The Bahamas government continues to dither on the issue of whether to legalise and tax the currently illegal web shops (informal outlets that facilitate betting on US lotteries) and the establishment of a national lottery. Back in 2012 the Progressive Liberal Party won the national elections and took power, and early in the following year …
The latest filings on Teddy Sagi’s SafeCharge plans for a $100 million IPO on London’s AIM exchange (see previous reports) indicate that the float is being scheduled for early next (April) month. SafeCharge International Group Limited is a payment partner across a diversified, blue chip client base, according to the announcement. The group is a …
Australian land casino operator Crown Resorts, which is currently Betfair’s equal partner in its Australian enterprise, has indicated that it is interested in taking full ownership by boosting its shareholding from 50 percent to 100 percent, according to a report in the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper. If successful, the move would give Crown full control …
The Alderney Gambling Control Commission (AGCC) has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with FIFA subsidiary Early Warning System GmbH (EWS) in anticipation of the upcoming 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil competition. The MoU agrees close cooperation between the two bodies for the early detection of suspicious activities in sports betting which includes the …
San Francisco-situated social casino gaming firm Idle Gaming (formerly Idle Games) has launched its second social product titled Slots of Fun to accompany its popular Fresh Deck Poker app launched early last year. Slots of Fun is available as a free download in the Apple iTunes App Store and on Google Play, the company claims …
ISIS Lab Corporation has appointed Dmitri Dain, the former head of PokerStars software development arm PYR Software, as its chief technology officer (CTO). Dain has almost two decades of experience in both the private company and public company sector. Prior to PYR Software he served as CTO of E*Trade Israel, MIS manager of AVX Corporation …
Fiona Thorne has been appointed by the Gala Coral Group in the newly created role of Corporate Affairs Director. Thorne, the former chief executive officer of Fishburn Hedges, will take up the role in early April and report to Gala Coral Group chief executive officer Carl Leaver. She will be responsible for the development and …
Fairfax Media’s The Sydney Morning Herald reports Crown Limited is set to buy-out Betfair UK’s 50 percent share of Betfair Australia, a joint venture between the two companies. Betfair is apparently keen to offload its share of a business that has been less profitable than it had initially hoped, unlike rivals Paddy Power and William …
Yggdrasil Gaming has closed a deal with the major online gambling group Unibet to provide its full games portfolio. Unibet is the largest operator Yggdrasil Gaming has partnered with to date and a fast growing business in the European regulated gaming market, having posted record earnings in 2013. In its most recent results its fourth …
Slotastic Casino has debuted the latest RealTime Gaming live dealer action at some of its European and American Roulette, Baccarat and Casino Hold’em tables. Players can access the new live dealer casino games by clicking the Live Dealer button in the casino lobby. For Baccarat players there are games with $1-$5 or $1-$50 betting limits. …
5050Sports, the innovative online casino game that enables players to wager on the outcome of exclusively-licensed archive sports footage, will be available to more than 100 additional operators following integration with the Quickfire platform, powered by Microgaming. The agreement between owners Real Sports Global and Quickfire provides operators with new high turnover, on-demand football and …
The online gambling company The Rank Group plc announced Tuesday that Colin Child, its senior independent director and chairman of the audit committee, has resigned from the board with immediate effect. Child joined the board of Rank on 1 January 2012 and became senior independent director and chairman of the nominations committee on 1 July …
Game developer iSoftBet has debuted its martial arts-inspired “Red Dragon Wild”, a kung-fu themed action adventure available on the online and mobile platforms. Red Dragon Wild is a 5-reel, 30-payline game featuring an Extended Wild symbol and exclusive red and blue Dragon Wild symbols. Three Red Dragon Bonus symbols on the reels will unlock the …
Estonian-based Snowcat IP OÜ has become the exclusive worldwide long-term Master Licensee for the entire library of Game Concept Intellectual Property created and held by Matchless Games Limited, a UK-based gaming developer. Snowcat IP OÜ is in the business of developing and licencing intellectual property rights with the commercial view of re-licencing or sub-licencing those …
Mr Green Casino has appointed Thomas Rosander as its chief product officer based in Malta. Rosander joins Mr Green from Electronic Arts where he carried out the role of director business intelligence before being appointed as engagement director. Prior to EA, he was employed by bwin.party digital entertainment as section head business intelligence and product …
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Eindhoven-based game development studio Sheriff Gaming titles will continue to be marketed by the newly-launched Blue Gem Gaming. Curacao-licenced Blue Gem Gaming is the development team that originally created the games and exclusively licensed its IP to Sheriff Gaming whilst the company was trading. Readers will recall Sheriff Gaming parent group Bubble Group BV filing …
BIGMAN Entertainment’s limited launch of its BIGMAN Slots for Facebook at the end of January 2014 (see previous report) has been followed by a wider rollout worldwide. The game is the first of other Spin4Free social casino games scheduled for release later this year and features seven slot stages accompanied by the new Barktropolis and …
Despite the ravages of Black Friday, an online poker affiliate marketing company in Minneapolis, Four Cubed, managed to hang on and is now looking for capital to expand, with a foot already in the door in the nascent US online gambling business in Nevada, New Jersey and Delaware. Reporting on the resurgent Four Cubed and …
By the time US enforcement and tax authorities have finished with him BetonSports online gambling site founder Gary Kaplan (55) will have “contributed” $79 million to government coffers, made up of $43 million ceded to government as part of his plea deal, and a further $36 million squeezed from him through an IRS civil action. …
Sibu police in the Sarawak province of Malaysia carried out further “Operation Dadu” raids against illegal online gambling shops over the weekend, arresting 37 people and seizing 36 computers and other evidence in two raids in the city. Following the raids, District police chief ACP Mohd Kamal Kordi claimed that his officers have eliminated 30 …
Our readers may recall the case last year of Jonathan Revill, a GBP 55,000-a-year IT manager for the GDF SUEZ energy company in Leeds, England who defrauded his company of almost GBP19 million through false orders of IT supplies, which he then sold at a discount over the internet to make a personal profit of …
Barely a month after it launched internet wagering on instant scratch card tickets, the Minnesota Lottery faces political opposition by lawmakers peeved that they were not asked to pass a law specifically allowing the use of the internet to boost lottery sales. The Associated Press news agency reports that the Senate leaders of both parties …
The Afghan Red Crescent – the regional equivalent of the Red Cross charitable organisation – announced on Thursday the launch of a new mobile-based lottery project aimed at crowd-funding weekly charitable donations. The public will be able to purchase 35 Afghanis (about 44 Euro cents) tickets, called “Sacrifice Charity Tickets”, by dialling 1313 on a …