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08-01-2010 - NEW YEAR PROMOTION FOR GRIFFITHS Global marketing chief appointed president of Doyle online gambling operations The RTG-powered online casino and Cake Poker Network powered online poker operations at DoylesCasino.com andDoylesRoom.com have a new leader going into 2010 following the appointment of global marketing manager Will Griffiths as president of the company.
Griffiths joined Doyles in April 2009 and his new responsibilities will see him running the day-to-day overall management of the two popular sites.
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04-01-2010 - AUSSIE ONLINE GAMBLING A THREAT TO LAND JOBS? Club New South Wales reacts to Productivity Committee recommendations
As 2010 dawns, land gambling operators in Australia continue to attack the government's Productivity Commission recommendation that online gambling be legalised in the country.
In the latest of a series of attacks on the Commission's conclusions, land gaming operators inthe state of New South Wales warned the Australian federal government that competition from online casinos, if allowed, could cause ...
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04-01-2010 - TROUBLE AHEAD FOR THAI ONLINE LOTTERY
Political plans to do away with the enterprise could result in litigation The on again, off again, long running Thai government project to take the national lottery online was making local headlines in media like the Bangkok Post and The Nation again this week as Thai prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva announced yet another review of the delay-plagued project.
The Thailand Trade Representative's office will set up a committee to find ways ...
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04-01-2010 - ITALIAN SPORTSBETTING GIANT REJECTS TAKEOVER BID Private equity companies offered Euro 600 million The Italian business media are reporting an unsuccessful attempt to acquire control of the major Italian online sportsbetting firmSindacato Nazionale Agenzie Ippiche SpA (SNAI) by private equity firms Bridgepoint and Axa Private Equity, who reportedly offered Euro 600 million.
The publicly listed sports and horseracing betting firm has a debt burden of Euro 275 million and recently reported a ...
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04-01-2010 - CHINESE WARNING ON INTERNET GAMBLING Government's primary targets in 'internet purification' remain pornography and gambling The Chinese government used an announcement of Internet pornography prosecution statistics this week as a further opportunity to caution that online pornography, gambling and "...other sites deemed harmful to society" remained its primary targets in the "purification of the Internet."
Associated Press reports that Beijing's pervasive policing of cyberspace and attempts to block the Internet are already among the ...
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30-12-2009 - BIG DEAL FOR BOOKMAKER.COM Costa Rican firm acquires an additional two sportsbetting brands The respected and long-established online sportsbetting firm Bookmaker.com has announced its acquisition of two well known sportsbetting brands, Las Palmas and Bet Canadian for an undisclosed consideration.
Mickey Richardson, CEO of BookMaker.com said this week that the acquisition will guarantee customers premium service, benefits and advantages.
“Maintaining our growth strategy is critical for us and we continue to ...
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30-12-2009 - NEOGAMES GOES FARMING Online scratchcard games developer exploits a popular social gaming trend Farming-related applications are the most popular games on Chinese social networks, and the genre is booming on western sites like Facebook with offerings like Farmville, Farm Town and Country Story released by developers such as Zynga and Playfish. This week it appears that online scratchcard software developer Neogames has spotted the trend too, launching its own agricultural application to licensees.
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29-12-2009 - A NEW TWIST ON "WHAT ARE YOU SMOKING?" This one gives gamblers a real kick in the head Some superstitious South African gamblers intent on winning millions on the country's national lottery have apparently been indulging in a little 'chemical' assistance that gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "what have you been smoking?"
Their belief that smoking dried vulture brains and other ancient 'muti' (organic traditional medicines) has resulted in a depletion in the vulture ...
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29-12-2009 - ONLINE GAMBLING SITE REPAYS GAMBLER'S STOLEN CASH An unusual gesture by Internet gambling company In Sweden an unidentified online gambling company has voluntarily paid back 4.9 million kronor (around $673 000) stolen by a gambling addict from her employer and wagered at its website.
The unnamed problem gambler was in charge of an Uppsala company's finances and siphoned off some 15 million kronor to finance her gambling addiction. The embezzled funds had an ...
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29-12-2009 - MORE ISRAELIS PROSECUTED BY ANTI-GAMBLING COPS Internet gambling and tax charges flow from Bet and Chat online gambling bust The Jerusalem Post reports that police and prosecution officials have filed indictments in the Petah Tikva District Court against five suspects on charges of money laundering, facilitating illegal gambling, white collar theft, fraud, and tax embezzlement, alleging that between 2000 and 2002, they ran a network of almost 100 gambling computer programs situated in Internet cafes, kiosks and lottery stations ...
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28-12-2009 - WHERE HAVE ALL THE RUSSIANS GONE? Some to Latin America, it appears. The draconian government bans that shut down thousands of casinos and gambling parlours in Russia earlier this year spawned an exodus to the Internet, but also to lands both more climate and state-friendly...like Latin America.
This week the news magazine Time examined the phenomenon, reporting that some Russian casino owners are content to stay in the motherland and relocate ...
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22-12-2009 - KENTUCKY PLAYING CARDS CLOSE TO CHEST IN LATEST LEGAL MOVE Outsourced lawyers refuse to identify alleged US online gambling domain owners Recent moves by the state of Kentucky to claim jurisdiction in its domain case appeal because unidentified domain owners were Americans is under the media spotlight once again.
The principal opponent to the state's abortive move to seize international online gambling domain names, the Interactive Media Entertainment & Gaming Association, this week repreatedly requested that the outsourced lawyers working ...
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22-12-2009 - BETSSON CLOSES STOCKHOLM BETTING SHOP 18 month confrontation with Lotteriinspektionen ends in defeat
The spunky defiance of Swedish online gambling group Betsson in opening a land betting shop in Stockholm in the face of gaming authority threats has ended, eighteen months after it began.
This week the group closed its betting shop in Stockholm following an adverse decision by theSwedish Administrative Court of Appeal (Kammarrätten) and the threat of 2.5 million kronor ...
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18-12-2009 - CONFERENCE CORNER Taking a look at the Australian regulatory scene The Draft Report on Gambling has been released by the Productivity Commission and final recommendations are due to be presented to the Australian federal government in February 2010.
Gaming, Racing & Wagering Australia, a conference taking place from 22-23 March 2010 at Star City in Sydney, will take a comprehensive look at the implications of the Productivity Commission’s ...
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18-12-2009 - GAMING VC HOLDING ITS OWN Trading updates show improvements on previous year so far Despite the tough business environment, the European-facing online gambling group Gaming VC Holdings SA appears to be holding its own in a trading update issued midway through the final month of its trading year.
Excluding revenues from Betboo, the recently acquired South American online gaming business, the average daily revenues in Q4-09 have increased by 30 percent from the ...
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