Fresh from acquiring Hattrick Sports Group, multi-channel betting operator Fortuna Entertainment has agreed a further €47m of acquisitions with Romania's Fortbet.
This week sees new slot games rolled out by Quickspin and iSoftBet, another content integration deal for Pariplay, a new virtual sports deal for VSoftCo [...]
Casinos Austria's iGaming arm win2day and state-owned Finnish operator Veikkaus have launched their cross-border poker network to allow players from each country to compete against one [...]
West Virginia lawmaker Shawn Fluharty has introduced a bill to legalise internet gambling.
The Minister-Presidents of Germany's 16 federal states have ratified the country's amended State Treaty on Gambling, setting up a showdown with the European Commission which [...]
Malta-based iGaming solutions provider Aspire Global has announced the launch of a new online casino Slotsmoon.com.
Ahead of the launch of its new horse race betting offering, French online betting provider France-Pari has entered into advanced talks to acquire Betnet.fr, the French online horse race betting operator which was put into receivership last month by the Tribunal de Commerce de Compiègne.
Following last month’s ruling by the European Court of Justice which backed Rank Group’s claims that the UK’s VAT law was in breach of the EU law principle of fiscal neutrality, Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has confirmed that it will not contest the company’s claims for overpaid VAT [...]
Online betting exchange Betfair Group plc has appointed Gerald Corbett as its new deputy chairman, with Corbett joining the company’s board on January 3rd 2012 and set to succeed Edward Wray as Betfair’s chairman during the first quarter of 2012.
QuickFire, the instant gaming system powered by online gaming developer Microgaming, has signed a deal to supply its online casino software to Mandalay Holdings’ online bingo brand, XBingo.
Net Entertainment has revealed that a €11.7m prize won on the company’s Mega Fortune progressive jackpot slot on Betsson.com back in September has been officially recognised as the largest online slots jackpot ever by the Guinness World Records.
Shares in The Weather Lottery plc slumped more than 19 per cent in London yesterday after the company said that it expects to report pre-tax losses of £740,000 for the six month period ended July 31st.
United States Attorney Carmen Ortiz has secured the first ever online gambling conviction under the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA).
Daniel Eremian, the brother-in-law of US Congressman John Tierney, was convicted yesterday alongside Todd Lyons of racketeering (RICO), racketeering conspiracy, operating an illegal gambling business and wire act offences.
Lyons was also [...]
The Tasmanian government has come under fire following the sale of Tote Tasmania to Australia’s Tatts Group for AUD$103m, with opposition leader Will Hodgman calling on the country’s Parliamentary Select Committee to investigate what he claims to be a “dodgy” sale process.
Betfair Group plc has appointed GTECH G2’s Nick Hagen as sports operations director, where he will oversee trading operations and the development of Betfair's risk based systems.
MGM Resorts International has secured a temporary restraining order against two businesses and four individuals who have registered poker related internet domain names which allegedly infringe the casino operator’s trademarks.
The defendants, Revnet LLC, Pokersons, Shahram Kolahzadeh, Evan Krentzman, Roberto Ciamillo and Adam Majewski, have between them registered a total of [...]
German state lottery operator WestLotto was left fuming last week after a court junction was granted banning the sale of advent calendar scratch cards following a complaint by online lottery broker Tipp24.
The Bonn District Court issued the injunction, stating that the Christmas themed scratch card constituted an inducement to gamble [...]
Online poker room PokerStars has smashed its own Guinness World Record for the largest ever online poker tournament following a $1 event yesterday which saw 200,000 players take part.