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 …
The Swedish online gambling content provider Net Entertainment has signed a partnership deal with UK platform supplier GameAccount Network that will see its mobile and desktop casino gaming content made available to well-known and established operators in the Italian online gambling market such as Sisal, Snai and Eurobet. Björn Krantz, managing director of Net Entertainment …
The US pro-online gambling legalisation action group Coalition for Consumer and Online Protection (CCOP) has expanded its activities beyond op-ed articles and guest speakers to paid advertising, spending $250,000 in the first phase. Online and print advertisements pointing out the advantages of federally legalised online gambling and appealing for a halt to any Congressional attempt …
The possibility of legalised online gambling in the state of Pennsylvania will be under the spotlight on Wednesday next week when a commission tasked by the state Senate Legislative Budget and Finance Committee with studying the sector and its implications tables its report. The investigating panel has clearly been working hard on the project, which …
The state of Delaware’s nascent online gambling market is small but growing, judging by the latest numbers from the state lottery regulator. In February 2014 intrastate online gambling operations recorded gambling win of $166,454, up 13 percent on the preceding month, from 5,689 registered players. The number of registered players increased by 693 players in …
The raunchy, hard-drinking comedic cartoon teddy bear created by Seth MacFarlane and dubbed simply “Ted” is to feature in one of Zynga’s free-to-play social slots in the “Hit It Rich Slots” series. According to a report in the publication Variety, the new slot is already available on Facebook, but has not yet made it to …
Webis Holdings San Francisco-based advanced deposit pool wagering subsidiary WatchandWager.com has inked an agreement with Hong Kong Jockey Club Horse Race Betting Limited which gives it access to the HKJC pari-mutuel pools. In an announcement Thursday the US-licensed firm claimed that no other wagering operator in the world is currently able to wager internationally into …
The European online gambling company Bwin.Party Digital Entertainment says in its 2013 full year results posted today that it is on track for a return to growth after problems in Greece and a strategy calling for focus on regulated markets. The company reported the following highlights: * Total revenue down at Euro 652.4 million (2012: …
Legalisation in the Netherlands continues to progress, albeit slowly as the draft legislation wends its way through the political and bureaucratic labyrinth. The latest version of the bill amends server obligations and presumably seeks to alleviate European Commission concerns by removing suggestions that current licensees in the country be given a time advantage when the …
In its Q4:2013 results just posted, Scientific Games reduced its net loss from $12.4 million in Q4:2012 to just $500,000 in the current quarter, and from $43.9 million in Q4:2012 to $25.6 million in 2013, thanks mainly to its acquisition of WMS and a good performance from its lottery division. Overall group financial highlights included: …
A court in Guangzhou district, in China’s Guangdong province, has started hearing the country’s largest illegal online gambling case, involving 484 billion yuan ($78.79 billion) in wagers, reports the Xinhua news service. The ring mainly attracted betting on international football matches via offshore gambling websites, but was also involved in illegal casino activity. Nineteen defendants …
The New Jersey online gambling market grew 9 percent in February, albeit at a slower rate than the preceding month, and with a 10 percent drop in poker revenues, the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement announced Wednesday. The market is now in its third month of operation, with a quarter of a million online …
888Casino has issued a written brief to creative agencies for the development of a “high-visibility activation campaign” for UK and US consumers across TV, print and outdoor media. The 888 Holdings brand will accept pitches from three selected agencies in early April, 2014. Campaign Live report the company will offer agency fees of up to …
International Game Technology has declared a cash dividend of $0.11 per share on its common stock, a 38 percent increase over the same quarter last year and its 44th consecutive quarterly dividend payout The dividend is payable on April 4, 2014 to shareholders of record on March 21, 2014.
The Belgian Gambling Commission has added another five domains to its blacklist. Latest inductees comprise skill7.com, gametwist.be, gametwist.com, scratch-mania.com, nl.scratch-mania.com, fr.scratch-mania.com and de.scratch-mania.com
Gala Coral Group’s online gaming arm Coral Interactive has acquired UK-based Cool Games Ltd. for an undisclosed consideration. Cool Games Ltd is an independent multi channel games developer that was founded in 2004 by Andrew Todd who previously spent time at Barcrest as a games designer. Cool Games carry a portfolio of around three hundred …
The Coalition for Consumer and Online Protection, an action body set up to oppose Sheldon Adelson’s Coalition to Stop Internet Gambling, fired another broadside Tuesday with an op-ed in the influential political newspaper The Hill written by former FBI agent, politician and chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, Michael Oxley. Oxley stressed that banning …