The Ashes

While online gambling becomes ever more popular, who would have thought that there would be benefits for land casinos? In the most part – especially in the USA – Land casinos have been concerned that online gambling would cannibalize their existing business. But a new report from the University of Nevada reveals that the ‘economics [...]

While the name ‘Rank” might not ring any bells with all of you, the name Mecca Bingo probably will. Rank is the parent company for this massive British land bingo business, and Mecca has had bingo online for a good few years also. The company was recently in the news for having bought out many of [...]

While Black Friday was bad news for PokerStars, FullTiltpoker and a couple of other brands, it was really good news for small online poker networks still offering pay for play tables to USA players. Quite how they have managed to remain open, and not be closed down by the DoJ is a mystery to us, [...]

Hawaii is one of two US States which have no gambling legislation at all. This means there are no casinos, not even land casinos, and this beautiful State is now contemplating the introduction of legislation and regulation for gambling online. The other US state that has no regulation for gambling at all is Utah, and [...]

There is no doubt about the fact that software developers have to be innovative to stay in the business, and online gambling software developers may have to push the ticket a little bit more.  There is also no doubt that there is a great deal of money to be found in software designer and more [...]

A new and exciting, expanding content offering from Playtech’s Enhanced Gaming Engine platform (EdGE) is now offering Scientific Games the edge too. This new partnership sees two top-notch names in the online gambling industry to join forces and offer more fun.  They are calling this partnership Sciplay. This dynamic gaming entity is a JV initiative [...]

There are a number of Governments around the world that are ambiguous about allowing the online gambling industry into their countries. When we use the word ‘allowing’ it is with regards to licensing and regulating a formalized industry structure. We do not use it in relationship to ‘allowing’ online gambling for the end user, because [...]

Until very recently the US Department of Justice (DoJ) took a hard-line stance on all forms of online financial transactions with regards to Internet gambling and related activities. In their own words mere weeks ago “ALL forms of internet gambling throughout the USA” were considered to be illegal. However, a recently published legal position seems [...]

Unlike America, in France it is not forbidden to play online casino games such as poker, blackjack, bingo, slots and all the other famous games gamblers love. And nowadays it clearly appears that online casino rooms can attract more players than real casino can do. Indeed French casinos are actually going through a crisis since [...]

It has become almost a no-brainer that the development of Mobile Gambling apps is going to make money for operators in the online gambling industry. For example Paddy Power has just posted some amazing half-year financial results – and what do they give thanks to for this – not their lucky stars that’s for sure, [...]