Monday, August 27. 2007
Citing current ongoing equine influenza outbreak related issues, Centrebet International Limited stocks fell nearly 5% as the company attempts to asses how current horse racing restrictions will affect their bottom line. With restrictions on horse travel being implemented across several ...
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Saturday, August 25. 2007
With no less than 27 international companies, including Intercasino, Littlewoods and the Playboy Casino, moving their operations to Malta by month’s end, Malta has cemented itself as the “place to be” for the online gaming world. With 84 internet companies already there, 76 others having ...
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Thursday, August 23. 2007
Vibrator Bandit Sentenced After Raid A Leicester robber who held up a bookmaker’s shop using a vibrator disguised to look like a gun was sentenced to five years on Monday. Nicki Jex, 27, hid the sex toy in a plastic bag and robbed the Landbrokes bookmaking office of more than ...
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Wednesday, August 22. 2007
Gaming giant William Hill has cited a return to “business as usual” as the reason for its decision to move its operations from the Caribbean Dutch Antilles to Malta and Gibraltar. New amendments to the European Union’s 2005 Gambling Act were passed last week allow only gambling firms on a ...
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Monday, August 20. 2007
Louisiana State Police have arrested three men they claim ran an illegal internet gambling website after a month-long investigation. One of the arrested, Nicholas Jenkins of Seattle, Washington, is accused of owning and operating the website Betcha.com, which allowed ...
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Friday, August 17. 2007
Interactive Gambling has temporarily suspended its rapidly-crashing stock this week, citing “pending clarity of its financial position”. Despite purchasing Heathorns two years ago and bookmaker Premier Bet last year, shareholders should expect the worst according to Rodney Hobson of ...
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Wednesday, August 15. 2007
Swedish gambling company Unibet has removed its sponsorship from its title cycling team according to a company statement, leading the team itself to disband. “we expected it. The riders are free to look for a job with other teams” according to former team manager Koen ...
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Tuesday, August 14. 2007
Focus on the Family – the evangelical Christian coalition headed by James Dobson – has announced its support to the National Football League’s actions in opposition to proposed legislation in Congress that would legalize sports and online betting. The proposal, which was ...
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Monday, August 13. 2007
Britain’s largest independent bookmaker, BetFred has hired investment bank NM Rothchild to review their business. With 700 betting shops and ranking only behind the big three U.K bookmakers – Ladbrokes, William Hill and Coral, coupled with the volatility in the gaming market have led ...
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Saturday, August 11. 2007
Despite a quarterly loss of $2.6M in its second quarter, gambling software firm Cryptologic is optimistic about its upcoming fiscal year. At this time last year, the company reported a profit of $8.2M, a staggering change from this year, however the firm blames the downturn on relocation ...
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Friday, August 10. 2007
Government officials in the U.K. have announced new regulations aimed at removing advertising rights for gambling sites not based in a “white-list” country – effectively any country outside the European Economic area, according to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. ...
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Thursday, August 2. 2007
Despite slow-going in its poker and casino websites, British bookmaker William Hill announced a 2 percent rise in pre-tax profits in the first fiscal half of 2007, with a reported profit of around 134.2 million pounds ($272.6 million US). Analysts forecasted between 127.7 to 136.3 million ...
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Wednesday, August 1. 2007
A popular online poker player who is well known for video poker comedies on Youtube.com has focused his efforts on getting the California government to legalize online poker, according to the Secretary of State’s Office. Anthony Sandstrom, known as the online jokester “Tuff Fish” has been ...
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Tuesday, July 31. 2007
Sweden’s horse racing monopoly AB Trav och Galopp (ATG) has launched a lawsuit against Malta-based Unibet for an amount nearing $36 million, reports the Swedish news publication Travnet. The suit results from allegations that Unibet has been illegally using information from ATG’s database ...
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Thursday, July 26. 2007
On Tuesday, the tiny nation of Antigua and Barbuda presented a request to the World Trade Organization for the right to levy commercial sanctions against the United States, totaling $3.4 billion US, for failure to co-operate with the WTO’s ruling declaring America’s ban on foreign Internet ...
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