Europe News - Page 119

International News Brief: Online betting exchange Betfair.com has been awarded a licence to operate out of Malta which will enable it to offer services which UK gambling legislation currently inhibits.

Playtech reports the termination of its software license granted to VBC Ltd, operators of Casino Solei since 2003.

International News Brief: Mobile entertainment revenues are set to soar over the rest of the decade, owing to a rapid expansion in mobile content, including gambling.

International News Brief: Will it be a monkey on Michael or a pony on Tony? Neither, according to political punters, who are rushing to a lay a carpet (that's £3) on Charles Kennedy instead.

International News Brief: Paul Maxfield returned home with the largest sum ever netted by any Briton in a poker game in the United States.

International News Brief: The French online casino business has been in full swing for several years.

International News Brief: Sheffield United have announced they have not dropped plans to build an £80 million casino at Bramall Lane.

Camel Honda today announced a new partnership with one of the most important casinos in Europe, Casinò di Campione.

Loto Catalunya has awarded Scientific Games and Indra the contract to provide full lottery facilities management services for the autonomous region of Catalonia in Spain for both online and instant lottery products and services.

International News Brief: Coventry Conservatives received support for lobbying for the city to have Britain's first supercasino, Michael Howard said last night.

International News Brief: William Hill is offering the world's worst odds for Chelsea to win the Premiership title.

Gaming Laboratories International reports that its European office has received an extension of its exclusive testing agreement with the Norwegian Gaming Board.

International News Brief: The French have taken to online gambling like a duck a l'orange to water, according to Europe-wide figures from analysts Nielsen//NetRatings.

International News Brief: Large casino complexes do not pose a threat to British society, despite concerted opposition to their establishment under the new Gambling Act, said Prime Minister Tony Blair.

International News Brief: The government could renege on an agreement to build only one super casino and instead allow at least four, it emerged today.

International News Brief: A couple walked into a casino near the Lisbon, Portugal over the weekend and left minutes later with 641,215 euros after putting a total of just 60 cents into a slot machine, a casino spokeswoman said.

International News Brief: Hyatt Regency officially announced it has been awarded the 15-year exclusive casino licence in Tirana, Albania.

International News Brief: Swiss casinos had a winning year in 2004, taking in SFr769 million ($645 million), an increase of 37 per cent on the previous year.

International News Brief: Isle of Capri was today granted a gaming licence for its casino at Coventry Arena.

International News Brief: Chinese gangsters are alleged to be laundering cash by lending it illegally to hapless punters on a losing streak