iGaming Business – Dutch gambling monopoly Holland Casino is set to cut a third of its jobs in its head office as part of a new strategy to decentralise operations put in place as a response to its financial problems. According to the DutchNews.nl website, the firm is to give its 14 individual casinos more sat in how each operation is run, a move that will enable the company to shed 100 out of 300 jobs. Holland Casino also implemented another reorganistaion earlier this year that led to the loss of 350 jobs. The company has suffered during the last…

Press Release – The UK’s biggest casino, the London Hippodrome, risked controversy last week with its advert in The Metro seeking Door Dwarfs – to work as bouncers at the casino’s new entrance. The casino reopened its doors in July 2012 and now welcomes 35,000 visitors a week. Of course, UK residents have no real need to go to a land based casino as they can gamble online at a huge number of different casino sites. But while the convenience of online casinos will doubtless be the main attraction for people who decide to play roulette with 32Red and the…

Star-Telegram – Michigan will sell lottery tickets and offer games online in a year’s time after two companies were chosen Monday to run an “iLottery” billed as a way to help fund public schools and keep the lottery relevant. The decision came five months after lottery officials indefinitely halted their plans because lawmakers rejected Gov. Rick Snyder’s funding request to launch the online lottery. Legislators, however, did not prohibit the Lottery Bureau from spending existing money in its budget to offer Internet tickets and games on computers and mobile devices. Michigan will become the third state with an iLottery since…

The Nevada Gambling Commission has approved new regulations for multi-state jackpots, which will allow slot machines makers and keno companies to widen prize pools and offer larger jackpots across US state lines. According to the RGJ.com website, the new rules will enable companies to compete with interstate lotteries by offering greater jackpots and prizes. Attorney Dan Reaser sought the rule on behalf of gaming products designer and manufacturer International Game Technology (IGT), and online casino games and solutions company Bally Technologies. Reaser said that the idea behind the new multi-state jackpots regulations was to expand slot network games currently offered…

Casino City Times – A federal commission studying U.S. relations with China recommended closer examination of gaming in Macau, saying weak financial controls in the district pose “significant risk” of money laundering and terrorist financing. The report issued Wednesday by the U.S.-China Economic Security Review Commission stopped short of saying U.S. security interests might be at stake. But commission Chairman William Reinsch said what it found “was disturbing and raises the question that possibility is out there.” The 12-member panel, composed of experts in trade, intelligence, defense and international affairs, said it “did not seek nor did it find evidence…

Nevada gambling regulators are being asked to let manufacturers offer slot prizes in the form of pools by offering mega-lottery sized jackpots across state lines. The proposal up for approval Thursday by the Nevada Gaming Commission could propel games offered by slot giants like Bally Technologies and IGT into what one analyst called “life-changing jackpot range.” UNLV Center for Gaming Research chief David Schwartz says the companies are approaching the idea as a way to compete with interstate lotteries like the multi-million dollar Powerball. A lawyer representing the companies says Nevada casinos already have Megabucks jackpots, and tribal casinos in…