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.
The Morongo Band of California Mission Indians were disappointed this week when the National Indian Gaming Association laid aside its proposal to block Barney Frank’s federal legislative attempt to legalise and tax online gambling in the United States.
BetSoftGaming, specialists in developing cinematic 3D games known as the Slots3, has announced the 12th release in the series with of the latest ambitious creation – Mr. Vegas.
Party Casino.com has launched a new online game branded Circus Slot that innovatively combines slot action and gaming activity. The casino bills the new approach as “the world’s first role-playing online slot,” and says that players are invited to choose from four memorable characters with varying abilities and unique storylines to take them through an …
Shareholders of two Vanguard Group Inc funds have launched litigation in a Delaware court against the company and fund executives for allegedly investing their money in four illegal offshore Internet gambling businesses, reports the news agency Reuters.
Memories of the trials and tribulations of the Bodog group at the hands of First Technology LLC patent attorneys surfaced this week with reports that a number of RealTime Gaming-powered online casino companies have been threatened with legal action for patent infringements by a little known company called Lottotron.
February gaming revenue jumped 32.9 percent on the Las Vegas Strip according to the latest official statistics, lifting shares of MGM Mirage, Las Vegas Sands Corp. and Boyd Gaming Corp. And Nevada state-wide gambling winnings were up almost 14 percent.
Industry observers have for some time been predicting that major media companies will become a growing and influential force in the online gambling industry, and it certainly appears from recent deals between Internet betting firms and major newspapers and television stations that this coming about.
The UK’s largest online and land gambling group Ladbrokes looks set to enter the newly liberated French market for the first time in its century-and-a-quarter corporate history.
The Vienna-listed online betting giant Bwin is planning to restart its French online gambling services as soon as the recently passed liberalisation legislation (see previous bulletins) has been implemented and licensing is opened, reports the newspaper Die Presse.