Online Gambling News
Below is a list of the latest casino news.
NHTCU was an acronym that once struck fear into the hearts of the Internet ungodly, achieving some outstanding law enforcement successes against DDOS crooks and other cyber-offenders, but it's now being used to flog German holidays, reports the IT media this week.
The acronym was for Britain's National Hi-Tech Crime Unit, formed in 2001 to liaise with similar cyber-crime busting agencies around the world to fight high tech crime, bu...
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Players using the SkyPoker.com platform should see a dramatic improvement in speed, according to company spokesmen this week - the firm has refreshed and perked up the website and software, and claims the operation is six times faster.
"Responding to customer demand, skypoker.com now runs six times faster than the previous version with cards being dealt more quickly to the new look tables," a company spokesperson said this week. "O...
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Canbet, the online sportsbetting, poker and casino subsidiary of Australia's International All Sports Limited (IAS) has posted a negative pre-tax result of A$6.41 million, contributing to the lacklustre performance of its parent group, which recorded a pre-tax los...
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Betbull plc, an online and retail sportsbetting group that includes PrimeBet.com announced the release its group consolidated unaudited financial statements for the half year to 30 June 2008 this week, showing an impressive turnaround in its business fortunes.
Financial highlights for the period included:
* Betting stakes of Euro 50.9 million for the half year, up 28 percent comp...
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The Finnish online gambling company Ĺlands Penningautomatförening (PAF) has inked a 3 year shirt sponsorship deal with the Spanish Primera Liga football club Atlético de Madrid.
Sporting Business reports that as a new Atlético sponsor, the PAF logo will appear both on the players' shorts and on their training gea...
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The future environment for gambling in the Czech Republic is none too bright, it appears. The Czech news agency CTK reports that gambling in the Republic is under the spotlight as politicians and Finance Ministry civil servants draft new laws to better protect the public, the underaged and the vulnerable as well as keeping criminal involvement at bay.
This week the Czech Ethnic Minorities and Human Rights Minister Dzamila Stehlikova...
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Playtech plc, the Isle of Man headquartered online gambling software and games developer, has released another impressive set of results with its half year report for the six months ended 30 June 2008 showing continued growth.
Financial highlights from the company's interim statement this week show:
* Total Reve...
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The Isle of Man based e-cash processor Neteller plc has released its half year results, reporting on the six months to end June 2008 and claiming a 'solid' performance as the company continues to diversify into European and Asian markets.
First half operations showed continued growth with the following operational highlights:
* Continued investment in...
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The Fortune Lounge group affiliate program, Fortune Affiliates, is the first i-gaming affiliate program to achieve accreditation under the new eCOGRA Affiliate Trust inspection and monitoring regime, and put up its new seal of approval this week.
eCOGRA is an independent, non-profit...
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Two of the three Betsson group founders, Fredrik Sidfalk and Henrik Bergquist, have been busy for the past few months gearing up an online gambling operation powered by Swedish provider NYX Interactive and branded Mr. Green.com.
Steered by managing director Mikael Pawlo, who heads a 10 man team, the new venture has...
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Poker has a great and expanding future in the vast Chinese gambling market, and appeals to mahjong and big-deuce players because of the similarities with mathematical odds and strategy, say experts in the game in a report carried this week in the Hong Kong Standard newspaper.
The article is topical with the 2008 APT just completed in Macau , and the APPT commencing in the region, amid...
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The Greek gambling monopoly OPAP is spreading its wings with plans to tender for the Turkish government's Milli Piyango lotto, which is being privatised. OPAP's chief, Christos Hadjiemmanouil, revealed this week that his company, in partnership with Turkish business groups Dogus, which owns Garanti Bank, FIBA and contractor Alarco is submitting a tender.
Speaking to the Greek newspaper Daily Kathimerini over the weekend, Hadjiemmano...
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London-listed PartyGaming plc, one of the industry's largest online gambling groups, has announced that three of its key operations have passed the stringent Safe and Fair accreditation process of the player protection and standards non-profit organisation eCommerce and Online Gaming Regulation and Assur...
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The online poker company formerly known as 24hPoker, Entraction Holding AB in Sweden and Malta has posted a commendable net profit of SEK 8.4 million - all the more remarkable when compared to last year's SEK 11.3 million loss.
Net revenues of SEK 77.6 million were achieved, 48.4 percent up on the same period in 2007, with casino revenues growing at SEK 14.6 millio...
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Spain's remarkable libralisation of gambling continued this week with the news that Ekasa, a joint venture between Basque gaming companies, has opened the region's first betting shop in Bilbao.
Additional shops are planned for the area, including Eibar and Vitoria. Each of licensee is allowed to open 25 betting shops with a maximum of 500 terminals under the new licencing regime.
The opening coincides with the return of football...
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