Prosecutors and police in Moscow, Russia are currently investigating the alleged online activities of major Russian bookmaker FON following claims that the company has been organising illegal online gambling facilities for Russians. With over 900 retail outlets opened across Russia since it registered in 1994, FON is one of the country’s biggest bookmakers, and early …
Net Entertainment’s latest video slot is a 5-reel, 15-line video slot titled “Wonky Wabbits”. Set against the backdrop of a vegetable garden, the star of the game is a peckish rabbit who burrows under the reels to appear under a symbol where the best possible win will occur. As he munches away, the symbol turns …
The New York-based 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals today declined to consider a review of the ruling in the DiCristina v. United States, 13-564 case. Lawrence DiCristina, a bicycle shop owner, was convicted of running twice-weekly Texas Hold’Em Poker games in his Staten Island warehouse between December 2010 and May 2011. The group organised …
International Game Technology’s social network DoubleDown Casino has launched “TRANSFORMERS: Battle for Cybertron” on desktop and mobile. Players can experience the legendary battle between the Autobots and Decepticons in this latest Hasbro-licenced release featuring popular Transformers characters. The game is a 40-line, 5-reel action adventure featuring IGT’s FreeFall Symbols, multipliers and free spins. FreeFall Symbols …
One of the most interesting op-ed pieces published over the weekend has to be a Las Vegas Review-Journal article on the history of betting through channels created by technology developments, written by David G. Schwartz, who is the director of the Center for Gaming Research at the University of Nevada. Arguing for the regulation, and …
Rear Admiral Tim Giardina, the former nuclear commander now assigned a desk job in the Pentagon pending the outcome of a navy investigation into his gambling activity using fake chips last year (see previous reports) still awaits decisions on his fate months later, according to the Omaha World-Herald…and he’s becoming impatient with the delay in …
The forthcoming advent of World Cup football and the UK’s new secondary licensing and taxation legislation are fuelling a growing boom in advertising spend by betting companies anxious to position themselves to best advantage in the British gambling market, an article in This Is Money over the weekend claimed. This year’s World Cup, which takes …
industry over the weekend in presenting new measures to ameliorate the political and media fall-out over the allegedly predatory use of Fixed Odds Betting Terminals in High Street retail betting shops. In an open letter, the bosses of Gala Coral, Ladbrokes, Paddy Power, William Hill and Betfred detailed measures being introduced this week to ensure …
Malaysia’s Operation Dadu police drive to eradicate illegal online gambling turned its attention to the Sibu province Friday, with late night raiding parties closing down an online gambling centre in the Delta Estate and arresting 21 persons. Among them were two senior civil servants allegedly caught in the act: a 42-year-old officer with the Royal …
Bodugi Limited, a social sports betting company that styles itself as one of the pioneers in the sector, is currently displaying a “down for maintenance” sign on its website, but the real reason is that its licence has been suspended by the UK Gambling Commission. The company was founded in 2010 by Dave Nevison and …
Online gambling is just one of several potentially risky industries and activities (in a legal sense) that Google wants to exclude from its new Google Cast project – an iOS and Android technology bridging app that enables big-screen hardware to connect to the internet through smart phones and tablets. It’s clear from a warning issued …
The state of Kentucky’s six-year-long attempt to confiscate 132 international internet domain titles belonging to companies allegedly associated with online gambling (see previous reports) has been confronted with a serious obstacle following a decision Friday by the Kentucky Court of Appeals. The Court ruled that trade association the Interactive Gaming Council had the right to …
Webis Holdings, a UK sportsbetting and online casino group which reported a loss of GBP 100,000 this time a year ago, has managed an impressive turnaround for the half-year, posting a profit of GBP 100,000 on turnover up 11 percent y-o-y in the six months to end November 2013. The company’s trading update this week …
This week the publication Computing published a mainly technical article on the sophisticated and constantly evolving IT technology necessary to keep UK online betting group bet365 at the top end of the international gambling market. The operating parameters are staggering; bet365 operates centres in London and Manchester capable of handling 500,000 gambling transactions every second, …
Metric Gaming’s Superlive sports betting platform will be distributed by Bonnier Gaming Malta following a deal inked this week regarding the product, which uses advanced mobile and push technologies to deliver live betting facilities to punters on the move. Metric claims the platform is ideal for sports betting operators and had additional appeal for companies …
The UK Gambling Commission has launched its online application service for operators applying for an online gaming licence in the country…in good time for the expected deluge of offshore operators who will be seeking secondary licensing under Britain’s new requirements for operators seeking to access the British punter. All companies applying for a remote licence, …
Mr Green, the publicly listed online casino firm founded by former Betsson entrepreneurs, has posted a strong full year 2013 performance, with game win up 52.1 percent to SEK 483.5 million. Good growth rates in both game win and EBITDA over the full year were reported, with game win significantly larger than FY 2012 at …
Police in Kuching, Sarawak province were busy Thursday, raiding 17 premises in the city and in Padawan municipality and arresting fifteen people, including four foreign nationals on charges related to online gambling. The commander of the raiding force, DSP Mohd Azam Ismail, told reporters that the police confiscated 280 computers, 15 modem devices, cash and …
The research analysts at Traffic Generation have come up with another valuable and informative infographic on the behaviour of an increasingly important demographic – that of online and mobile social gamers – and the real value of efficient and responsive customer service. The full graphic can be viewed here: http://www.trafficgenerationltd.com/the-value-of-customer-service-in-social-casino-infographic/ Informed by a sample of …
Sheldon Adelson’s CSIG drive against online gambling will be pleased with the news that a new federal banning bill covering all but online poker is about to be introduced to Congress. The news broke Thursday in the Las Vegas Review Journal, which reported that Nevada Republican Senator Dean Heller is to present the bill – …
Juergen Reutter has been appointed online Operations Director for the William Hill plc gambling group after serving for the past 18 months as director of mobile operations for William Hill Online. He will remain based in Gibraltar. Reutter was educated at Stuttgart’s University of Applied Science and has worked in a number of management positions …
The Danish Gaming Authority (Spillemyndigheden) reports that 2013 has been a record year, with Danish gross online gaming revenues totalling 2.375 million Danish Kronor (DKK) after Q4-2013 delivered DKK380 million sports betting revenues; DKK260 million in online casino action; DKK 45 million in online and mobile poker; and total quarterly GGR of DKK 640 million …
The latest Isle of Man Budget Speech underlines the importance of the e-gaming industry now and in the future for the island economy, with Minister for Economic Development John Shimmin expressing pleasure this week at the economic progress that has been achieved despite difficult global economic conditions. Shimmin said in his budget address that his …
How’s this for a powerful communications channel? Facebook is placing a $19 billion bet on reaching its next billion mobile users with the acquisition of WhatsApp, a popular disappearing messaging service that lets people send texts, photos and videos on their smartphones. CTV News reports that Facebook is taking the long view in acquiring the …