The top Vienna-listed European betting group Bwin Interactive was in bullish mood this week as it released its Q1 2010 numbers, posting a Euro 34.3 EBITDA and predicting a substantial increase in 2010 profit. Full-year 2009 earnings before interest, tax, debt and amortisation were confirmed at Euro 102.2 million.
One of the industry’s major online gambling groups, Sportingbet.com, has announced that it intends to move its shares to London’s main market. The company has announced the cancellation of trading of its shares on London’s Alternative Index Market pending its listing on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) next month.
The high profile Washington DC action taken in the past against lobbyist Jack Abramoff in attempts to reduce political corruption surfaced again this week as Republican politicians tried to marshall support against current proposals to legalise online gambling.
It took four months for an Israeli couple to realise they had won Israel’s biggest ever lottery prize and find the ticket, according to widespread reports in local and international media this week.
There are two cyber-gamblers out there who are probably still celebrating following major hits on internet jackpots recently.
Following player reports of slow-pays involving RTG-powered Cuba Club and Lucky Slots online casinos, it is perhaps not surprising that these casinos going offline for the last 48 hours and counting has triggered alarm.
Last month’s Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks on four online gambling information portals, including a 1 gig/sec assault on Casinomeister.com, put the subject of robot armies and cyberinvasions of this nature back in the spotlight, but new solutions are evolving all the time.
More details are emerging about the Poker Players Alliance involvement in the Massachusetts political debate on the introduction of two land casinos. The debate has attracted the attention of the online gambling industry because an Internet gambling ban was buried among the many clauses.
888.com’s b2b subsidiary Dragonfish received a ringing endorsement this week from the top UK online bingo group Cashcade, which has extended its bingo platform agreement for a further two years.
South America apparently features in the plans of the Vienna-listed online gambling group Bwin, which is expanding outside of its traditional European markets and plans a presence in as many as four South American countries over the next two years.
Live dealer provider Evolution Gaming, which has offices in London, Malta and Stockholm and high tech Internet video-streaming studio facilities in Latvia, has become one of the first in its sector to achieve the high standards required for the eCOGRA Certified Live Dealer Seal.
Kentucky governor Steve Beshear’s latest attempt to squeeze money out of the offshore Internet gambling industry will have little upside for Kentucky taxpaying gamblers, according to a report in ABC News this week.
Massachusetts House Speaker Robert DeLeo’s legislative attempt to introduce land casinos to the state is to be debated today (Tuesday) and has already attracted some 216 suggested amendments from House representatives, reports the Boston Globe newspaper.
The April 16th House Financial Services Committee hearings on two bills authored by Barney Frank has been postponed indefinitely, according to a spokesman for Frank’s office.
The Malaysian authorities have joined those in Indonesia in threatening to monitor Internet betting on the run-up to the World Cup football championships in South Africa mid-year.
Ioannis Spanoudakis, the chief executive of Greece’s state gambling monopoly OPAP has online gambling in mond once regulators give their greenlight.
The former Australian cricket star Shane Warne, who since 2008 has represented 888’s online poker interests at poker events around the world, has been criticised for using his Twitter page to promote online gambling.
The Austrian listed Bwin online gambling group is to showcase its modern marketing broadcast medium Sheeva at the Las Vegas NAB Show , which starts today and runs through April 15th, a spokesman revealed this week.
The major UK newspaper The Daily Mirror is the latest media company to sign up for a white label scratchcard solution from Neogames.
The UK government’s Department of Culture, Media and Sport has announced ther reappointment for a further four years of Rachel Lampard and Lord (Andrew) McIntosh of Haringey as Commissioners of the Gambling Commission.
Mystery continues to surround officially unconfirmed reports that surfaced on Saturday that Eye On Gambling.com portal owner and sports betting industry personality Ken Weitzner and his wife Jacqueline had been found dead at their Chesapeake home.
A spokesman for the Indonesian national police in Jakarta, Indonesia has warned that the Internet will be monitored in the run-up to the World Cup football championship in South Africa in order to guard against illegal Internet betting activity.
The Safe and Secure Internet Gambling Initiative, an advocacy group pressing for the legalisation and licensing of online gambling in the United States, reports that Congressman Barney Frank’s Reasonable Prudence in Regulation Act (HR2266) and Internet Gambling Regulation, Consumer Protection and Enforcement Act (HR2267) will be the subject of further legislative hearings in the House Committee …
Online gambling software provider RealTime Gaming is currently rolling out its latest two online slots, Lucky Last and Hockey Hero, to its online casino licensees.