Following a very successful float on the London Stock Exchange, UK online betting exchange firm, Betfair, made an announcement that it is to open a new office in Dublin.
Betfair will be creating one hundred new jobs over the next few months and will be giving its English customer operation teams the option of relocating to Ireland and has already started recruiting new customer service as well as data centre management workers.
The new software deal between leading online gaming software provider Playtech and Betfair online casino is due to come to fruition at the end of this month with the launch of Playtech’s new Flash-based product.
Although Playtech has provided Betfair’s internet casino software in a download format ever since November 2009 the terms of this new agreement will see Playtech adding a complementary flash-based offering thus making it the sole provider on Betfair’s casino portal.
Following the Dutch Ministry of Justice having set up a committee to review the online gambling policy of Holland in September 2009 a report has now been submitted by the six member committee.
The committee has decided that online poker should be legalized in the Netherlands under a non-exclusive licensing system but felt that online gambling products such as casino, sports betting and bingo should remain illegal in the public domain. It highlighted that some online gambling products, including sports betting and lottery are permitted under existing laws through the state owned monopoly operator De Lotto.
An announcement was made by Steve Jobs at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday that the new iPhone 4 will go on sale on 24th June 2010. Jobs revealed that amongst the many new features of the new iPhone is that it has a much longer battery life.
The millions of gamblers using their iPhone to play at the online casinos will welcome the news of the longer battery life as this will enable them to have up to a forty percent more battery life which will enable players to play at their favorite casinos for a much longer length of time before the need to recharge the battery.
Online and offline sports betting are both prohibited in terms of Indian gambling laws but this has not stopped many local players from utilizing online sportsbooks hosted in countries where internet gambling is legal. Due to the fact that India’s gambling laws vary from state to state this activity falls into a legal grey area.
Subsequent to a recent productivity Commission draft report that recommended extensive liberalization of online gaming laws, there has been huge interest in the Australian gaming industry.
Paddy Power has bought control of Sportsbet and IASbet while William Hill and Ladbrokes are both considering a takeover of Centrebet.
Amongst the 13 UK gambling operators moving for licenses in the jurisdiction of India with its estimated GBP 37 billion betting market are Betfair, Bwin and William Hill.
The province of Sikkim will be the first area to offer online gambling licenses but will only be granting licenses to three of the 13 companies competing.
Betfair, the leading British online betting exchange operator has signed a six-figure deal in terms of which it will now be the official betting partner of UK radio station TalkSport for the station’s weekend Premier League coverage.
