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Rob van der Gaast Gaming Guru - Page 13Eye on Europe - July 25, 200625 July 2006
State Protection -- The 5th Chamber of the Administrative Court of the City Bremen, Germany, has decided that football club Werder Bremen may advertise bwin (formerly Betandwin) as its main sponsor, shirt sponsor and board advertising sponsor. The judge ruled that bwin's betting license, granted in former East Germany in 1990, is valid in Bremen. ... (read more)
France's FDJ Battles to Preserve Its Monopoly24 July 2006
A very interesting court case is developing in France. The Association of Modern Casinos in France (Casinos Modernes de France) has lodged a complaint with the European Commission and Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin against the monopoly that the French state has on the gambling market, claiming that the ... (read more)
Editorial: The Craziness of this Gambling Industry20 July 2006
Just as I finished reading all the news reports on the investigation of BetonSports in the United States, I received information from bwin (formerly BetandWin) concerning its gross gaming revenue margin from sports betting operations of the World Cup. It was 6.7 percent--well below the range obtained in the previous quarters of between 8 percent and 10 percent. ... (read more)
Q & A: Martin Arendts19 July 2006
European gambling's legal battlefield is amassing court cases, particularly in the area of sports betting, and one of the hottest spots has been Germany, where hundreds of cases on sports betting have been heard in the last three years. Making matters particularly interesting are famous verdicts, such as ... (read more)
Revamping Belgian Law - Internet Gambling Remains in the Mix12 July 2006
Belgian's most recently passed gambling law, which went into effect on April 19, 2002, was set up "to rationalize the operation and direction of the National Lottery (NL)," and Article 4, § 1 of the law granted to the new "Nationale Loterij" (NL) the legal form of a private company with limited liability of public law and a registered capital of 62,000 euro (the legal minimum). ... (read more)
EYE on Europe - July 11, 200611 July 2006
Early Checkout -- Last week, Google Checkout, Google's new service that makes online shopping faster, was introduced in Europe. IGN asked the Google Checkout team if one could buy betting tickets via this new service. The answer: "Betting tickets appear to fall under our content policies for gambling-related ... (read more)
Standoff in Germany - Authorities Want to Block BetandWin Football Sponsorships11 July 2006
As the gun smoke cleared after the World Cup Soccer, new clashes flared between the German private Internet betting companies and the national authorities.
The problem is the GDR licensees that are the five gaming operators of the former East Germany. When the unification of West Germany and East Germany ... (read more)
German Judge Operates as Magician for Gambling Industry29 June 2006
According to mediacompany.sohn, a 31-year-old businessman from Heidenheim, Germany had to wait 4.5 years to get a decision from the Strafsenats des Oberlandesgerichts Stuttgart (First penal court of the higher regional court of Stuttgart - OLG). This week OLG Stuttgart rejected the cassation of the public ... (read more)
Eye on Europe - June 26, 200626 June 2006
Congratulations -- At Internetworld's yearly Top 100 event, where Sweden's best online sites are seeded, Cherry's Betsson was chosen to as the best Swedish website in the category of Sport and Gambling. In competition with other prominent gambling sites, Betsson was seen to have an innovative interface, ... (read more)
NDS & SKY Italia Launch Interactive TV Betting Platform23 June 2006
NDS, a technology solutions provider for digital pay-TV, announced last week that it has partnered with SKY Italia to launch the first ever interactive television betting platform for the Italian market.
The platform allows SKY Italia’s customers to securely place bets on a range of sports through two of ... (read more)
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