Gambling Industry News

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 ...

Asian live dealer provider moving west

Jason Chan's live dealer company Entertasia is to build on its Asian success with a foray into the West, having recently signed a partnership ...

ICEi Day 2

Having covered most of the major companies in the industry and their latest products on Day 1, InfoPowa focused on lesser known but still very much ...

Sportingbet to offer live dealer action

The UK Online Gambling Sportingbet has announced that it is to augment its wide range of gambling options with the addition of live dealer action ...

New Dawn for Kahnawake gaming commission?

There have been rumours for months about a new-look Kahnawake Gaming Commission emerging as the regulator discussed the future with its licensee ...

New Dawn for Kahnawake gaming commission?

There have been rumours for months about a new-look Kahnawake Gaming Commission emerging as the regulator discussed the future with its licensee ...

ICEi Day 3

Concluding the InfoPowa report on the 2010 ICEi show in London, it has been encouraging to note over the past three days that the dynamic and upbeat ...

Spin3 lands Eastern European mobile contract

Spin3, Microgaming Casinos's specialist associate in the mobile gambling sector, has inked an Eastern European deal for a mobile casino with gambling ...

EU advocate general upholds primacy of EU law

A decision this week by the EU Advocate General that EU law holds primacy over national legislation has been applauded by the European Gaming and ...

Moneybookers gaining ground

The online payment facility Moneybookers has released an end-of year 2009 trading statement revealing that it has achieved several milestones ...

The Atlanta story isn't done yet

The resignation of David Barber, former head of Alabama Governor Bob Riley's anti-gambling task force, on disclosures of gambling activity in ...

Dikshit divests remaining interest in Party Gaming

PartyGaming plc founder Anurag Dikshit sold his remaining stake in the ownership of the PartyGaming.com Online Gambling group this week, a company he ...

Virgin gets EdGE-y

Playtech Casinos's second ICEi announcement concerns the tier one UK online casino operator Virgin Casino, which has signed up with Playtech's soft ...

William Hill re-signs with Virtue Fusion Alderney

Online bingo provider Virtue Fusion Alderney, has announced that it has renewed its agreement with William Hill plc, one of the best-known names in ...