Gambling Industry News

Betfair expands online games offering

Mazooma, the Nottingham-based digital gaming content company, has secured a contract with online gambling giant Betfair to distribute its game content ...

A.C. still mired in recession

Las Vegas may have seen some light at the end of the economic tunnel recently, but Atlantic City remains stobbornly in decline when it comes to ...

Inspired and silver heritage stay together

Dow Jones business news reports that the UK server based gaming group Inspired Gaming has extended its collaborative deal with Silver Heritage Limited ...

Conference corner

If your an affiliate or an affiliate program diarise April 15 and 16 and get your travel arrangements in order for Amsterdam in Holland, where the ...

Dragonfish again boosts 888.com results

888 Holdings released its trading update for the fourth quarter of 2009 and cumulative results for the twelve months ended 31 December 2009 this week ...

Czech online gambling operators cry 'no fair' on tax

Online gambling operators in the Czech Republic were sounding off this week on the draconian taxation burden they have to carry, making it difficult ...

South African company lands barcrest deal

The South African software developer Kiron Interactive, fresh from its appearance at ICEi, has announced that it has landed a contract with the UK ...

U.S. security service checking out online gambling

According to reports in the publication The Register this week, it was disclosed at the recent "Cybercrime in Betting and Gaming" conference in ...

Probability Q3 eases

Probability plc, the UK mobile gaming technology specialist reported in a trading update this week that that its latest Q3 performance displayed a ...

Visa joins Mastercard in US clampdown

The giant Visa card processing conglomerate has joined Mastercard in clamping down on Internet gambling transactions, according to growing reportage ...

Plus-five confirms ICEi launch success

Further to InfoPowa's ICEi report on the launch of white label supplier Plus-Five, the company has confirmed that it generated a gratifying amount of ...

New Betfair director is a retail finance expert

Betfair has added some retail experience muscle to its board of directors with the appointment this week of Marks and Spencers finance exec Ian Dyson ...

Aussie e-processing whizkid has A$50 million in debts

The spectacular fall from grace of a high-living, 25-year-old Aussie e-processing whiz was in the Australian media again this week as it was ...

Finnish firms to offer online poker and casino action

The Finnish Slot Machine Association (RAY) and its lottery counterpart Veikkaus have been given the government green light to push ahead with legal ...

Party Gaming Q4 results released

Online gambling group Party Gaming plc has reported a significant 32 percent rise in fourth quarter sales - a hopeful sign that punters are back ...

Q3 U.S online gambling lobbying up

The independent US research group BolaVerde Media reports that according to mandatory declarations made by lobbying companies in the third quarter of ...

Parlay signs three way online gambling deal

The Canadian online bingo specialist Parlay Entertainment Inc. has announced a three-way relationship with Atacmedia and Beast Gaming, which it is ...

E-processor held in contempt

The Dow Jones news service reports that a federal appeals court on Monday upheld a contempt order for refusing to comply with a grand-jury subpoena ...

Playtech sets the pace with new mobile platform

Online gambling software group Playtech Casinos plc, has introduced its new playing platform for Mobile gaming. The new Mobile Web Apps is the latest ...

Good news from France

One of the more controversial provisions in France's new gambling liberalisation legislation - that applicants shut down their existing lists of ...

Cherryfortragen deal will help it bring land and online interests together

Cherryforetagen, the land based casino element in Sweden's publicly listed gambling group Cherry, is said to be making moves on the a wider front that ...

Italian TV games channel planned

Italian market moves this week have seen the announcement of a new venture between the Italian ISP Tiscali and games software distributor Nexway Games ...

Iovation catches online fraudsters

The Portland, Oregon-based Internet security company Iovation reported at the ICEi show this week that its operating statistics prove that 30 000 ...

Medicorp raises GBP 870 000 for acquisitions

Justin Drummond, chief executive of online publishing group Media Corporation will soon be on the acquisition trail, having raised GBP 870 000 by ...