The UK Gambling Commission announced the conclusion of a multi-agency investigation involving Virgin Media employees and suspicious betting patterns, this week.
Party Casino.com has announced that its Big One five tiered pool jackpot has gone over $4 million for the first time, and that total jackpots available on games on the site have now passed $6 million in value – a new record for the operation.
Two game developers, Jackpot Party’s owner WMS and NYX Interactive have released new slots this week, extending the already wide offers now available to online gamblers.
Causing ripples of interest this week following the news that Cryptologic may be on the sales block was a strong rumour that internet gambling firm Amaya has already amassed a five percent holding in Cryptologic stock and is considering an acquisition bid.
Efforts by the Greek government to liberalise land and online gambling and move away from a monopolised structure dominated by OPAP have reportedly encountered another delay.
Venue choices for Russian gamblers, already restricted to four remote regions of the country in draconian gambling bans imposed some time ago, have shrunk further with the news that prime minister Vladimir Putin signed an instruction to close the Azov City gambling zone in the country’s Rostov region this week.
The announcement of a new liberalised gambling policy in Germany has claimed an early casualty as the digital sports media company Perform Group delayed its initial public offering until later this week.
The newly merged Bwin-Party Gaming conglomerate Bwin.party digital has reacted swiftly to the announcement Wednesday that Germany is to liberalise its online gambling market, albeit with severe restrictions and taxes.
The latest feature-rich online video slot from the RealTime Gaming studios, Coat of Arms, has a medieval theme showcasing knights in armour and their chargers, castle keeps, crowns and colourful shields.
The Canadian province of Saskatchewan may yet join British Columbia, Quebec and (next year) Ontario in venturing into online gambling, the latest Saskatchewan Gaming Corporation financial report reveals.
One of the most controversial issues in online and land gambling, the monopolised nature of the German industry dominated by the sixteen German states, has seen a dramatic change this week following a meeting of the signatories to the German Treaty.
The Herald Sun reports that the Australian Football League (AFL) has been forced to defend its associations with bookmakers after a national survey found that 75 percent of fans were concerned about the rise of sports gambling and another 37 percent were concerned that betting saturated sports.
Betfair’s charity initiative Cash4Clubs, a vehicle to help amateur sports clubs in the UK in collaboration with SportsAid, has made a further GBP12 820 donation to 16 clubs, bringing to GBP140 000 the amount it has funded since 2008.
The respected online gambling consultancy H2 Gambling Capital has concluded a survey of three separate European regulatory regimes in a bid to assess a level of taxation that will attract operators but at the same time deliver reasonable taxation value to the nations concerned.
The Spanish-based Padel Pro Tour circuit will now be renamed the bwin Padel Pro Tour circuit as it attained a new title sponsor and official betting partner in online gaming operator bwin, this week.
Skillstar.com, a BetClicEverest French online gaming website that offers skill gaming, has announced that it will be extending its game experience to television with the launch of a TV Web Show.
Greek betting monopoly OPAP is scouting the market for an IT supplier as its current contract with Intralot is due to end in July 2012.
Online betting exchange, Betfair, has become the St. George Reds’ latest sponsor and official wagering partner, the Queensland Rugby Union announced this week.
Online gaming software provider, Viaden Gaming, released Roulette 3D and Craps 3D Mac applications, it announced this week.
Costa Rica’s serious crime problems – and reducing these with increased enforcement action funded by a new gambling operator tax – was a major pillar in the election platform of presidential candidate Laura Chinchilla last year . But it appears that the proposed 15 percent tax on gross revenue has been shelved…at least for the …
With net gaming revenues up 14.1 percent to Euro14.6 million, and EBITDA positive at Euro 5.3 million, the Austrian listed betting company Betbull can mark 2010 down as a reasonable year in which it shook off significant historic losses .
Now in its fifth-straight year of a revenue decline brought on by the explosion of casino gambling in neighbouring states and exacerbated by the poor national economy, Atlantic City’s 11 land casinos reported gross operating profit that fell by nearly 28 percent last year.
The UK government has announced the completion of an enquiry by MP Don Foster into possibly millions of pounds sterling lying dormant in betting accounts and unclaimed winnings, the result of which was delivered this week to John Penrose, Minister for Tourism and Heritage.
The seemingly pedestrian progress on the sale of the UK government’s Tote may be about to accelerate, according to reports in the English media over the weekend, with acceptable bidders now down to just four.