Ladbrokes is betting on a new version of its online sportsbook to help improve its fortunes in the Internet gambling sector. Announcing its results for 2011 on 16 February 2012, Ladbrokes said the new website would be live in the “coming weeks” and will: • allow single
Read more →UNIRE, the organisation responsible for horseracing in Italy which was founded in 1932, changed its name to ASSI (Agenzia per lo Sviluppo del Settore Ippico, Agency for the Development of the Horseracing Sector) in the middle of 2011. It was not meant to merely be a rebranding
Read more →Global gambling revenues passed US$ 400 billion, according to the latest research undertaken by Global Betting and Gaming Consultants for its Global Gambling Report – Betting on Regulation. GBGC’s provisional figures show that gambling activities generated US$ 419 billion in revenues across the world in 2011.This figure
Read more →State lotteries around the world are failing to take advantage of the opportunities afforded by Internet and mobile technology to boost sales in mature markets. In an increasingly competitive global gambling market this failure to use new technology – either through reticence or regulatory constraint – is
Read more →At the recent Morgan Stanley conference on Internet gambling in London, Global Betting and Gaming Consultants chaired a panel on the issue of “multi channel gambling” and how new technology is changing the way people can gamble. One topic that garnered a lot of attention was that
Read more →GBGC noticed at the various Internet gambling conferences it attended during ICE week 2012 that the topic of arrests and legal sanctions had replaced talk of “revenue growth” and “profits”. With the action taken by the Department of Justice last year against online poker rooms in the
Read more →2012 marks the beginning of a new era in the European Internet gambling sector. For the first time revenues generated from domestically regulated markets will account for the clear majority of total e-gaming revenues in Europe. Research undertaken by Global Betting and Gaming Consultants (GBGC) for its
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