Online operations increased revenue by 20.8 percent, and operating profit by 26.5 percent. The latest Rank plc results to end June 2012 show that the interactive division of the company has again made an important contribution to the overall performance of the UK land and online gambling group in its 75th year. Rank Interactive increased […]

First online poker operator licence approved by Nevada Gaming Commission Michael Gaughan’s South Point Casino online poker venture, South Point Poker LLC, was approved Thursday for the issue of the first actual operator licence under Nevada’s intrastate online poker legislation. South Point has been smart in developing its own software and moving ahead with the […]

Agreement inked with Jacobs Entertainment Inc. IGT social gaming casino DoubleDown’s free-to-play app will be available soon for players on Jacobs Entertainment Inc. websites in Colorado and Nevada, the group announced Monday. The application will be hosted on the websites of five Jacobs Entertainment Inc. venues. DoubleDown Casino enables Jacobs Entertainment Inc. to provide its […]

Office of Fair Trading refers proposed acquisition to UK Competition Commission. Two major UK online and land gambling groups are under scrutiny this week following the Office of Fair Trading’s decision to refer the Rank plc bid for the Gala Coral group to the UK Competition Commission. Rank has issued a statement saying that it […]

30-year-old  Farrakh Nizzar punished for attempting to switch elderly couple’s winning lottery ticket The UK store clerk who attempted to defraud an elderly British couple, telling them their million pound lottery ticket was worthless, and then attempting to cash it himself (see previous InfoPowa reports), will have 30 months to repent at leisure. That’s how […]