The European Commission has confirmed that its chief Michel Barnier will not be releasing the much-anticipated Green Paper on Online Gambling on March 16 as planned, but that the presentation will be made on March 23rd.
Sportsbook technology provider Offsidegaming has announced an agreement with Latin American marketing partner, Tristar International, to launch a number of sportsbetting, casino and poker sites across the Latin American region.
Online gambling group Unibet has been handed a Euro 75 000 suspended fine by a Belgian court…before the company was given an opportunity to enter a plea, according to the local media site RTL.
Online gambling software developer Playtech as released a new celebrity-studded slot dubbed, appropriately, Top Trumps Celebs as one of its new March 2011 releases.
The wider wagering opportunities afforded by improved communications technology such as broadband internet and mobile phones has contributed to an increase in sports betting and heightened the dangers of problem gambling, according to Australian academics.
The New Jersey Casino Control Commission reports that Atlantic City casinos recorded a 1.4 percent year-over-year decrease in casino win during February 2011.
Bodugi.com, a social betting website, launched this week, offering chat facilities linked to Facebook and Twitter, biogs and private messaging,
The police raids on City Cyber Cafe and Digital Connection in West Valley, Utah this week resulted in 67 people being arrested, police have revealed in a follow-up statement regarding the anti-online gambling drive.
It’s either a famine or a feast when it comes to e-gaming legislation in Nevada, it appears. Hardly had the ink dried on media reports on the launch of Assembly Majority Whip William Horne’s AB 258, which seeks to legalise intrastate online poker, than two more pieces of legislation surfaced as the week ended.
Jersey politicians may still be arguing about the nitty gritty of becoming an online gambling jurisdiction, but the Channel Island’s telecommunications company is getting on with upgrading its facilities in anticipation of increased demand.
The Gala Coral group’s online operations at Gala Bingo.com have launched an entertaining new 5 reel, 20 pay-line slot dubbed Joker Jester.
The furore over the Greek government’s proposed online gambling tax rate of 6 percent of turnover appears to have been ameliorated with the news this week that following submissions from interested parties, the politicians have now opted for a 30 percent tax on gross profits.
The UK Advertising Standards Authority has released a finding against another online gambling company, this time criticising an internet promo launched by Cassava Enterprises’s Sing Bingo website.
Las Vegas Strip gambling revenue fell 2.5 percent in January in the third straight monthly decline as the city faces an uneven recovery, reports the Bloomberg news agency.
After suffering a setback in litigation against a New South Wales levy on turnover, the Australian divisions of internet gambling groups Betfair and Sportsbet won the right to appeal Friday.
Police in West Valley City, Utah shut down two online gambling operations in raids this week, arresting dozens of people in the process and confiscating computer equipment, reports KSL.com.
The sheer size and growth of the internet gambling market generated in Australia by online gamblers has prompted further calls for regulation rather than the present government’s prohibitionary stance.
The chief executive officer of the giant Austrian online gambling group Bwin Interactive, Norbert Teufelberger, is optimistic that the German market will be opened up and the current monopolistic stranglehold of the country’s sixteen states (provinces) will be broken.
Thursday is a landmark day for the Italian online gambling sector, with the government expected to gazette and bring into force new regulations further opening up the market to poker cash games and internet casino action.
Online players can look forward to a whole range of fresh online slots once an agreement between slots manufacturer Aristocrat Leisure Limited and online gambling network GameAccount comes to fruition.
Gamesys’s Jackpot Joy bingo site will unveil its latest comical ‘Queen of Bingo’ commercials this week, with the new television advertising campaign running through until 18th March and coinciding with the popular annual TV Comic Relief charity fundraiser.
A merger between Italian betting group SNAI and the Cogetech group should transform both companies and create a strong offline and online sports betting presence, according to reports in the Italian daily newspaper Il Corriere della Sera.
There was more disappointing news from New Jersey this week as local media reported that Senator Ray Lesniak’s lawsuit seeking to overturn a federal sports betting ban has been unsuccessful.
David Yu, chief executive officer of online gambling group Betfair, had some interesting observations on the Bwin-Party Gaming merger and its likely impact on Bwin subsidiary Ongame this week when he spoke to reporters following the release of his company’s third quarter results.