Posts Tagged ‘Canada’
Vietnam Authorises Pacific Lottery Corporation
Online and mobile lottery technology provider Pacific Lottery Corporation has become the first to gain approval from the government of Vietnam to broadcast a television show devoted to the nation’s daily lottery draws. Pacific Lottery has received exclusive approval to broadcast the 30-minute Hanoi Lottery Draw nightly beginning from Monday on [...]
Harrah’s Moving Online
The world’s largest land-based gaming company, Harrah’s Entertainment Incorporated, has established a new online subsidiary under the leadership of Mitch Garber, the former Chief Executive Officer for leading virtual gaming operator PartyGaming. The Las Vegas-based giant revealed that Harrah's Interactive Entertainment Incorporated would [...]
Harrah’s Hires Garber
The world’s largest land-based gaming company, Harrah’s Entertainment Incorporated, has hired the former Chief Executive Officer for leading online gaming operator PartyGaming, Mitch Garber, to oversee its Internet operations.Harrah’s has annual revenues of around $10.8 billion and the appointment has set industry tongues wagging as to [...]
Antipodean Gamblers Lead The World
A new report into online gambling has found that players in Australia and New Zealand bet more money over the Internet than those from any other nation in the world.Professors Robert Wood and Robert Williams from the University of Lethbridge in Canada surveyed more than 20,000 adults from 105 nations for their study and found that antipodean [...]
League Supports Sundin’s Poker Deal
In Canada, the National Hockey League (NHL) has defended player Mats Sundin and his promotional activities for Isle of Man-licensed free-to-play online poker site PokerStars.net.According to a piece in The Vancouver Sun newspaper, offering online gambling services for real cash is illegal in Canada and the United States but the NHL has released a [...]
