The Greek government’s plans to impose a new 10 percent tax on gambling winnings have been further suspended, and new talks are scheduled on the measure following strong opposition from sales agents of the country’s betting monopoly OPAP, the Reuters news agency advises.
The Alderney Gambling Control Commission has completed enhancements to its licensing regime following local government approval, and is now set to launch its new product in January 2010.
Online gambling software provider Tain AB is to offer its licensees an expanded online gambling system, augmenting its existing product line of online casino and poker with white label sportsbook facilities.
The ingenious interactive racecard launched in September has quickly gathered support from leading industry sportsbooks. Press Association Sport reports this week that it has signed up sportsbooks Betfred, Blue Square and Digibet as white label partners.
GTechG2 group, the online gambling provider that includes Dynamite Idea, Finsoft, Boss Media and St. Miniver in its subsidiaries, has unveiled Casino 4.10, it’s latest software upgrade and new games package.
Offsidebet.com, an online gambling operator focused on new and emerging online gaming markets, has chosen Virtue Fusion Alderney as its online bingo supplier.
Details are still scarce, but this week started with a progressive jackpot bang at the Microgaming-powered Aztec Riches Casino when a player hit a $295 272 progressive jackpot on the Major Millions slot.
Online casino operator Slotland.com reports that a retired grandmother who prefers the quiet comfort of online casinos to the noise and smoke of Las Vegas land operations won a progressive jackpot of $175 812 on October 12th.
The province of Sikkim is likely to have the distinction of being the first Indian state to issue online gambling licenses, and UK gambling giants like Betfair and William Hill Online are among the first into the sector with licensing applications, reports The Independent newspaper.
Right2Bet, the campaign for the liberalisation of online gambling in the E.U. , has reached the 10 000 signature mark in its quest to gain a million supporters for its cause.
Investors still clearly like the Ladbrokes brand and potential judging by reports in the London business press this week that the last 5 percent of the company’s GBP 375 million rights issue has been taken up. Shareholders in Ladbrokes agreed to buy the shares following the company’s cash call on 8 October to cut its debt …
According to the Dayton, Ohio Daily News the local law enforcement in Montgomery County raided and shut down an Internet cafe which made online games of chance available to patrons on some 50 PCs.
This (Monday) morning’s report on an investment by online gambling group Betfair in California-based social networking applications provider Watercooler has been confirmed.
BSkyB online and interactive television gambling subsidiary Skybet has posted a full year rise in revenues of 9 percent to GBP 48 million, noting that an easing of the interactive television income stream was compensated by an increase in online bets.
Industry sources are abuzz at the news expected later today (Monday) that online gambling giant Betfair’s Australian operations are about to make a major investment in the social networking provider Watercooler, an Internet start-up that has registered 26 million users in only two years.
The IRGO-Spelinstitutet problem gambler online self-diagnotic software developed in Sweden is now being offered by the Norwegian state gambling monopoly Norsk Tipping.
Cynical online gamblers who have seen it all before are all too familiar with the slow-pay excuse “it’s a software glitch,” but in a finding by the Malta regulator this week that appears to have been the case regarding Bet After Bet.com.
Online betting exchange Betfair has scored another American coup, reaching a deal that will allow common-pool betting on next month’s Breeders’ Cup at the Kentucky racecourse Santa Anita Park, reports Associated Press.
The Baltimore City Paper reports that federal enforcement officials in Maryland continue to pursue Internet cash processor Electracash Inc., recently the subject of financial seizure orders based on allegations of processing online gambling transactions.
The main focus of industry interest as the week ends was Thursday’s Kentucky Supreme Court hearing on whether the state government has the jurisdiction to seize 141 international domain names owned by online gambling companies based beyond the reach of Kentucky enforcement.
The protection of the integrity of sport in the UK is receiving the Gambling Commission’s close attention, although there were relatively few suspicious betting transactions during the period September 2007 to June 2009…and most of those were flagged by betting site operators themselves.
Scratchcard fans with a penchant for something a little different will be able to try their hand at a multi-game combination of Bingo and Keno following the launch of Disco Keno this week at the Hopa.com and Scratch2Cash.com scratchcard websites.
Bettorlogic, the form analysts backed by industry veterans Andrew Black and Nigel Payne, has announced the appointment of Steve High – architect of some of Betfair’s most innovative and revolutionary features – as Chief Technology Officer.
Online gambling software provider Microgaming has revealed that the much anticipated grand finale of the Grand Slam of Slots online tournament begins today (Thursday) and in nine days will deliver a single victorious player. On 2nd November, that player will be a million dollars richer.