Less than a year ago New Jersey gambling industry observers were hoping that the launch of the new Revel land casino would revitalise Atlantic City’s ailing land gambling industry, but this week the operation announced that it has applied for Chapter 11 bankruptcy late next (March) month. The voluntary move is designed to wipe away …
New Jersey governor Chris Christie told a public gathering in Lavallette Tuesday that he would not hesitate to sign the intrastate online gambling legalisation bill currently being amended to meet his demands… if those demands are met. Earlier this month Christie gave a qualified veto on the bill, specifying provisions he wanted changed before he …
If you attended the ICE show earlier this month, and used your plastic, be sure to check your credit card statements According to a report Monday on the Gambling911 information website, “dozens” of industry people attending the ICE conference in London have reported that they have been compromised “via smartphone usage at the event itself.” …
Hayward City, the sixth largest municipality in the San Francisco Bay area, is taking a close look at online gambling in internet cafes, and intends to impose a 45-day moratorium on such enterprises whilst it does so. News of the move has already seen one company in the area decide to permanently shutter its doors, …
Sheriff Gaming continues to rack up the deals, its latest a content supply agreement with gaming platform developer Edict eGaming. The company will provide Edict eGaming with its portfolio of 3D slot games and scratchcards enabling its white label customer’s access to popular Sheriff Gaming titles in multi-currency and language options. Eric Roskamp at Sheriff …
Inspired Gaming Group (IGG) said it welcomed the start of the virtual sports homologation process in Italy which was announced by the Italian gaming authority AAMS earlier this month, an event it says the company has prepared for over the last three years. IGG said it has already clinched deals with major Italian operators SNAI, …
Interactive media and gambling application firm Donaco International Limited, formerly Two Way Limited prior to its acquisition by Donaco Singapore Party Limited last year, has appointed Keong Yew ‘Joey’ Lim to fill the position of managing director. Lim, a computer sciences graduate of Queen Mary and Westfield College at the University of London, is the …
Swedish-founded online casino Mr Green has appointed Henrik Svensson in the role chief marketing officer from February 1, 2013. Svensson joins Mr Green from a position of chief executive officer and chief marketing officer at Nordic Gaming Group (NGG) recently integrated into the Betsson Group following its acquisition. Prior to NGG, he worked for Betway.com …
Swedish gaming firm Unibet has announced it is the latest recipient of a Schleswig-Holstein online casino licence, an interesting development considering the current political situation concerning gaming and the State’s intention of re-joining the German State Treaty on Gaming . Other awards made in the sports betting licence category include Cash-Line Sportwetten GmBH and Trading …
Betsson will be the next Quickfire, powered by Microgaming, licensee to integrate Sheriff Gaming 3D online slot games in to its game portfolio. Rudi Thomassen, casino director at Betsson said, “We quickly identified Sheriff Gaming as one of the leading developers of online games, that are not only unique within the market but that also …
Taiwan punters using foreign websites to gamble were blamed by the Taipei Fubon Bank this week for lottery losses of NT$8.3 billion (US$279.7 million) accumulated over the past five years. The publication Focus Taiwan reports that the losses were incurred by the bank in its issues of domestic sports lottery tickets, which were heavily impacted …
The UK newspaper The Independent published an interesting article over the weekend identifying pioneering online gambling operators in Europe, although surprisingly it did not include major player Bwin.Party Digital Entertainment and CEO Norbert Teufelberger. The newspaper reported that the executives it named had all made fortunes as pioneering online gambling entrepreneurs, most of whom were …
A familiar name in the online gambling industry – former Malta regulator Mario Galea – surfaced recently in articles about the Gaming Standards Association, for which his company Random consults. Galea is part of a move to create pragmatic online gambling standards through which industry companies can reduce R&D costs, bring more inter-operability to the …
While the stocks of gaming companies have been on the rise based in part on the news that New Jersey is likely soon to approve a multi-year trial period for online gambling, a new nationwide survey by AlixPartners, a business advisory firm, finds that 35 percent of active gamblers say they would wager online if …
Pennsylvanian Representative Tina Davis has confirmed speculation last week that she is about to move on the introduction of an intrastate online gambling bill, perhaps as soon as next week. Speaking to the publication TribLive, Rep. Davis said that the bill would go first to the state House, and acknowledged that it could face a …
The South Dakota and Washington state-based land casino operator Nevada Gold & Casinos Inc. has launched its first online gaming venture, a free-to-play online casino site which opened on Facebook Friday. Gold Star Slots is a casino app made up of a range of quality slot machines, some from online gambling suppliers and others taken …
Betfair’s new chief executive officer, Breon Corcoran is certainly making his presence felt…and not in a good way from the point of view of an increasing number of retrenched workers. The Telegraph newspaper reports that Corcoran has been pulling Betfair out of countries where there is uncertainty on regulated operations, and has exited markets like …
After years of denial, false starts and confused policy statements , it appears that the Dutch government is at last moving toward a regulated and licensed online gambling regime. The country has a draft bill under review and due for presentation to parliament later this year, albeit with ridiculously high tax proposals of around 30 …
Irish bookmaker Paddy Power has teamed up with the Racing Post for the launch of its latest innovation inFormer. inFormer is the name of the new interactive horse racing form guide from Paddy Power. It gives punters detailed horse form, official ratings, Racing Post ratings, pedigrees for UK and Irish Racing and betting options by …
Hawaii News Now reports that around twenty-four residents have been charged or arrested on charges related to offshore online betting. Honolulu car salesman Terrence Ching (40) reportedly pleaded guilty to one count of making illegal bets and one count of filing a false tax return Friday. Ching, acting as a go-between, is alleged to have …
Net Entertainment’s Mega Fortune online slot game paid out an impressive Euro 3.1 million to a British 31-year old father of two this week playing on Malta-licenced operator Mr Green. This progressive jackpot hit is the second this year, with the first being won just three weeks ago for Euro 17.8 million. “The high liquidity …
The Swiss Federal Administration has issued details on the launch in the second half of the year of a consultation regarding its proposed new gambling law. The proposal will include lifting the existing ban on online casinos and regulating the industry with the Swiss Federal Council utilising tax revenues derived from licenced online operations to …
Gaming Machine Supplier Inspired Gaming Group (IGG) and William Hill Organisation Ltd (William Hill) will make a joint ex gratia payment of GBP 300 000 to the Responsible Gambling Trust (RGT); to be used at the Trust’s discretion. The payment relates to a self-reported incident concerning an Astra-developed game “Reel King” that, due to a …
Finnish national betting agency Veikkaus, who recently underwent a management restructure and business strategy revision, reported on its full year 2012 results which it said were impacted by one-off changes in the environment that included an increase in lottery tax. Key performance indicators for the 2012 Full Year include: – A rise in earnings of …