Big Fish Games is slashing its workforce in an effort to tighten its focus and stay competitive in a grueling marketplace. Those impacted by the move range from ground-level programmers to high level executives. The Seattle-based social gaming company made the layoff announcement via an internal memo which was promptly leaked to the website, GeekWire.…
Peruvian lawmakers are looking to reign in their country's rogue sports betting industry with a new gaming bill that covers a wide range of gaming-related topics. Under the terms of the proposed laws, Peruvian bookmakers would be exposed to new taxes that are more in line with what their colleagues across the planet are used…
Boyaa Interactive CEO Zhang Wei is languishing in a Chinese prison cell after losing an appeal for charges of bribery. He's facing a year behind bars and that's just one of the indignities that's been visited upon the China-based social gaming company this year. Wei's prison sentence stems from a May 2018 conviction in which…
Remember way back when FanDuel executives swore up and down that their company was not involved in or promoting sports betting? After their handling of a bizarre pricing error at the tail end of a Denver Broncos football game last week, some industry observers may wonder if that statement isn't still true, even though the…
Early this week Washington D.C. City Council member Jack Evans introduced a bill that would legalize sports betting in the US capitol city. Evans' strategy is to move quickly and establish D.C. as a local sports betting powerhouse before lawmakers in neighboring states, such as Maryland, can move to create their sports betting bases. In…
UK operators William Hill and Greentube Aldereney got were the recent subjects of some unwanted attention from the UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) for their marketing practices. Both companies maintain that they acted in good faith in the matters at question and were let off with with the ASA equivalent of a warning. The ASA's…
West Virginia lawmakers are inching closer towards passing a bill that would legalize sports at the state's licensed casinos. Local news outlets say that the bill's passage could have football fans legally gambling on the outcome of games by the end of the month, but issues regarding the professional sports league's insistence on receiving a…
The gambling is business is known for providing casino games to customers 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. In general, it takes an act of God or a force of nature to shut the doors of gambling establishments anywhere on the planet. That's why last week's 33-hour closure of…
Betsson AB is asking Dutch gaming regulators to take another look at a €300,000 they've imposed on one of its local subsidiaries. At question is a penalty that Corona Ltd. incurred while allegedly serving Dutch punters without securing the proper licensing from Dutch authorities. It's a case that cleanly illustrates that messy challenges gaming operators…
Americans really like sports betting. That's the only logical conclusion gaming industry watchers can draw from the full weekend of legal NFL wagering in the United States since the Supreme Court left the decision regarding its legality in the hands of the states. Across the country, regulated sports books took in cash hand over fist…
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