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The Jackpot Factory, a online casino group, has taken on the challenge of launching its own online bingo hall with the announcing of the All Bingo Club now open for business. Using the cheeky slogan “We’ve Got Balls,” All Bingo Club is a Microgaming software-supported online bingo operator specializing in 90 ball bingo online. David [...]

Canadian online gambling software developer Chartwell Technology has successfully clinched a deal with Spielbanken Niedersachsen GmbH (SNG) to provide the software for the Lower Saxony gambling monopoly’s new online casino. There is no word at the time of writing whether or not Spielbanken Niedersachsen will include online bingo games or an online bingo hall as [...]

Media speculation that the French gambling market is about to be opened to allow EU-based companies to operate there has been confirmed by a report that French Budget Minister Eric Woerth said the government is aiming for a “controlled opening” of the market by 2009 or 2010. Woerth gave his view to France’s newspaper Le [...]

A lucky bingo player taking part in the National Bingo game at a Mecca Bingo hall in Dagenham collected an outstanding £73,000 prize after hitting bingo in 40 numbers.The lucky lady scooped the National Bingo game jackpot of £70,160, which was combined with a regional prize of £3,631 and Mecca Bingo’s own house prize of [...]

A piece on the online gaming industry has appeared in the Wall Street Journal authored by a land casino supplier and timed to influence the last Wednesday’s Congressional hearings on the current Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA).The full page anti-online gambling advert titled “Who Will Face the Issues” is sponsored by Derek Webb, founder [...]

US Congressman Barney Frank’s Internet Gambling Regulation and Enforcement Act (IGREA) is starting to cause headaches amongst anti-online gambling advocates. IGREA has seen a steady stream of sponsors pledge their support to the bill which would replace the current and controversial Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA). In an item by Paul M. Weyrich of [...]

888.com’s financial results for 2007 show just how painful it was for online gaming operators to withdraw from the US gambling market with the implementation of UIGEA in late 2006. A major online bingo games operator, 888.com said its profits had been hit by a 54% decline in 2007. The Gibraltar-based company and second largest [...]

An Associated Press report receiving a lot of coverage in the US says that a major advantage land-based casinos have enjoyed over online casinos may be about to change due to the current US economic slowdown. ‘Comps’, or what is known as freebies in the form of meals, entertainment, accommodation and, in some cases, money, [...]

There is media speculation that France’s monopolistic views on gambling may be about to change for the better. French media reports are speculating that the Sarkozy administration could be on the verge of liberalizing the country’s online gaming industry by implementing a more regulatory regime. If the reports are accurate, online bingo industry observers and [...]

Online Bingo software developer Cryptologic, a popular choice by many UK bingo games operators and online bingo halls, has received a boost by UK financial publication The Motley Fool which is touting the company as a top growth stock over the next five years. Motley sees CryptoLogic producing up to 30% growth over the next [...]