Publicity earlier this month by the online gambling group Intertops, revealing that it was reentering the US market with a RealTime Gaming-powered online casino had industry observers speculating.
Greece’s international lottery specialist group Intralot has announced the successful achievement of a 6-year deal to supply the New Hampshire Lottery with a system for online games, its ninth such contract in the United States.
Online gamblers are being warned to be on the alert this week for fraudsters who have been trying to exploit the reputation of the major listed European online gambling group Bwin to leverage a criminal advantage over players.
Management at Casino Euro are gearing up to celebrate an important milestone for the five-year-old online casino and poker room as it closes in fast on its 500 000th customer registration.
TheStreet.com reports that persistent rumours of an acquisition deal being negotiated between PartyGaming and Gigamedia have heightened interest in the appointment of a new chairman at the Taiwan online gambling group, which owns the popular Everest Poker website and Funtown, the Internet’s largest Mahjong site.
The Reuters new service reports that a court in Newcastle, UK has convicted a restaurant worker for the brutal murder of a Chinese graduate couple last year over their part in an Internet betting issue.
Efforts by Irish bookmaking companies and associations to convince the government that moves to double gambling tax would endanger employment prospects and businesses in the sector were successful this week as the government relented.
Live sports data provider Enetpulse is to supplu a series of Internet fantasy sports games to the Danish state gambling monopoly Danske Spil under the terms of an agreement that will run for the next three years.
A little known online gambling software company, Galewinds Software Incorporated gave larger rivals a lesson in player-sensitivity this week by stepping in and paying an online player who had been jerked around by an online casino it powered for months.
Barriere Hotels and Casinos group’s recently launched 3D online casino, Le Croupier.com, has added a suite of instant-play games to its offering.
The Ukraine government’s abrupt ban yesterday on gambling other than in a specially delineated location has resulted in thousands of employees of gaming halls and casinos staging protest marches and demonstrations in the country’s capital, reports Reuters new service
E-Gaming Review reported exclusively this week that the UK’s Royal Bank of Scotland has recommended to its online gambling clients that they find another bank to service transactions from the Netherlands and Switzerland going forward.
The UK listed gambling group Rank plc has announced that its Mecca Bingo subsidiary is currently seeking a new managing director following the resignation to pursue other business interests of present incumbent Simon Wykes, who has expressed a wish to move on with immediate effect.
The Malaysian police maintained their active drive against illegal gambling this week with further raids in the Prangin area Monday, reports the Bernama press agency.
The American Gaming Association, a trade association representing the interests of US land gambling operators, has confirmed news reports of tough times for the industry by releasing annual statistics showing a decline in gambling revenues of $ 1.6 billion to $ 32.5 billion in full year 2008.
Party Casino.com has added 13 new games to its inventory, with the flagship release featuring a theme that is a musical slot tribute to legendary songster Frank Sinatra.
Draconian and antiquated gambling laws that prohibit gambling, and especially poker, in the state of South Carolina could be in for revision as two key bills move out of the legislature committee stage and toward full debate and voting.
Online gambling software provider Virtue Fusion Alderney has launched three new games aimed at player retention. BlackJack, Mafia Millions and Fruit & Veg will be available to players on all Virtue Fusion sites from this week.
According to widespread reports in the Malta mainstream media, a Greek national working on the island of Malta as an executive with online sportsbook and casino company Gold Victory Limited was arrested over the weekend on allegations of misappropriation of Euro 500 000 from customer accounts.
Savvy industry veterans Mark Blandford and Andrew Black, who were involved in founding Sportingbet and Betfair respectively, are looking to a football oriented sports betting enterprise as a profitable investment.
Robert Stikeman, longtime chairman of online gambling software provider Cryptologic is to step down from his position, although he will continue to serve the company as a non-executive director.
Ladbrokes released disappointing numbers for the 4 first 4 months of 2009 ended April, reporting a 34 percent overall decline in pre-tax profits.
Major European online gambling operators such as Stan James, Betfred, Boylesports and Sportingbet will be expanding their games offering shortly following a deal by GTECH subsidiary Finsoft with the online gambling games developer Wagerworks.
Dragonfish, the independent B2B division of 888 Holdings plc, was active again this week, launching a new Spanish bingo network, El Cartonazo, for its partner Daub Limited.