From 1st to 31st December bet365 are celebrating the 12 Levels of Christmas by giving players lots of amazing goodies. No, not geese a-laying. Not swans a-swimming or lords a-leaping or even maids a-milking. Certainly not a partridge in a pear tree. What they’re giving away is definitely much better than any of the stuff that a certain Christmas carol...
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Barney Frank announced on Monday that he will be retiring from US office at the end of his current term. The colourful Massachusetts Democratic Rep and Chairman of the Financial Services Committee said that he will not be seeking re-election in 2012. He has championed the cause for regulated US online gambling and player protection ever...
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Serbia’s national association of gaming operators, JAKTA, are celebrating the news that their government will be introducing legislation that will pave the way for regulated online gambling in Serbia. Seems JAKTA have been doing a lot of work to convince the Serbian government that regulation is the way to go. President, Mirjana Acimovic, had this...
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Roxy Palace are one of the older Microgaming casinos, taking their first online bet back in 2002. But they are new to live dealers having only recently added then to their site…and they’ve done a good job of it too by the looks. The Roxy Palace live casino has been given prominence on the website...
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Playtech already lay claim to being the world’s largest (by market cap.) online casino software company and it looks like they want to get a little bigger with the announcement of a £100 million share issue. 46.5 million shares will be offered to the public at a slight discount to Playtech’s (PTEC) current share price...
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888 put out a release today telling the world they’ve launched a new instant casino with (in their words), “smooth transitions, amazing graphics and sleek new games”. Happy for them, but I wasn’t overly excited by the news until skim reading further into the piece and seeing that they are giving their live games more...
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You’d be forgiven for thinking that the only focus of the EU Parliament right now is how to save the Greece and Italy from bankruptcy. Not so. Today the European Parliament voted in favour of more coordination and common standards with respect to online gambling, adopting the measures recommended in the Creutzmann report. Online gambling...
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According to NetroMedia’s manager of technical services William Heatherington it is. NetroMedia provide video streaming technology services and they’ve been engaged by platform developer Visionary iGaming to add five new video streams by the end of this year – so they’re obviously pretty familiar with the challenges and complexities of delivering live games to players’ computers....
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Genting, the company behind Singapore’s Resorts World Sentosa, have unveiled plans to build the world’s largest casino in Miami. Current Florida law only permits casinos to operate within Native American tribal lands – making the Seminole Indians the state’s monopoly operator. But a bill being considered by the legislature will change this, allowing for the...
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Australia’s long held legal position with respect to online casinos may be set for an overhaul. A parliamentary inquiry is currently reviewing the Interactive Gaming Act which has been in place for over a decade now and the inquiry’s Chairman, Independent MP Andrew Wilkie, has said that a move toward a regulated market is being considered. “We...
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