Archive for January 2010

For a number of years, New Jersey legislators are worried about the Chinese business partner of MGM Mirage, one of the largest land casinos in the world. MGM Mirage now has the answer, leaving Atlantic City. The casino company plans to sell half of the company. MGM Mirage has already looked around for buyers but [...]

Advocate General Yves Bot of the European Court of Justice has released an opinion against the German ban on sports betting in a lawsuit involving Winner Wetten. Bot confirms that European law rules over national gambling legislation, and therefore an exception or transitional period is not allowed. Last month the Court of Justice began hearing [...]

The government of the Isle of Man, a crown dependency in the Irish Sea, has announced that they will amend the rules for gambling, Internet gambling businesses can now base their non-gambling related activities on the island without the mandatory need for a OGRA gaming license. This means that activities such as marketing, administration, software [...]

The founder of one of the largest online casino software developers, Anurag Dikshit of Party Gaming has asked investment bank Goldman Sachs to sell his remaining 38.8 million shares in the internet poker and casino operator. The news follows a similar action in October, when Dikshit sold 188 million pounds in shares. Anurag Dikshit is [...]

One of the biggest online casino software developers worldwide, Playtech has announced that it has concluded a strategic agreement with industry leader in state lotteries, technology and prepaid cards, Scientific Games Corporation. The aim of the cooperation is to jointly develop a new generation of Internet casinos and land casino products and services to offer [...]

An American slot machine developer for land casinos has announced that they will launch an online gaming company focused on the UK market, in preparation for the opening of the market in other countries so they can do business there once things change. WMS Gaming is licensed to sell their gaming machines in more than [...]

VASCO Data Security a leading software security company specialized in authentication products, announced today that PartyGaming, a leading online casino software company, has decided to increase protection of her online Party-brand customers. PartyGaming has chosen a two-factor authentication using the VACMAN® Controller, VASCO’s authentication server technology and equip customers with a custom PartySecure authenticator. In [...]

Calvin Ayre, founder of Bodog online casino and an icon for the Internet gambling industry, has encouraged his competitors to join forces to help Haiti recover from the devastating earthquake that has put the country in ruins. Ayre has promised on its website to match the highest donation from the industry up to $1.000.000. Ayre [...]

Last year several rumours suggested that SEGA would introduce an online casino and poker site, that rumours were confirmed when SEGA received a license from Alderney Gambling Control Commission (AGCC). It was then announced that one of the largest online casino software developers, Playtech would develop the software for the Sega casino. We are in [...]

There is a new trend in online gambling, online casinos which focus on female audience. The enormous popularity of Internet gambling means that more women will gamble online while their husband is at work, that popularity also causes an increase of female problem-gamblers. Henrietta Bowden-Jones, a psychiatrist at the National Problem Gambling Clinic in England [...]