Bingo News
Below is a list of the latest bingo news.
Our readers will recall our report on the desire of NFL teams to get involved in online betting partnerships with state lotteries despite the League's virulent opposition to Internet gambling.
This week Associated Press reported that the Washington Redskins are now officially a lottery team following Monday's joint unveiling with the Virginia Lottery of a new $20 scratch-off ticket fe...
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GTECH, a global provider of lottery and gaming technology worldwide, has officially launched G2, its new interactive lottery, sports betting, poker, bingo, and casino subsidiary.
G2 is the new brand name for GTECH's interactive gaming and sports betting services businesses which are compr...
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The PartyGaming Internet gambling group has started the week in a positive way, announcing that it has signed an exclusive agreement with the UK-based television network Channel 5 Broadcasting Ltd to create a “Five”-br...
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One of the biggest undivided lottery jackpots in US history totalling $232 million has been won on a stake of $15 by a battling 23-year-old rancher near the town of Winner, South Dakota.
Neal Wanless told Associated Press this week that he intends to buy himself more room to roam and repa...
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The UK-based Buckingham Bingo company, perhaps better known for its land operations, has become the latest Internet bingo operator to re-sign with Virtue Fusion Alderney, using the brand BuckyBingo.co.uk The site joins a growing list of tier one clients on the Bingo Networks Alderney software such as Virgin B...
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The London-listed online gambling software provider Playtech plc is to supply Internet bingo and casino games to the major international Internet betting exc...
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Four major online bingo affiliate marketers who together claim to generate 80 percent of traffic to bingo websites in the UK are considering a collaborative approach to negotiating reward terms with bingo site operators, reports eGaming Review.
The Bingobase, Bingoport, Superfreebingo and Unlucky For Some bingo portals are apparently in talks under the working title of the Bingo Affil...
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Earlier this week we reported on the case of an Australian grandmother who managed to claim a $2 million lottery prize after finding a four-year-old Powerball ticket during a clean-out. Days later, Australia produced yet another heart-warming story of an even bigger lottery win on an old ticket.
This time it was a university student in Perth, who was given a lottery ticket by her father 10 months ago but had not checked it.
Worr...
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The Canadian Internet bingo software developer Parlay Entertainment has reported another disappointing quarterly result in its numbers for Q1 2009, with revenues declining to $1 million (Q1 2008: $2 million).
However, the company managed to substantially reduce expenses from $2.5 million in the same period last year to $1.3 million in the first quarter 2009. The company's net loss ove...
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The Australian arm of the international gambling group Intralot had the embarrassment of being slapped with a A$30 000 fine by the Victorian state government this week for failing to run a televised bingo game as promised, reports the Australian newspaper TheAge.
Under its licence, the international gaming giant was to run a live, state-wide bingo game, with tickets sold at retailers a...
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Reports in The Times over the weekend confirm rumours that both Party Gaming and 888 are among the final bidders for Internet bingo company Cashcade, which owns FoxyBingo and GetMinted among other websites. The company achieved gross gaming revenues of GBP 45 million last year, generating EBITDA of GBP 12.3 million.
Pa...
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Mobile customers in the Middle East and specifically Qatar have been warned by service provider Qtel to be on the alert for a highly-sophisticated phishing fraud which uses a blend of next generation technology to convince them that they’ve won a European lottery, in a bid to steal their bank and credit card numbers.
The fraudster first sends users an SMS message, telling them they’ve won a grand prize in a European lottery, and pro...
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Senate legislators in Illinois looking for cash to finance an ambitious state-wide construction program approved two gambling related measures this week along with other tax proposals. The measures, which gained bi-partisan support, now move to the House for further debate.
Among the sin, vehicle and luxury taxes proposed are bills to introduce private management and online betting on the state lottery, and the legalisation of video...
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Greece's international lottery specialist group Intralot has announced the successful achievement of a 6-year deal to supply the New Hampshire Lottery with a system for online games, its ninth such contract in the United States.
Reuters news service reports that under the contract, Intralot will create a communications system for the lottery that will connect more than 1 250 terminals and related peripherals. It did not provide fina...
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The UK listed gambling group Rank plc has announced that its Mecca Bingo subsidiary is currently seeking a new managing director following the resignation to pursue other business interests of present incumbent Simon Wykes, who has expressed a wish to move on with immediate effect.
In the interim, Rank CEO Ian Burke has assumed direct operational management of the business until a repl...
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