However, a spokesperson for IGT denies all the rumors saying that the company is in a “restructuring mode”. IGT’s Chief, TJ Matthews, actually one of the best in the field, is supposed to cover Morro’s duties, and that is in addition to his duties as a Chairman and President. Matthew hopes to keep IGT’s good performance.

At the same time, IGT’s subsidiary online gambling software developer Wager Works shows excellent service.

PayPoint.net helps early stage online gaming companies level their paying field when competing with widely known brands. PayPoint.net complies with all leading payment security standards, including PCI DSS and 3D Secure. The company is able to equip startup gaming sites with all of the accounts and payment systems they need, to begin trading in just five days.

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The survey shows that 8.8% of UK adults participated in at least one form of remote gambling in the last year, and this figure corresponds with the same percentage in 2007 which was up from 7.2% in 2006. Nearly have of this percentage was made up of adults participating in National Lottery games via remote means of wagering.

As the survey shows, the average online bettor is a male from 18 to 44 years old. As for the UK female bettors, they are believed to make up the larger portion of online bingo activities.

The most popular form of remote gambling is via computer (7% of the surveyed). Then, it is followed by mobile phones and interactive digital TV (2% of the surveyed).

Lenis’ Mobile Promotion firm deployed a number of motor homes across the USA which were designed to advertise and promote BetOnSports products and services.

Prospective gamblers were easily targeted and encouraged to gamble online at various sports event where the motor homes were sent to. In addition to that, the firm was also collecting signatures to have US gambling laws amended.

The online casino offers live table that feature real dealers. Such an approach does not only help to get the real atmosphere of a real casino, but it also helps to improve the trust factor between the clients and casino.

As Michele Guarino, CEO of 1 Gaming Ltd, claims, “live-dealt online casinos are a natural progression from traditional Random Number Generator casinos” and they are believed to become very popular in the months and years to come.

Because of the double taxation present in the UK many gambling venues, both at land and online casinos, may be forced to go out of business. As a result, because of the high UK taxes hampering expansion, William Hill, one of the two major land and internet bookies in the UK industry, is publicly petitioning the UK government to readdress the current gambling taxation laws

Currently, online casinos are paying 15% taxes on internet gambling revenues what is thought to be high when looked at with international perspective, i.e. companies like William Hill and Ladbrokes are facing heavy competition from foreign internet gambling companies offering their gambling services in the UK market as well.

It must be noted that the European gambling market is getting more and more liberalized, since lots of governments have understood that it’s better to join the industry rather than being helpless in fighting it.

With no regulation in place to address online casinos, some Polish officials are thinking of using industry’s tax revenue to fund a new football stadium and other social programs and projects to help Polish citizens. Jacek Kapica, the Deputy Minister of Finance in Poland, is one of the officials actively supporting the new tax legislation.

According to government’s opinion, the planned tax rate of 10% is thought to be reasonable and shouldn’t deter gambling companies to continue operating in the Polish gambling market.

If passed as it is, the new tax legislation will remain in effect until 2015.

Being specifically designed with the gaming community in mind, Ivobank is open to anyone. Its customers are able to move money instantly from their bank accounts to friends and family overseas. The bank clients have access to the Ivobank Virtual Card, an online debit card, which works wherever Mastercard is accepted.

Ivobank is believed to keep pace with the online gaming industry.

If not regulated, online gambling is sure to become the part of consumer’s life. Gambling on the Internet is much more dangerous than the casino gambling due to the fact that in a casino, a gambler must go and stay at the casino, while nothing of that kind is required if you want to play on the Internet.

Ten casino gamblers and twenty online casino gamblers were interviewed. Besides, there were shown pictures to get reactions on how they made them feel. When the study was over, they got recommendations on how to cope with problem of online gambling.

The study suggested Canadian government sponsors to get into the market and regulate the industry, while in the USA the people regulating Las Vegas should the same in the online gambling market.

Cooling off period (when gamblers cannot continually deposit money into their online accounts) and proper age identification checks have also been called as potential regulations.

As the company reports, future growth and development of the company will fully depend on the number of acquisitions. At the moment Playtech is looking for a “significant” acquisition with an affiliated company in online gambling.

Asian player-to-player games, launched in the first half of the year, are expected to be completed over the next few months.
The four-year exclusive agreement of Playtech with the digital arm of Paramount Pictures enables its licensees to offer games featuring Gladiator and Untouchables brands.

The company’s Flash poker network is believed to roll out in the next quarter.

Having 10 licensees signed up this year, Playtech expects five new licensees in the next quarter.

In addition to everything mentioned above, Playtech is establishing a poker network in Italy.