Monthly Archives: September 2008
Free Online Gambling Website Sparks legal Controversy
Significant controversy has been sparked between professional and anti-gambling personalities, following the release of an online gambling website by the San Diego Pauma Band of Mission Indians tribe. Powered by…
Online Gaming Affiliate Company Awarded eCOGRA’s First Affiliate Trust Seal
Fortune Affiliates has just been awarded eCOGRA’s recently introduced “Affiliate Trust Seal.” This is the first online gaming affiliate program ever to recieve it. The non-profit organization ad authority of…
State-Run Sportsbetting Market in Sweden to be Liberalized
The Swedish media has recently reported that the days of a having its online sportsbetting run by the state could soon come to a close. The news comes after the…
Bwin Suffers Serious Internet Gambling Loss to Turkish Licensors
According to Reuters news agency, the Austrian internet gambling group Bwin Interactive Entertainment has lost no less that $3.22 million following the rejection of its application for a sportsbetting license…
Increase in online gambling while Ike is in town
This week it is Hurricane Ike that has impacted land casinos.The US coast has been battered by storms and hurricanes over the past couple of months and judging from the…
Brain by Bingo? Science proves positive effects.
Because of the increasing popularity of the game, professionals are studying the game. It seems that bingo stimulates the grey matter and is not only for the grey haired. Old…
Match fixing and sports book turns strawberries into raspberries
Fifth ranked tennis player, Nikolay Davydenko is once again in the limelight not for his performance on the tennis courts as much as for purported fixes and match-throwing. About a…
It is NOT online gambling it is online marketing!
Regulators have not yet come to a decision regarding the recently launched website. Academic, Prof I Nelson Rose however sides with tribe, “if you cannot lose, it is not online…
Macau casinos gain revenue but stocks continue to dip
Simon Cheung, an analyst with Goldman Sachs said that he was surprised at the remarkable casino gains of some 44% reported in the local news. He thinks that it may…
Another online casino from CasinoRewards opens in November 2008
The new online casino will have to compete with the other online casinos in the CasinoRewards group and the competition is fairly stiff. GoldenTigerCasino, one of the online casinos of…