Google Penalizes BetOnline

BetOnline has confirmed that it has suffered a search engine penalty from Google for unspecified violations of Google’s SEO rules.

Published March 31, 2014

Belgium May Go After Illegal Online Gamblers

The Belgian Gaming Commission has been beefing up its enforcement and has brought its first charges against players gambling illegally. The move has led to speculation that the commission...

Published March 31, 2014

Optimal Signs with Loto-Québec, Borgata

Optimal Payments has renewed its agreement with Loto-Québec, and has announced a new agreement with the Borgata in Atlantic City.

Published March 31, 2014

Williams Interactive Signs with Ladbrokes

Williams Interactive has signed a deal with Ladbrokes to provide online slot content to the operator via its Remote Game Server technology.

Published March 31, 2014

Microgaming Launches Dark Knight Rises, High Society

Microgaming has released a new slots game, Dark Knight Rises that gives players the chance to win 1.5 million coins. The company will also launch the new casino slot...

Published March 31, 2014

Yahoo Launches Games Network

Yahoo has launched Yahoo Games Network, a new social gaming network. The network will serve as a platform for third-party game developers that want distribution on the Yahoo network.

Published March 31, 2014

GameAnax to Launch Real-Money Games

Social gaming developer GameAnax has signed an agreement with Cashplay to offer real-money versions of its portfolio of free-play games.

Published March 31, 2014

GTECH Reorganizes Americas Team

GTECH has reorganized its management team for the Americas under GTECH Americas President and CEO Jaymin Patel, reflecting changes in the Americas gaming landscape. Alan Eland (l.) has been...

Published March 31, 2014

Rank Group Names New CEO

The Rank Group last week announced that former William Hill executive Henry Birch (l.) has been named CEO to replace Ian Burke, who will become non-executive chairman.

Published March 31, 2014

Sands Bethlehem Names Interim President

The Sands Casino Resort Bethlehem has named finance VP Douglas S. Niethold as interim president after the resignation of Robert DeSalvio.

Published March 31, 2014

Gala Coral Names Corporate Affairs Director

Gala Coral has appointed Fiona Thorne to the newly created position of corporate affairs director, which includes public affairs functions.

Published March 31, 2014

NIGC Names Director of Compliance

The National Indian Gaming Commission has named a director of compliance from the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. Douglas Hatfield will be in charge of compliance operations among the...

Published March 31, 2014

Las Vegas Sands Hires Lobbyist Blanche Lincoln

Sheldon Adelson’s Las Vegas Sands has hired the government consulting firm of former Senator Blanche Lincoln (D-Arkansas) to lobby for the casino and for a bill outlawing online gambling...

Published March 31, 2014

New Maine GM Faces Challenges

Jose Flores, the new general manager at Hollywood Casino in Bangor, Maine faces several challenges. Among them are Churchill Downs' Oxford Casino, the desire of Maine tribes and other...

Published March 31, 2014

Choctaw Construction Chief Charged

The former head of construction at the Choctaw Casino in Durant, Oklahoma has been charged with embezzlement. Jason Brett Merida allegedly used the ill-gotten gains for his wife’s new...

Published March 31, 2014

Macau Clears SHFL of Infringement

Macau prosecutors have cleared SHFL entertainment (Asia) Ltd., now a part of Bally Technologies, of allegations of copyright infringement brought by Paradise Entertainment concerning LT Game patents. The company...

Published March 31, 2014

IGT Announces Layoffs, Realignment

IGT announced that it will trim 7 percent of its global workforce in response to declining North American revenues and other industry challenges.

Published March 31, 2014

Aristocrat’s ‘Buffalo’ Again Tops Survey

For the third year in a row, the slot game “Buffalo” from Aristocrat Technologies has been named the top-performing game in Goldman Sachs’ Slot Manager Survey.

Published March 31, 2014

Casino Kursaal Picks JCM

Spain’s Casino Kursaal has named JCM Global its preferred bill validator supplier, after a four-week test of JCM’s iVizion bill validator.

Published March 31, 2014

IGT Renews Wheel of Fortune Agreement

IGT has signed a new agreement with Sony Pictures Consumer Products to continue providing games based on the Wheel of Fortune game show in multiple channels. Stars Pat Sajak...

Published March 31, 2014