Partnership deal with give Big Stack mobile loyalty services Joingo, a California-based provider of loyalty programs for the casino gaming industry, has inked a deal with e-gaming casino platform provider Big Stack Technologies that will give the latter a comprehensive mobile loyalty service Big Stack, whose e-gaming platform has 27 proprietary online social casino games, says in a statement that...
January 11 auction offers some super-domains Domain registry operator Afilias, and RightOfTheDot, an internet domain auction specialist, have teamed up to organise the auction in Las Vegas of several super-domain internet addresses on January 11 next year. Internet Domains to be auctioned include: * TexasHoldem.Poker * Stud.poker * Strip.poker * Video.poker The .poker top level domain launched in 2015 to...
Media and enforcement scrutiny has taken a toll Chris Grove, a gambling industry analyst, told an informational forum on daily fantasy sports set up by the Massachusetts Gaming Commission this week (see previous InfoPowa reports) that entry fees have declined at major DFS operators following the recent furore over "insider" allegations and increased scrutiny by the media and law enforcement...
Planned December launch postponed to early 2016 Despite being granted a UK Gambling Commission licence, daily fantasy sports operator DraftKings will not launch in the UK as planned this month, and has postponed the initiative to an unspecified date early in 2016. A company spokesperson was unable to provide Bloomberg business news with an explanation for the delayed launch, which...
State AG's ideas on a regulatory framework appear reasonable, say operators The stage may have been set for daily fantasy sport regulation at an informational forum conducted by the Massachusetts Gaming Commission Thursday (see previous InfoPowa reports), with representatives from major DFS companies DraftKings and FanDuel both appearing to support regulatory suggestions put forward by the Massachusetts Attorney General, Maura...
Scathing attack on RAWA penned by Liberty Perspective's Bruce Fein Rep. Jason Chaffetz's Restoration of America's Wire Act came in for yet another media panning this week when the Washington Times ran an article by Bruce Fein of the Liberty Perspective. Attacking Chaffetz's claim that the commerce clause in the US Constitution justifies federal interference in states' rights to control...
Las Vegas Sands awarded TRO against unknown owners of online casinos Sheldon Adelson's Las Vegas Sands land casino group in the USA is on another purge of online casinos illegally using its trademarks and titles, it appears from filings in the US District Court for Nevada. Following the filings, U.S. District Judge Andrew Gordon ordered web-hosting company GoDaddy.com and internet...
Rumours earlier this week appear to be accurate despite Adelson's denial of "personal" involvement It appears that the rumours earlier this week that multi-billionaire land gambling mogul Sheldon Adelson is the man and the money behind the recent $140 million acquisition of the Las Vegas Review-Journal (see previous InfoPowa reports) are true. Breaking the story of Adelson's involvement late Wednesday,...
Two runner ups win a million dollars apiece The big money flowing in fantasy football competitions was again much in evidence this week when the FanDuel World Fantasy Football Championships concluded at a luxury hotel in San Diego, with the winner taking home $3 million and two runners-up rewarded a million dollars apiece. To compete in the finals players won...
Controversial case exploits a Kentucky statute that allows a third party to litigate where a gambling loser or creditor does not do so A county level case in Kentucky that had its genesis in a failed 2008 attempt to seize the international domains of online gambling companies (see previous InfoPowa reports) is back in the headlines this week with the...
