23-12-05
The proliferation of online casinos operating from Gibraltar, a Mediterranean licensing jurisdiction, has led to the introduction of legislation that will make a statutory regulatory and licensing open framework for online gambling.
Operators of online gaming businesses are enthused about the new regulatory laws as is it provides for them, for the first time, strict [...]

21-12-05
December 21, 2005 (Nicosia, CY) – On a ninety cent bet, one of the largest ever casino jackpots online was won last week with the winner receiving a cool US$1.77 million. Millionaires Club is a 9-line slot game with a fast growing progressive Jackpot — a hugely popular Internet slot game licensed exclusively by [...]

The popularity and proliferation of poker, both on and offline, is expected to continue according to Richard Segal, CEO of PartyGaming – the world’s largest online poker operator for PartyPoker.2005 was a landmark year for online poker and the online gaming industry as a whole. This year saw three large London stock market flotations, generating [...]

Thursday December 22, 6:30 am ET

VIENNA, Austria, December 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — BETandWIN.com Interactive Entertainment AG has acquired the exclusive international marketing rights to the German Soccer League and the Second Division for the next three seasons up to and including 2008/2009. The media rights acquired include all international television broadcasting as well [...]

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The Sportsbetting Group has a new set of owners. The board of World Gaming Plc has announced the acquisition of the Sportsbetting Group in a move that is forecast to increase the group’s revenues and profitability.
Daniel Moran, CEO of World Gaming said, ”The acquisition of the Sportsbetting.com Group is a significant extension [...]

GigaMedia Limited  (GIGM) entered into a definitive agreement today to acquire FunTown, a leading Asian online casual game portal and operator of the world’s largest online Mahjong game site in terms of revenue.
GigaMedia expects the transaction to be strongly EPS accretive and generate significant increases in revenues and net income beginning in the first [...]

The boom in online gambling — along with concerns about sending money to Internet casinos that operate out of loosely regulated locales like Aruba, Costa Rica and Belize – has spawned a cottage industry: Web sites that purport to tell gamblers which operations they can trust, and which have reputations for cheating players.
These self-styled watchdogs [...]

Dec. 12, 2005 
Traffic.Media announced the acquisition of OddJack.com, the Gambling Guide from the Gawker Media blogging network of influential blogger Nick Denton. The sale includes the Oddjack.com domain name and all web site assets such as story archives, logos and trade marks.
OddJack, the Gambling Guide is one of the most recognized gambling blogs. [...]

BETandWIN.com announced the acquisition of Ongame16-12-05
Stockholm and Vienna, December 16, 2005, BETandWIN.com Interactive Entertainment AG (VSE: BWIN) announced today that it has entered into a Share Purchase Agreement (“SPA”) for the acquisition of 100% of the shares in Ongame e-solutions AB (“Ongame”). Ongame owns and operates, amongst other sites, one of the world’s leading [...]