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German Soccer Organizations Consider Entering Bookmaking Business
27 April 2005
The German Soccer League (DFL) and the German Soccer Association (DFB) are planning to launch soccer betting products at the start of the 2006/07 season. The two organizations will ask members this week to sign off on their proposal to launch their own betting services.»
Nambling Notes - April 27, 2005
27 April 2005
In today's Nambling Notes: Ladbrokes takes wagers on the second Big Bird Race, Quova inks a deal with Playtech and more.»
Global Policy Review - April 2005
26 April 2005
Each month IGN delivers the latest in international policy developments that could affect the I-gaming business. From dealings between nations to actions taken by international organizations, it's a digest of the latest in global policy.»
The Top 10s
26 April 2005
It's the Hitwise Top 10 "Entertainment - Gambling" sites for the week ending April 23. This week:
Singapore
1. Singapore Pools
2. AsianBookie.com
3. 888.com
4. sb1888.com
5. AB Disc. Board		 6. 888royal.com
7. Active Odds
8. Ladbrokes
9. Sport Bookie
10. Internet1x2.com
More lists this way. . . »
Nambling Notes - April 26, 2005
26 April 2005
In today's Nambling Notes: The Racing Post and Racing UK plan a horse racing content and wagering site with streaming video, MyBookie.com to be featured prominently in an upcoming movie involving an online gambler and plus more.»
Market Briefs - April 18-22, 2005
26 April 2005
Dozens publicly held interactive gaming companies are reporting, acquiring, floating, spinning off, merging, de-listing, rising and falling in stock markets all over the world. Every week IGN wraps the financial happenings of the Net betting biz from the previous week into a nifty little package just for you.»
Illinois Gets Closer to Authorizing Internet Lottery Sales
25 April 2005
Illinois is taking steps toward becoming the first U.S. state to bring its lottery online. The state's Senate has passed a bill that would create a pilot program allowing state residents to purchase lottery tickets on the Internet.»
Nambling Notes - April 25, 2005
25 April 2005
In today's Nambling Notes: An e-commerce solution that doesn't require debit or credit cards, Bingo.com takes on real-money bingo, English Harbour and Sportech roll out new sites and more.»
Weekly Nambling Notes
23 April 2005
A review of news briefs for the week of April 18-22.»
America's New Exchange
22 April 2005
The minds behind the grandfather of betting exchanges are set to make their mark on the 21st century person-to-person betting industry.»
Nambling Notes - April 22, 2005
22 April 2005
In today's Nambling Notes: The next Betfair saga in Tasmaniza, Interactive Gaming Holdings signs on with Orbis and more.»
They're Baaack - Next Round of Subpoenas Targets Esquire
21 April 2005
Any thoughts that the interactive gambling industry's advertising dilemma was nearing an end were debunked this week by news of subpoenas handed out on April 12 to Esquire magazine publisher Kevin O'Malley and nearly a dozen members of the magazine's staff.»
'Free' Advertising in the USA
21 April 2005
Online gambling operators seem to have two choices when deciding how to advertise their sites in the United States: They can either go about promoting their business with blatant disregard for the Department of Justice or they can pitch free-play sites. Some operators have continued to advertise their real-money sites via the few media outlets willing to run the ads in the face of DOJ pressure, while others are developing free-play promotional strategies. The latter approach at the moment seems to present more opportunities.»
Nambling Notes - April 21, 2005
21 April 2005
In today's Nambling Notes: The next Betfair saga in Tasmania, Interactive Gaming Holdings signs on with Orbis and more.»
Betfair Expands into Austria
20 April 2005
Betfair announced Monday that it has been awarded a license to operate in Austria. It's the first time the company has received regulatory approval to operate outside the United Kingdom and could be the first step toward gaining acceptance throughout Europe.»
It's All About the Speed
20 April 2005
Nielsen//NetRatings' latest research indicates that more than 14 million Europeans (14 percent of those online from home) visited a gambling and/or sweepstakes site in February 2005.»
Nambling Notes - April 20, 2005
20 April 2005
In today's Nambling Notes: Chartwell expands its London team, Mr. Bookmaker launches new games and more.»
On Track - April 2005
19 April 2005
A monthly review of events, business news and other happenings in the racing industry, particularly in the interactive space.»
The Top 10s
19 April 2005
It's the Hitwise Top 10 "Entertainment - Gambling" sites for the week ending April 16. This week:
United Kingdom
1. Casino.co.uk
2. Betfair
3. William Hill
4. Ladbrokes.com
5. RacingPost.co.uk		 6. Ntnl. Lottery
7. FindPoker.com
8. JackpotJoy
9. 888.com
10 Pacific Poker
More lists this way. . . »
Gambling Left out of EU Services Directive
19 April 2005
Evelyn Gebhardt, the German Socialist rapporteur for the Services Directive (SD) and a member of IMCO (European Parliament committee for the Internal Market and Consumer Protection), today proposed the amendments to the commission's Services Directive Commission in the European Parliament. The report confirms that gambling will be excluded from the SD--a huge setback for cross-border gambling worldwide.»
Market Briefs - April 11 - 15, 2005
19 April 2005
Dozens of publicly held interactive gaming companies are reporting, acquiring, floating, spinning off, merging, de-listing, rising and falling in stock markets all over the world. Every week IGN wraps the financial happenings of the Net betting biz from the previous week into a nifty little package just for you.»
Nambling Notes - April 19, 2005
19 April 2005
In today's Nambling Notes: Betfair receives a license to operate in Austria, bet365 launches an online casino and more.»
EBA Weighs in on Services Directive
18 April 2005
The European Lotteries, the toto companies and those organizations licensed to operate games of chance for public benefit, organized a high-level conference last month in Brussels, on the impact of the European Commission's forthcoming Directive on Services (SD) in the internal E.U. market. IGN recently caught up with two members of the European Betting Association--Secretary General Didier Dewyn and Torbjörn Ihre, who oversees external affairs--to get their views on the conference and the future of E.U. policy as it relates to cross-border gambling.»
Nambling Notes - April 18, 2005
18 April 2005
In today's Nambling Notes: betbull goes live, Ryanair abandons its in-flight entertainment experiment, Playtech introduces U.K.-style bingo and more.»
The WTO Ruling - A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
15 April 2005
In the latest chapter in the World Trade Organization dispute between the United States and Antigua over U.S. regulation of cross-border Internet gambling, the online gaming industry has lost a round. Virtually all the favorable findings contained in the initial decision, relating to the inability of the United States to regulate online gambling on a worldwide basis, were undone in this appeal. This is quite a common occurrence in the legal field--a wonderful victory is snatched away by a reviewing tribunal, with the swipe of a pen.»
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