Author: Nathan

Mozilla is busy prepping Firefox 4 for release, offering a “release candidate version” of the software this week. There’s been talk about this new version’s capability to make the most of HTML5 — which we discussed recently here at the CAP News page. The new version of Firefox is designed to showcase HTML5’s capabilities with…

Add Nevada to the list of states considering regulating Internet poker to help bring much-needed revenues into government coffers. It’s no surprise that Nevada, with its gambling-oriented culture, would make this move -- especially considering its recent approval of a deal between Caesars and 888. But what is surprising is that the idea would allow…

In New Jersey, where the casino industry is still reeling from Governor Chris Christie’s unexpected veto of a bill that would regulate and legalize online gambling, experts are still predicting that regulation will happen. The question is, when. “Well, no one seems to know exactly what the next step will be,” writes Larry Josephson at…

This week, Nevada’s Gaming Control Board approved “the suitability of a relationship” between U.S.-based Caesars Entertainment with “subsidiaries of an Israel-based Internet gaming company operating in the United Kingdom’s overseas territory of Gibraltar,” writes Richard N. Velotta at the Las Vegas Sun.That Internet gaming company is 888, or, more specifically, 888’s business-to-business online gaming software…

Calling online gambling the ''Wild West'' of unregulated industries, Australian Member of Parliament (MP) Andrew Wilkie, of independent political affiliation, has called for reforms on the industry and potentially even a nationwide ban (though that extreme outcome is somewhat unlikely). In Australia, online gambling is governed by the Interactive Gambling Act of 2001 (IGA), which…

One of the globe’s biggest online bingo developers, Playtech’s Virtue Fusion, recently announced a series of upgrades to its customer retention portfolio. The updates were designed to help the company’s many online bingo clients better retain its customers. The new services will also help affiliates, who reap greater commission rates from lifetime players.  These new…

In preparation for the Dublin-based iGaming Super Show scheduled for May 24 through 26, event organizers iGaming Business have announced a special spring “iGaming Social” to be held next week on St. Patrick’s Day, Thursday, March 17. The iGaming Social is designed to celebrate the iGaming Super Show’s move to Dublin (it’d previously been held…

As the Canadian provinces of Quebec and British Columbia continue to roll out improvements and expansions to their state-regulated online gambling systems, more Canadian provinces look to get in on the action. Per the Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC), the Atlantic Lottery Corp is considering expanding its online gambling operations to New Brunswick, if that province’s…

A whopping 98 percent of people who sign up for affiliate programs proceed to do exactly nothing with them, a new report by MarketingPilgrim from PubCon Austin says. According to the report, the responsibility for that gap lies with the affiliate managers, 90% of whom fail to properly engage and inform affiliates of how to…

In a move that’s anticipated to save the company about £18.5 million a year — no small change, especially given how competitive the UK’s online gambling market is — leading betting exchange (and CAP Listed Program) Betfair has announced it will start using a Gibraltar online betting license, as opposed to the United Kingdom license…