Bingo News
Below is a list of the latest bingo news.
Having survived years of bureaucratic delays, an online lottery gets the thumbs up from the public
The proposal to take the Thai lottery online, bogged down for years by bureaucratic delays but recently left for public opinion to decide (see previous InfoPowa report) looks as if it could...
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Wider selection of games gives bingo players some diversion
Online bingo operator 888 Ladies.com has augmented its selection of over 17 fruit machines, video slots, scratch cards and table instant games with a number of new offerings, increasing the choices of bingo players looking for more diversity on the site.
The...
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Thailand's Council of State gives the go-ahead on long-delayed project
Thailand's Council of State has given its imprimatur for the Finance Ministry to action its long-delayed plans for a national online lottery, the Bangkok Post reports this week.
Finance permanent secretary Sathit Limpongpan said that the Government Lottery Office (GLO) board had asked the Council to rule on the lottery scheme because of questions over its leg...
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Sports leagues' bid for an injunction turned down
The attempt by the U.S. national pro sports leagues and the NCAA to dislocate the state of Delaware's decision to allow lottery sportsbetting (see previous InfoPowa reports) will be heard in a federal court on December 7th this year.
But an attempt by the leagues to impose an injunction stopping the implementation of the Delware d...
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Betting in Italy increased in July 2009 to push the value of bets up 12.25 percent in the first seven months of the year, reports the Reuters news agency, citing record-breaking lottery game numbers as an important contributory cause which has attracted new gamblers.
The latest numbers were released by Italian regulator AAMS just before the weekend, and show that bets on the SuperEnalotto game nearly doubled in July to Euros 441 mil...
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South African national lottery's new mobile service will be powered by Intralot
The operator of the South African national lottery, Gidani Party Limited, has inked a deal with Intralot to use its mobile gambling B-On service.
The agreement signed this week will enable players to take part using their mobile telephones, initially through First National Bank of South Africa before other banking institutions are added in the near f...
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Football team signs with Washington State lottery
The US National Football League's permission for its teams to negotiate scratchcard lottery betting deals with individual state lotteries saw another agreement signed this week, with the Washington Seahawks following the lead of other top teams such as the Dallas Cowboys, the New England Patriots, Washington Redskins, Houston Texans, New Orleans Saints and the New York Giants (see pr...
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Greenlight gets the green light from Camelot
The search engine marketing agency Greenlight has been engaged by UK National Lottery operator Camelot to manage the search engine optimisation of the National Lottery website.
Responsibilities agreed under the deal include driving additional traffic to the website, which was revamped and relaunched earlier this (2009) year (see previous InfoPowa report).
“Greenlight’s clear under...
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Scratchcard gives players the feel of a casino game
Another new scratchcard game has been released by the Israeli-Malta firm NeoGames, this one called 'Mister Joker'.
The concept of Mister Joker is to find the winning joker card amongst the three cards presented on the poker table. Once the card has been found, if in the midst of the three cards offered, the player wins. Its setti...
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A spokesman for Ladbrokes, which has challenged the Danish state gambling monopoly in the past (see previous InfoPowa reports), has indicated that the UK betting giant may be prepared to submit to regulation if the Scandinavian nation opens u...
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For the first time in over eight years, German online lottery firm Tipp24 AG has posted negative half-year earnings following the implementation of the monopolistic State Treaty On Gambling in Germany.
This week the company reported that it had experienced a decline of Euro 6.8 million from its German activities for the first six months of 2009 compared to a profit of Euro 5.4 million in H1 2008. Revenues fell by a debilitating 92....
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Dallas Cowboys the latest to take advantage of looser NFL restrictions
One of online gambling's biggest opponents, the US National Football League, says it wants to keep betting out of the game to preserve its integrity, yet it has embraced the revenue-earning possibilities for its premier teams of betting on lottery scratch-cards (see previous InfoPowa reports).
The latest top Am...
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In Minnesota, six lottery ticket retailers have admitted guilt and been convicted on charges of trying to claim customers' ticket wins as their own, reports the Pioneer Press. Three were convicted of felonies, and three received one-year suspended sentences, the Minnesota Department of Public Safety reported this week.
Authorities arrested a total of eight people during the compliance checks, part of a sting operation conducted by M...
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A new study by research company Mintel shows that the game of bingo is enjoyed on a regular basis internationally by some 3.5 million punters, and the demographic of those playing the game has shifted towards a younger segment, with 20 percent of players now coming from the 18 to 24 age group.
The 18 to 45 age bracket accounts for 62 percent of all bingo players, with the online versio...
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The relatively new London advertising agency Campbell Lace Beta has followed its success in picking up the Thomas Cook account earlier this week by winning a pitch against Publicis for the JackpotJoy Bingo account, a...
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