Las Vegas Review Journal – Someone claiming to be the hackers who knocked Las Vegas Sands Corp. off the Internet for nearly a week has posted an 11-minute video purporting to show stolen internal company information and taunting the international casino operator. The video was emailed to several media outlets and was posted to YouTube.com late Monday. However, YouTube removed the video from the website before 3 p.m. Tuesday, “as a violation of YouTube’s policy on depiction of harmful activities.” The video begins with images of news coverage of the hacking, which began on Feb. 11. A few minutes in,…

Grimsby Telegraph – I AM WRITING in response to the article printed on Monday, February 10, in the Grimsby Telegraph: “£34 million – the shocking amount poured into fixed odds betting machines dubbed; The crack cocaine of gambling.” At the Association of British Bookmakers (ABB), we were very disappointed that the Grimsby Telegraph made reference to the unfounded statistic that “£34m was spent on gambling machines in betting shops across North East Lincolnshire” and that £34.3 million in cash was poured into the machines. Such figures are inaccurate estimates of turnover on B2 machine content (e.g. roulette games) and provide a…

iGaming Business – CasinoBitco.in, the Bitcoin-only gaming service and sportsbook, has acquired Bitcoin gaming properties Bit777.com, Peerbet.org and Peerdice.org from online gaming solutions provider Ultraplay. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed. CasinoBitco.in, which has been operating since May 2013, offers HTML5 blackjack, roulette, baccarat, video poker and Hi-Lo in their casino. Bit777 offers more than 50 flash-based games while Peerbet.org provides an interaction platform, raffles, a proprietary ‘wheel’ game, dice and more. Peerdice.org, an offshoot of Peerbet.org, is a new community ‘versus’ style dice game with only a 0.3% house edge. CasinoBitco.in announced its strategy to expand the…

iGaming Business – Social gaming company Zynga has filed to offer up to $126 million (€92 million) on behalf of some of the new shareholders it obtained during its acquisition of mobile gaming firm NaturalMotion, according to the Wall Street Journal newspaper As reported by iGaming Business last month, Zynga announced that it completed the purchase of NaturalMotion in a deal worth around $527 million. Under the agreement, Zynga said it would issue 39.8 million shares. The company registered 28.2 million for sale on behalf of the shareholders on Wednesday (February 12). Balderton Capital, the earliest investor in NaturalMotion, is…

iGaming Business – Online casino games provider Net Entertainment has cited the effect of earlier investments as the reason behind year-on-year revenue increase to record levels in the 12 months through to December 31, 2013. The firm posted record full-year revenue of SEK630.7 million (€71.6 million/$97.9 million), a 19.8% increase on the SEK536.7 million achieved in the previous year. Operating profit for the year grew from SEK153.1 million in 2012 to SEK179.7 million in 2013, while profit after tax amounted to SEK167.1 million, up from SEK136.1 million in the previous year. Net Entertainment signed a total of 27 licence agreements…

Fox 5 – A man from the United Kingdom was hit by a truck while crossing a street near the Las Vegas Strip on Tuesday morning. The crash happened about 9:15 a.m. at the intersection of Flamingo Road and Linq Lane. Las Vegas Metro police said the 54-year-old British man was crossing Flamingo in a crosswalk when the driver of a flatbed truck turned left onto Flamingo on a green light. They said the truck driver didn’t see the man in the crosswalk and hit him. They said the pedestrian was thrown to the ground. Police said the victim of…