported record trading during its first quarter 2013 driven by new product launches in Italy’s regulated internet gaming market and mobile gaming in various European markets. The company said Italian online casino games grew by 170 percent in terms of gross gaming revenue while active players grew by 273 percent compared to …
OnlineCasino Deutschland GmbH has gone live, boasting to be the first of Schleswig-Holstein’s twenty-three licensed operators to offer a range of free-play and real-money games. Currently, players can choose from a selection of free play roulette, poker, blackjack, baccarat and real-money or free-play slot games. onlinecasino-deutschland.de offers full player services, a range of payment options, …