Posts From: May 2018

Online bookies face $30m gambling tax hit

Victoria ( Australia ) will impose an 8% point-of-consumption tax on online betting agencies, barely half the rate introduced or promised in other states. The tax would start from January and...

Business News
DraftKings gears up for Sports Betting

DraftKings, has been hiring staff for a new office it opened in Hoboken in February. Chief Executive Jason Robins said the company has also held discussions with officials at the...

Sports Betting
NFL wants Congress to pass betting legislation

The NBA and Major League Baseball began making their voices heard in the dozens or so states looking to legalize sports betting, the NFL sat on the sidelines, awaiting a...

Sports Betting
‘Who Stole the Cup?’

A Hollywood-style heist carrying the strapline ‘Who Stole the Cup?’ themes bwin’s Football World Cup campaign. Directed by Pedro Martin-Calero, the ad stars football legends Cafu, Vicente del Bosque, Stefan Effenburg and Diego...

Marketing
Supreme Court lets states legalize sports gambling

The Supreme Court cleared the way on Monday for states to legalize sports betting, striking down a 1992 federal law that had prohibited most states from authorizing sports betting. The court said...

Sports Betting
Kambi welcomes US Supreme Court decision

Kambi welcomes today’s US Supreme Court’s judgment, which finds the federal ban on sports wagering to be unconstitutional and transfers the responsibility to state legislators. Since the enactment of the...

Sports Betting
Betfred MD urges employees to oppose cut to £100 FOBT stake

Betfred’s managing director has urged employees to lobby their MP to oppose the expected cut to the £100 stake punters can wager every 20 seconds on fixed-odds betting terminals (FOBTs),...

Business News
AGTech swings to first quarter profit

AGTech Holdings, China’s leading integrated lottery, games and entertainment technology company, has announced its financial results for the three months ended March 31, 2018. Revenue was HK$17.7 million, an increase of 18.8% over revenue...

Lotto
The MGA reacts to Media Articles

The Malta Gaming Authority would like to draw attention to media articles published by the Investigative Reporting Project Italy (IRPI), La Repubblica and the Times of Malta. The MGA objects...

Business News
Ruling a win for safe betting

The American Gaming Association (AGA) President and CEO Geoff Freeman issued the following statement after the announcement of the Supreme Court’s opinion on Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Association. The...

Business News