Betfair are the latest OpenBet customer to use its market-leading B2B back-end platform to manage their mobile sports-betting capabilities. This year is already being heralded as the year that mobile gaming has finally made its mark. Recent figures show that mobile is becoming an ever more important channel within the online gaming industry as the [...]

The ongoing electronic bingo corruption trial heard testimony today from Country Crossing developer Ronnie Gilley that he was conned by VictoryLand owner Milton McGregor, the Montgomery Advertiser reported. Gilley, who has already pleaded guilty, claimed McGregor and other casino owners misled him that two bills would be “paired together”, the report said. Gilley hoped for [...]

Causing waves in Finland is the news this week that one of the charitable foundations that the Slot Machine Association (RAY) helped with cash contributed money to the presidential campaign of prime minister Matti Vanhanen. With critical comment swirling around it over the revelations, RAY has assured the public that its donations regulations are to [...]

Online scratchcard site Hopa.com reports that a regular French player on the site, LydieA has just hit a Euro 100 000 windfall on the scratchcard game SuperSlot 7. The player had staked Euro 10 when she hit the biggest prize yet at the website, which launched in March this year. Clearly delighted by her good [...]

Webis Holdings has reported a 20 percent hike in annual revenues to GBP 140 million and a return to profit, thanks mainly to a sterling performance by online sportsbook subsidiary BetInternet. The group posted a profit of GBP 452 000, a welcome reversal from a loss of GBP 347 000 in the previous year, and [...]

A report released this week by the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government in the United States reveals that state revenues from licensed and legal gambling enterprises declined by 2.8 percent in fiscal year 2009 compared with the same period last year. The decrease represents the largest decline in 30 years. “For the First Time, [...]

The huge choice of online Bingo sites to be found on the Internet can make choosing one to play a little daunting, especially if you’re new to Bingo and haven’t got an existing loyalty to an established land-based club such as Mecca or Gala Bingo that now offers online Bingo too. Using an independent review [...]

Planet Hollywood has agreed to pay a $750,000 fine to Nevada gaming regulators, admitting that resort officials were lax in policing illegal activity inside the Privé nightclub. The Gaming Control Board has told the resort industry that properties need to control actions inside the nightclubs that traditionally lease space in casinos and are operated independently. [...]

CryptoLogic Limited, a world leader in Internet casino and branded gaming software, has signed a multi-year agreement to provide at least 10 of its most popular online slot games to Sportingbet.com, one of the world’s largest online gaming companies. Sportingbet.com is a top online provider of sports betting, casino games and poker, doing business in [...]

Controversial industry reporter, Thomas Somach, has come under attack for linking Holocaust Museum killer, James von Brunn, to the online casino industry. Somach discovered that von Brunn’s hate-filled website contained a link to an online casino website and assumed him to be an affiliate of that company. Somach is a proprietor of the website www.pokerhelper.com [...]