The Gibraltar-based online betting and gaming firm 32Red has reported record revenues with total gross win of GBP7.8 million in the half-year to end-June (H1 2009: GBP5.8 million).
The police in Israel have been visiting internet service providers (ISPs) in the country this week, ordering the managements to block access to overseas gambling websites on grounds that the pastime is illegal in Israel, reports the newspaper Haaretz.
One of the best known corporate spokesmen in the industry, William Hill plc’s David Hood, has departed the group ‘by mutual agreement.’
The Canadian provincial government for British Columbia will announce a significant expansion of its online offering this week, regulating and legalising online casino games in a first for North America, the Vancouver Sun reports.
New Jersey governor Chris Christie this week damaged political initiatives to reverse a federal ban on sports betting in the state by declaring that he will not sign on for a lawsuit initiated by a state senator against the federal government last year.
One of the veteran companies specializing in the provision of live dealer gambling over the internet, CasinoWebCam.com, has completed an extensive website redesign, adding new games, features and graphics to meet the needs and expectations of clients and players alike.
Shelley Berkely, the feisty Nevada Democrat who supports properly regulated and controlled online gambling in the United States, came out strongly against the recently implemented Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act this week in a major feature article in the Washington DC political publication Roll Call.
The acrimonious dispute between San Francisco online games developer Zynga and the giant internet information group Google is a thing of the past, it appears from reports in the US technical media.
We recommends the special report on gambling – Shuffle Up and Deal – which appeared Friday in the respected UK publication The Economist.
Revenue for the second-largest gambling market in the United States – New Jersey’s Atlantic City – fell more than 11 percent to $286.8 million in June, according to statistics from the Associated Press news agency published late Friday.
The advanced anti-corruption technology used by online betting exchange group Betfair has again contributed to the fight against cheating in sport by flagging a Newport, Rhode Island tennis match between Richard Bloomfield and Christophe Rochus.
The announcement earlier this year that Loto-Quebec intends to enter the online gambling sector has prompted the government in the Canadian province to appoint an advisory committee of independent experts, reports CBC.
Yet another major Asian betting syndicate has been dismantled by Hong Kong police cracking down on illegal internet betting on the World Cup.
French player reports surfacing Friday indicate that online casino and poker operators powered by Microgaming are excluding French gamblers in compliance with the new liberalising laws which came into effect early June.
The joint Ladbrokes and Canal+ joint venture into the French online gambling market has named a high powered management board that includes experienced French television exec François Deplanck as CEO, and Ladbrokes’ head of IT and remote gambling Mick D’Ancona as chief operating officer.
The notoriously complex legislative position regarding online gambling in the United States has prompted two members of the House of Representatives to launch a bill seeking to clarify the legality of online pari-mutuel horserace wagering.
The betting exchange peer-to-peer business model, pioneered in the UK years ago by online gambling giant Betfair, could find new application in the state of New Jersey, reports the Thoroughbred Times.
Police and other enforcement authorities in China have told the Reuters news agency that their concentrated drive against internet gambling on the World Cup has yielded another gigantic bust – this one arguably the largest online gambling ring yet.
The London-listed online gambling giant PartyGaming plc issued a trading update Tuesday revealing that its second quarter revenue is expected to be up around 28 percent compared to the same period last year, mainly due to strong growth in its online casino division, along with the acquisitions of Cashcade and the World Poker Tour.
According to a trading update issued Monday, the French online and land gambling group Pari-Mutuel Urbain (PMU) is enjoying significant and early rewards from the liberalisation of the French gambling market, reporting a 400 percent growth in sign-ups at its pmu.fr website since May alone.
Sixty-three year old Texas Lottery player Joan Ginther has to be one of the luckiest people in the lone star state…she has just won $10 million off a $50 scratch ticket….and it’s her fourth major seven-figure lottery win!
One year on from Russia’s draconian bans on gambling in all but four remote regions , gambling is still apparently rampant despite police raids and other enforcement measures.
There’s apparently no stopping the gambling boom in Macau, an island off the Chinese coast renowned for gambling entertainment. The latest statistics from the Macau Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau reveal that compared with June last year, 2010 June revenues are up 65 percent to 13.6 billion patacas ($1.69 billion).
A grandmother was among the latest 65 people detained for online gambling Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Thursday, reports the Bernama news agency, quoting police spokesmen.