Online Gambling News

"Packer Meeting Fuels Online Gambling Deal Fears"

James Packer, executive chairman of the Australian company, Publishing and Broadcasting Limited (PBC), announced last Monday, that after a meeting with the Tasmanian Government, it was agreed to allow the licensing of Internet betting exchanges.
Read Full Article

"Web Bookies Demand Higher Security Standards"

Hackers typically threaten e-commerce websites with attacks that can paralyze their sites if the companies don’t pay up. The compromised security, which comes as a series of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, has the potential to ruin online gambling companies because they can effectively slow the ISP’s network.
Read Full Article

"Who Will Be the Next Pope"

When we are curious about the outcome of the next elections or who the next pontiff will be, we traditionally look to the opinion polls, the journalists and the pundits to predict such historical events. A better and more accurate place may be to look are the online betting sites. Do you want proof of their accuracy?.
Read Full Article

"Internet Gambling"

Scams, cons, and frauds are always hanging about wherever there is money to be made. This applies equally to online gambling and even though most Internet casinos are legitimate, players still need to be careful and need to watch out for those people and those sites intent on cheating players out of their money.
Read Full Article

"Betfit.com Releases New Betting Exchange for Online Gambling"

A new era in the ever-evolving online gambling industry has just begun. A Costa Rica based company, BetFit Global Entertainment, a betting exchange, is now online.
Read Full Article

"British Gov't to Set Up Gambling Commission"

The British Parliament has passed the Gambling Bill in spite of all the doubts from industry analysts. However, the Bill was designed to upgrade and improve Britain’s old-fashioned gaming regulations, and hardly addressed the online gambling industry.
Read Full Article

"Chartwell Technology Welcomes Move Towards Online Gambling"

Britain has become the first G-7 country to establish a set of rules and regulations for the online gambling industry. Britain’s approval this week of legislation that will introduce regulated online gambling has many people in the Internet gambling industry cheering.
Read Full Article

"OnlineCasinoHelper.com Becomes the First Independent Online Gambling Portal "

www.onlinecasinohelper.com, steadfastly maintains its position as an independent online gambling portal and is grimly determined not to become a forum for online casinos to promote their services.
Read Full Article

"Quality Online Gambling at New Prestigious Online Casinos"

Visitors to the site "Gamblingland.net" have to be impressed with the wide variety of gaming options, the high quality gaming environment and the great services offered.
Read Full Article

"WTO May Rule Against US in Online Gambling Case ."

The tiny island nation of Antigua, who are reliant to a large extent on the tourist trade for its economy, has suffered significantly since it was battered by a series of hurricanes in 1990 which scared away the tourists. The tourists have found other holiday places and have who have not returned.
Read Full Article

"WTO Rules in Online Gambling Dispute"

The long awaited World Trade Organization's ruling on Antigua's case against the U.S. has been delivered and the U.S. isn't altogether celebrating. Antigua, the initiator of the action, argued that U.S. restrictions prohibiting Americans from playing at online gambling sites are harming Antigua's economy and are in violation of the General Agreement on Trades and Services (GATS), is quite satisfied with the outcome of the case.
Read Full Article

"Betting Against the Odds"

The result of the U.S. appeal of the World Trade Organization's ruling regarding the tiny island of Antigua and its attempts to make online gambling available to U.S. citizens, is of cardinal importance to those involved in the online gambling industry.
Read Full Article

"Blackjack: Beyond the Basics"

Here are some long-forgotten pointers which are not usually included in the standard list of strategies and tips offered to blackjack players. They are worth learning and the new information should provide the player with that little bit of extra confidence when he sits down at the blackjack table to play.
Read Full Article

"Gaming Transactions Inc. Enters into Million Dollar Ad Buy Agreement for Keno.Com"

Gaming Transactions Inc. licenses www.Keno.com, is an online gambling site, where players have a number of different gaming options to choose from. The company also develops and provides games and management services for Internet gambling industries.
Read Full Article

"LuckyMe Goes out of business"

LuckyMe, the United Kingdom online gambling site owned by Harrahs, posted significant losses for the past year. The owners have decided to discontinue operations and have closed down the company.
Read Full Article

"Online Casino 888.com Considers UK Float"

New estimates foresee the online gambling market will soon reach over $10 billion a year with Poker driving most of the growth. Currently, sports betting represents about 45% of the market and other online gambling games represent 32%, but analysts predict that Poker will outrun both of them in the next few years.
Read Full Article

"Online Gambling Soars "

A quick look at the development of online gambling supports a forecast of phenomenal growth. In 1996 there were only thirty online gambling sites with annual revenues of 30 million dollars. Since that time, however, the online gambling industry has exploded, with the number of Poker web sites now roughly at two thousand and revenues having catapulted to a whopping 9.2 billion dollars annually.
Read Full Article

"Trends: Hot or Not "

The phenomenal growth of the Internet 90s, also gave rise to online gambling. This industry has seen incredible growth in the past few years and now analysts are predicting that this year will be the industry’s biggest yet.
Read Full Article

"3 States May Legalize Online Gambling "

The State Representative of North Dakota, Jim Kasper, has proposed legislation, which has already passed the house, to permit online Poker sites to operate legally within the state. Kasper's argument was that legalizing Internet Poker would eliminate the state's need for tax increases, as online gambling is already a proven money spinner.
Read Full Article

"Turkey to Crack Down on Online Gambling"

Turkey is implementing several measures that will obstruct access and use of internet gambling sites.
Read Full Article

" First Online Gambling Company to Receive a US Trademark "

Bodog.com, founded by Calvin Ayre, has made history. It is the first online gambling company to receive a United States trademark.
Read Full Article

"WTO Offshore Gambling Ruling Leaves No Clear Winner "

The long-awaited WTO appellate body, in a ruling last Thursday regarding the legitimacy of U.S. offshore gambling policies, suggests that neither the U.S. nor Antigua and Barbuda can claim victory or loss. Most readers of the verdict say that it actually rules both in favor and against the two parties.
Read Full Article

"Chartwell Welcomes Passage of Online Gambling Bill "

The passage of legislation (The Gaming Bill) in the UK will introduce regulated online gambling. So far the Bill has been received positively by those in the online gambling industry.
Read Full Article

"Rise in Mobile Online Casino Gambling"

Remember back in the late 90s, when you wanted to gamble, it meant heading over to Atlantic City or Las Vegas or Reno? Well, all of that has changed. All you need now is a computer, hand-held device or mobile phone and who knows where it will go from here?
Read Full Article

"Online Gambling Hub Raises the Stakes, Showcases Over 120 Virtual Casinos"

Global Casinos Mall has created a virtual Las Vegas strip on the internet where players can get out of one online casino, go back to the casino mall and then go to the next online gambling site without ever leaving the Global Casinos Mall online gambling center.
Read Full Article

"The Web: New Rules for Online Gambling "

With the recent World Trade Organization’s ruling, which permits the U.S. government to regulate Internet gambling, the WTO has tacitly ruled that Internet gambling is legal under international law. This, of course, will make more and more people view online gambling as a legitimate activity.
Read Full Article

"Broadband Fuels Online Gambling Boom"

In February 2005 alone, approximately 14 million Europeans visited and gambled on an online gambling and sweepstake Internet site. France and Sweden registered as the countries with the highest number of Internet gamblers.
Read Full Article

"Who Was Really the Winner from the WTOs Gambling Decision? "

The reason for the total confusion over the WTO’s ruling is that the WTO agreed with the both the U.S.’s “public morals” defense, and with Antigua and Barbuda’s claim that American policies on online gambling are in violation of free trade practices. Both sides are claiming victory and no one seems to understand who won.
Read Full Article

"The Gaming Jackpot: Gambling Stocks are Hot and Things are Getting Even Better"

Anyone looking to make money out of gambling would be well advised to consider buying gambling stocks. They have become some of the hottest stocks on the market globally. In Canada gambling stocks are buzzing. A $10,000 investment in Canadian land-based gambling stocks would have earned nearly $23,000, a 127% return.
Read Full Article

"The French Out Bet the British in Online Gambling"

Internet gambling sites give the French the freedom to gamble how they please. Without the internet this would not be so. Now that the facts and figures are all in, we can see that the French spend more time playing on Internet gambling sites than their British counterparts do.
Read Full Article

"Online Gambling Traffic up 45% in UK"

Nielsen/NetRatings the Internet rating company recently reported that the UK's online gambling traffic is up 45 percent on last year's figure.
Read Full Article

"New Online Gambling Site Brings Summit Entertainment Group to the Internet "

Traditionally a land-based casino and entertainment company, Summit Entertainment Group has recently joined the Internet gambling business and plans to have its new gambling site, LuckySummit.com ready and operational by May 1st 2005.
Read Full Article

"Multi-player InterActive from Reality Interactive Media Gives Online Gambling a New Dimension"

There are still some traditional die-hard gamblers who refuse to gamble over the Internet. Their main complaint is that the Internet does not give the personal interaction that land-based casinos do. "It's just not the same!" they say, in spite of the dramatic rise in popularity of online gambling.
Read Full Article

"Internet Sweepstakes: Online Gambling or Harmless Promotion?"

Sweepstakes games have arrived on the Internet just like all other forms of online gambling. And the popularity of these gambling sites is meteoric. Internet gambling is illegal in the U.S. and there are those who argue that online sweepstakes are just another form of online gambling.
Read Full Article

"Online Gambling on the Rise in Europe"

The growth of gambling sites is simply mind-boggling! And now the phenomenon is invading Europe. Nielsen/Net ratings reports a 45% increase this year in online gambling in the UK. Over 3 million UK gamblers logged into a single casino site in the month of February! Europe is following close behind.
Read Full Article