Isle of Man online mahjong developer Mahjong Logic, Ltd. announced the completion of a licensing agreement with b2b i-gaming solution provider, EveryMatrix . ’2010 has been a banner year for Mahjong Logic and our deal with EveryMatrix reaffirms not only the potential of mahjong but the fact that the game is a true force worldwide,’ said Jonas Alm , Mahjong Logic CEO. ‘This deal gives us instant access to over twenty-five worldwide gaming operators already being serviced by EveryMatrix.’ ‘EveryMatrix is excited to bring our customer base worldwide the game of mahjong,’ said Stian Hornsletten , CEO of EveryMatrix. ‘ [ Read More ]
Archive for October, 2010
Twenty-two people have been selected to advise the Australian Government on its gambling reforms through a new expert panel. The Ministerial Expert Advisory Group on Gambling, chaired by Professor Peter Shergold AC, will provide specialist and technical implementation advice and play an important role in assisting the Government to deliver its gambling reforms. The Government has invited 22 representatives to join the Ministerial Expert Advisory Group from: problem gambling counselling and support services; clubs, hotels, casinos and gaming machine manufacturers; the Liquor Hospitality and Miscellaneous Union; and research and academic institutions that specialise in understanding problem gambling behaviour and harm [ Read More ]
Best Online Casinos USAPlayers FreeDowload CanadianPlayers FreeDowload EuroPlayers FreeDowload UKPlayers FreeDowload Online gamblers both new and seasoned were confused on Thursday afternoon when the Yahoo search engine was down for about an hour. The search engine is frequently used for players to find the top online casinos from around the world. “For a brief period this afternoon, Yahoo.com was inaccessible to some users,” wrote Yahoo Spokeswoman Kryssa Gunthrum, in response to a query from eWeek. “We have identified the issue and are working to correct it immediately. We know that this may have caused some inconvenience and we apologize to [ Read More ]
England’s failure to defeat Montenegro at Wembley Stadium sealed a night of woe for punters according to bookmaker Ladbrokes – but the Three Lions are still at odds of 1/6 to qualify from their group. With Northern Ireland failing to beat the Faroe Islands and the Republic of Ireland being held to another draw by Slovakia, bookmakers were left celebrating. David Williams, spokesperson of Ladbrokes, said: “It was a dismal night for England and their punters, but the 0-0 draw was wonderful news for the bookies. It would have been too much for us to ask of Scotland to halt [ Read More ]
Betfair proved its naysayers wrong this week, with its proposed IPO of ten percent of its shares over-subscribed in the first 24 hours Friday. British business media quote sources close to the IPO as saying that just a day after the launch of the prospectus, investors had placed orders for all of the shares being made available, and at the prices Betfair asked, valuing the company at some £1.48 billion. There are reports that on Friday the banks putting the public listing together told their sellers to cease offering the stock as the order book was already full. The prospectus [ Read More ]
Three years on from the draconian Russian decrees that banished gambling to remote areas of the country, regional politicians are still arguing over the location and development of land casinos in the designated areas. On October 1, the second legal casino, the 1500 square metre Shambala, opened its doors in the Azov-City gambling zone in Krasnodar Territory. The Krasnodar Territory invested a billion roubles in developing the infrastructure of the gambling zone, and the Rostov Region invested a further 170 million roubles, reports the Russian media agency Tass. Despite this, on October 5 a bill was submitted to the State [ Read More ]
The New York Times kept the legalisation of online gambling front-and-centre over the weekend with a generally positive article on the current state of play in the United States. Author Bradley Bower of Bloomberg News opined: “Many of the country’s largest casinos, long opposed to gambling games like poker on the Internet, are now having second thoughts” before going on to examine the latest developments, noting that internet gambling is enjoyed by millions of Americans. He reports that the American Gaming Association has accepted that online gambling could be regulated, and that it is still working on “a proposal that [ Read More ]
