The land betting shops of the Gala Coral gambling group in the UK are to benefit from a slew of interactive games popular with online punters and developed by provider Mazooma.
Veteran industry execs like Nigel Payne of Sportingbet fame and Betfair founder Andrew Black are among a team of ten industry managers who will climb Africa’s highest mountain, Kilimanjaro, in February this year, raising money for charity and generously sponsored by Sportingbet.
The New Jersey bill seeking to legalise intrastate online gambling appears to have hit an unexpected scheduling obstacle, according to reports in the local media.
New numbers from the respected UK online gambling monitor H2 Gambling Capital show that despite adverse global economic conditions, gross win in the internet gambling business rose 12.5 percent year-on-year in 2010.
Media Corporation’s intended sale of the desirable domain Gambling.com is generating interest from private equity companies, according to a number of media reports kicking off interest in the sale as business gets back under way in 2011.
The China Press reports that despite unrelenting police enforcement pressure , online gambling continues to flourish in mainly small online gambling shops in Malaysia.
The gambling island of Macau off the Chinese coast has once again proved that it leads the global field, reporting revenues up 58 percent in 2010 to a new record of 188.34 billion patacas ($23.5 billion).
Ignacio Gonzalez, a lucky Spaniard in the country’s Basque region, had a close call this week when he had to scramble to find lottery tickets worth Euro 9 million that he had dumped, mistakenly believing that they were not winners.
The Playtech-powered Europa online casino rather tardily announced a major progressive jackpot winner this week, reporting that Canadian online punter Jocelyn Sirois won Cdn$524,556.55 playing the Beach Life slot….on November 20, 2010!
A court action in which the pro-online gambling action group Interactive Media Entertainment and Gaming Association is involved entered a new phase this week when the U.S. Department of Justice opposed an attempt to legalise sports betting in the state of New Jersey.
A Manhattan federal court sentenced a man who is alleged to have connections with the notorious Gambino crime family to 30 months in jail this week after he pleaded guilty to racketeering charges related to online sports betting.
With the last hours of 2010 ticking away, an online punter on the Bet365 online casino site hit a major progressive win Thursday whilst playing the Clover Rollover slot, a 5 reel, 5 pay-line game where players need to bet a maximum bet of $1 on all 5 pay-lines to qualify for the jackpot. To …
The anti-fraud software and service provider Innovation reports that in 2010 its reputation device screening clients foiled 35 million fraud attempts.
The Swedish online gambling software provider Net Entertainment has signed up another customer for its popular CasinoModule product, agreeing to supply an online casino and regular instant-play and download game additions to the German listed firm JAXX SE.
The UK-based company Gambling Invest plans to get 2011 off to a flying start by offering up a wide variety of gambling-related domains on an internet auction between January 26 and February 2, 2011.
A New Zealand punter from the small town of Magascene in New Zealand must have been especially nice all year and then some – Santa (in the shape of the New Zealand Lottery) brought him a NZ$13 million prize to spread some Yuletide cheer.
Ingenious Cambodian internet casino operators, who have been making a good living offering punters live dealer online gambling over the internet, have been feeling the heat this week as police hammer their premises in a series of raids.
Winner Affiliates has announced the purchase of Casino Del Rio from the Euro Partners Affiliate Program. The sale is due to be completed in January 2011.
Online software developer, Rival Gaming has announced the launch of Japan-O-Rama, an exclusive 20 payline, 5-reel i-slot.
Bwin Interactive Entertainment AG and Party Gaming plc have released details of the merger timeline and plans, which the duo claim will “….create the world’s largest publicly listed online gaming group that will be ideally positioned to take advantage of the rapid consolidation of the online gaming industry and to open up new markets around …
The land and online betting group Paddy Power, which acquired a 51 percent interest in the Australian group Sportsbet for Euro 27.2 million in 2009, has locked up the remaining shares by exercising its option to buy the remaining shares of the company. Paddy Power has invested a further Euro 100.9 million in completing the …
Realm Entertainment, a Malta-based company, has signed a GBP1.6 million deal with Swedish online gambling firm Betsson which secures the Betsson Turkish database, along with a five year business-to-business deal providing a complete online gambling operation.
The independent professional business services group PricewaterhouseCoopers has issued a report on the land gambling Mecca of Nevada, predicting that the parlous business situation of the state’s gambling industry should begin to improve late 2011, eventually returning to pre-recession levels by 2014.
Online gambling software developer BetonSoft has launched the precursor to its most popular title to date – Alpha Squad – detailing the life of the super hero leader, Captain Shockwave.