Reports this week from the Reuters news service that online gambling group 888.com was in advanced talks to acquire up to five companies prompted the publication e-Gaming Review to ask CEO Gigi Levy whether Cashcade was on his group’s shopping list.
Italian online gambling group Microgame SpA has reported an astonishing increase in gross profit of 456 percent on turnover growth of 12 percent to Euro 490 million for the full year ended December 31st 2008.
Opposition to a proposal by Delaware governor Jack Markell to legalise sportsbetting in the state has caused the governor to reconsider his original legislation, which envisaged up to three more slot-machine and sports betting casinos in Delaware and allowed sports betting at up to 10 non-casino venues, such as sports bars.
Congressman Barney Frank will be launching his latest legislative attack on the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act tomorrow (Wednesday) at a press conference in Washington.
Online skill games developer Greentube AG reports that the fifth edition of its annual Ski Challenge virtual racing competition saw registered players make 260 million runs, and resulted in Austria winning the competition.
The Russian government has no intention of moderating its draconian ruling that come July 1st 2009 all land gambling venues will be moved out of main cities and confined to four pre-identified areas in the country.
UK gambling firm Gala Bingo has announced that Claire Petulengro, one of Britain’s most popular clairvoyants and astrologers, will be joining Gala TV – a bingo-dedicated British Sky Broadcasting Group channel – to present her first weekly live television show.
Swedish Internet skill games provider Jadestone has clinched another deal with a major online gambling company, signing up the international betting group Betfair for its multiplayer gaming networks DiceArena and GamArena.
With public reaction growing against an attempt by Minnesota state enforcement officials to block Internet gambling sites at ISP level, a prominent member of the state legislature – and a Republican at that – came out in opposition to the ban this week.
Dublin-based online gambling software and games developer CryptoLogic Limited has launched a new downloadable game lineup that features a video slot version of Jenga, one of the world’s most popular board games.
The tough economic times and growing competition in the UK are cited as reasons behind a 4 percent drop in 888.com’s Q1 2009 revenues to $57 million when compared with Q1 2008, the company revealed this week.
The publication Motley Fool, which has consistently punted online gambling stocks like GigaMedia, published an interesting perspective on the online gambling industry this week, quoting from the analyst Brean Murray.
Life-changing, multi-million-dollar progressive jackpot wins are for many gamblers the Holy Grail of gambling, and for online players it is no different.
The bingo operations of Irish online gambling group Paddy Power have been switched to a new platform, players were advised late last week.
Betfair’s latest US acquisition TVG and TrackNet Media Group LLC announced Friday a deal that allows TVG to accept online wagering on TrackNet affiliated tracks, including those operated by Churchill Downs Incorporated and Magna Entertainment Corp.
More details have emerged regarding the voluntary funding dispute between the international online betting exchange Betfair and Horse Racing Ireland.
Unusual betting event of the week has to be the Nenana Ice Classic, an annual event on which the folks in Alaska have a good-natured wager every year in trying to guess when the Tanana River ice will break.
Australian newspapers such as The Sunday Age and WA Today attacked the international gambling group Ladbrokes over the weekend, accusing the firm of breaking the law by encouraging Australians to gamble on the internet, and implying that this may act against its ambitions to obtain a Victorian land wagering licence.
Many online gamblers use social networking websites, and a cautionary article this week in Marketwatch will therefore be of interest.
Canada was at the epicentre of a state lottery scandal last year in which statistics showed that an unnaturally large percentage of lottery ticket sellers were winning prizes.
Bingo technology provider Virtue Fusion Alderney has announced the launch of its multi-currency, multi-lingual, networked software on Swedish gambling monopoly Svenska Spel’s new online Bingo website, Svenska Bingo.
Media reports last week that online gambling companies interested in the soon-to-regulated French Internet sector were already advertising in the region have been followed by the news that the French government has called a halt to the premature promotions.
Canadian delegates to the International Masters of Gaming Law Spring Conference in Windsor, Canada have revealed that the US anti-online gambling law the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act is disrupting not only American online horserace wagering and state lottery operations, but those in Canada as well.
The gates to ParaDice, the newest gaming platform at the Vienna-listed online gambling giant Bwin, are now open at https://games.bwin.com/dice.aspx following the launch this week.