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Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a bill into law December 30 thatwill close casinos and slot-machine halls across most of the country in afew years, forcing the establishments that have become a garish feature ofthe new Russian landscape into four legal gambling zones. The law alsooutlaws online gambling and online poker, and sets the minimum […]
The hypocrisy of government institutions that support general forms ofgambling, but ban Internet gambling on moral grounds has at last beenexamined by the international magazine Newsweek in it’s upcoming January 8issue. And the story has been picked up and distributed widely by otheronline and offline media.Titled “Morality vs. Money – nations say they attack Internet […]
PartyGaming has awarded more shares and multimillion-pound bonuses to itssenior executives, despite the group’s plunging share price, in a move thatcould irritate institutional shareholders. The online gambling group’s newmanagement incentive arrangements will take the new incentives and bonuspackage of Mitch Garber, the chief executive, to about £18.5 million.Although the figure was less than the £40.5 […]
A recovery in the online gaming economy act is gaining traction, accordingto several reports. The passage of the Unlawful Internet GamblingEnforcement Act by the US left a swath of economic misery in its wake, butefforts by the major players in the industry to refocus their energies onEurope and Asia are starting to pay dividends. Both […]
Some months ago Online-Casinos.com/InfoPowa reported on development work byGaming Partners International on hi-tech gambling chips with embeddedalarm-triggering tracers. In a sequel to the story this week, GPI hasannounced that the final product will be launched next month – probably atthe London ICE show. The anti-theft measures incorporated into the chipsconsist of an RFID-based Electronic Chip […]
Brian and Terry Leblanc were once a couple of average guys, spending theirdays washing windows and their nights drinking beer and watching sports ontelevision. In the late 1980s, the brothers won about $90,000 at Toronto’sWoodbine race track and decided to put that money toward more sportsbetting. Within a few years, the Leblancs were managing a […]
Part two in a series of news reviews covering the online casino and gamblingsector. May – Las Vegas Sands win a casino licence to build the firstcasino in Singapore, costing three billion dollars. A bid from Coventry tooperate one of the super casinos in the U.K was thrown out by thegovernment, leaving the city’s officials […]
Online gambling firm Partygaming has confirmed it is in talks to buy thegaming assets of smaller rival Empire Online. Analysts said the deal couldbe worth about $40m (£20.4m), and would probably include Empire’s NoblePoker and Club Dice Casino websites. Shares in Partygaming rose 2.5% on thenews in mid-day trading in London. The company has been […]
Noam Lanir, owner of the Empire Online, will sell his remaining shares inthe gambling company to rival PartyGaming for USD 40 million. A year and ahalf after the company was put up on the London Stock Exchange, Lanir seemsto be heading out of the gambling business. Lanir will use revenues from thesale of Empire, which […]
Israeli police have begun to crack down on internet gambling operators,including those who run backgammon websites. Some of the more prominentonline gambling firms are run by Israelis including PokerStars, 888.com andTitan Poker. While the majority of Israeli owned online gambling businessesare based out of places like Gibraltar and The Isle of Man (similar to USbusinessmen […]
Online Gambling Insider wishes everyone a very happy and prosperous festiveseason. May all your dreams come true, may the reels stop in the rightplaces, the cards fall right and the right teams win when you want themto….Merry Christmas and plain old happy holidays from all of us here atOnline Gambling Insider!We will soon announce our […]
Recent developments indicate the state-run lottery may be headed towardparticipation in a gigantic global online gaming system – with giantjackpots – never envisioned by California voters, says a watchdog group. Atthe same time, Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger – who appoints lotteryleaders – is on record in support of expanding the games to some unspecifieddegree, as […]
The only sign of Christmas on the casino floor is the poker dealer in theSanta hat, and Darren White is glad for that: the subcontractor from Georgiadidn’t come here to be reminded of the holidays, or anything, for thatmatter, outside these flashy, noisy walls. He came for the distraction. AndBoomtown Casino in suburban New Orleans, […]