Scientific Games Corporation-owned Bally Technologies, Inc (formerly SHFL Entertainment) has won a dismissal of a patent infringement lawsuit brought against it by Table Max dating back to 2009. Bally Technologies challenged the validity of Table Max’s U.S. Patent Nos. 5,688,174, 6,921,337, 7,201,661 and 7,575,512 which related to devices and methods for electronic table games.
William Hill will officially rebrand its Sportingbet.com.au operation as William Hill in the Australian market this week followed by Centrebet and TomWaterhouse in the near future. Existing Sportingbet clients will be migrated to new local website William Hill.com.au. “This is the exciting first step towards merging three Australian betting brands into one highly regarded, international …
BC Lotteries Corp’s online Play Now website is getting a fair amount of U.S. media attention with its recently introduced novelty betting offer in Manitoba and British Columbia. “It’s meant to capitalize and bring that entertainment factor to more casual people that wouldn’t normally wager on something like a regular sports bet,” Chris Fairclough, senior …
India’s Police in the provincial capital of Punjab have reportedly arrested over 15 bookmakers in a crackdown across the city, saying action would continue against illegal bookmakers and gamblers. Laptops, telephones and registers were confiscated in the raids. In related news, Bangalore’s Central Crime Branch arrested Muneer Pasha and Sadiq Pasha for allegedly taking bets …
In the wake of the resignation of president and chief executive officer Jaymin Patel (see previous report), GTECH has named Michael Chambrello as chief executive officer of North America Lottery and James Hurley as senior vice president of investor relations. Chambrello will assume the position on March 23, 2015 reporting to GTECH S.p.A. chief executive …
The booming daily fantasy sports industry’s Fantasy Sports Freedom drive to achieve legal recognition is currently focused on the five US states that actively prohibit the activity as illegal gambling: Arizona, Iowa, Louisiana, Montana and Washington, and hopes to convince lawmakers that its dependence on skill rather than chance will open the way. Funded by …
Online gambling is again up for debate following the tabling this week of private member bill PMB3-2015 seeking to legalise the pastime, which is in general anathema to the ruling African National Congress party. Taking up the cudgels once again, the opposition Democratic Party MP, Geordin Hill-Lewis introduced the bill, which is little different from …
Sikkim, the only Indian province so far to regulate and licence online gambling, has issued its second licence to the energy drink group Maarm International Pvt., which has engaged with local lottery specialist Golden Lottery in a new venture to provide online gambling facilities to Sikkim residents. Golden Lottery will provide the technology platform for …
A notification to Pinnacle shareholders last week by M&A specialists Alternative Trading Partners shows that a controlling interest in the online sportsbook has been acquired by an unknown investor. The development may be a consequence of the enterprise’s exit from the UK market late last year due to the imposition of the point-of-consumption and secondary …
Bitcoin poker players who sensed internal troubles when online poker operator Seals With Clubs.com suffered and then announced its demise last week (see previous reports) were on the mark; in a rather bitter and meandering Youtube vid which appeared over the weekend more information was given by part-owner and chairman Bryan Micon. In silhouette against …
US racing group Churchill Downs had to deal with a payments crisis shortly after its $885 million takeover of the Seattle-based social gaming firm Big Fish Gaming, it has transpired from a news article surfacing this week. SC Magazine revealed in the piece that just a week after the acquisition was completed in mid-December last …
The Tatts gambling group in Australia posted increases in revenue in its fiscal H1-2014 ended December 31, with digital activities again performing strongly. The results showcase a net revenue increase of 14.6 percent to A$139.8 million as overall group sales increased to A$1.51 billion. The digital division of the company again turned in a sterling …
The name Mark Rivkin will be familiar only to industry veterans aware of the industry’s short history, but he and his brother Andrew can claim to have had a major impact in the pioneering days of online gambling, founding the Cryptologic software brand twenty years ago. The Canadian duo, barely out of university and working …
Bitcoin player suspicions that something was seriously wrong at the SealsWithClubs casino after over a week of downtime “to deal with technical problems” (see previous report) were confirmed this week when the company announced it was shuttering operations immediately, although withdrawal services are to continue to enable players to clear their account balances. The notification …
Bwin.Party’s continuing drive to focus on its core activities was in evidence again this week when NewGame Capital, an investment firm in which Bwin has an interest, sold off its entire stake in the UK online gambling operator Gaming Realms. The sell-off is believed to involve around 10.5 percent of Gaming Realms’ issued share capital …
Casinos del Rio, a major casino group in the province of Rio Negro, Argentina, contracted with Vivo Interactive, a supplier of Live Dealer technology and services, to provide the gaming platform for the first licensed and regulated online gaming website in the province, granted by regulator La Loteria of Rio Negro. Vivo Interactive customised its …
The trade body for the South African gambling industry, the Casino Association of South Africa, lashed out again at online gambling this week, accusing the sector of contributing to falling revenues at land casinos. In an interview with the South African Press Association news agency, CASA chief exec Themba Ngobese alleged without substantiating his claims …
Awards for the online casino industry have been posted for the year 2014 at Casinomeister.com after consultation with the site’s large membership. Guts Casino took the top honours as the “Best Casino of 2014 – Global” this year, with a citation that read: “Winner of Best New Casino of 2013, they never stopped to gain …
The Q4-2014 results from the Mr Green online casino group had good and bad news for investors this week; y-o-y revenues soared 28.3 percent, but the company is bracing itself for the impact of a possible tax hit from the Austrian government. Mr Green executives this week claimed the group’s performance had outstripped that of …
The UK advertising watchdog Advertising Standards Authority revealed the worst ads in terms of complaints in its review of 2014 published this week. Attracting the most complaints by far, and establishing a new ASA record at 5 525 complaints, was the tasteless but publicity-grabbing Paddy Power campaign with the slogan “money back if he walks” …
The latest attempt to offload the bankrupt Revel building in Atlantic City failed Thursday when bankruptcy Judge Gloria Burns allowed the owners to back out of a deal with Florida developer Glenn Straub on grounds that he had not completed the sale by the February 9 deadline. Straub, who made a winning bid of $95.4 …
Former Bingo.com owner, and now social and mobile gaming-focused Shoal Games released its Q4-2014 results this week, revealing new details on the disposal of Bingo.com to Unibet. CEO Jason Williams said: “We successfully divested the company of the domain name www.bingo.com and the associated online gambling business in exchange for $2,000,000 cash and the return …
Online gamblers in the Canadian province of Manitoba will be able to place prop wagers on the results of the Oscars this year as the provincial online gambling site Playnow.com expands its public offering. Regulator Manitoba Liquor and Lotteries is expanding its list of gambling options just in time for one of Hollywood’s biggest nights …
The US debate on the expansion of sports betting beyond the four states currently permitted to offer such wagering entered a new phase this week with an ESPN poll to assess professional athlete attitudes to the issue. The poll, which involved 73 players across the national sports leagues, revealed that 63 percent of respondents believe …