Taiwanese and Chinese security forces jointly busted an Internet gambling ring Tuesday, shutting down a betting website that collected as much as NT$100 million (US$3.334 million) through a third-party payment process, according to Taiwan’s Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB). The website operator sold gambling chips and points that can be used to exchange with those offered by various other Internet gambling websites and even converted into cash, a spokesman for the team said. Through the website, online gamblers could bet on hundreds of games by just printing out payment slips at convenience stores. The online gambling website’s operator is in Taiwan,…

Taking advantage of the fast-growing mobile casino industry, two successful companies pair up to offer players new mobile poker games. Mobile casino software provider Las Vegas from Home.com Entertainment (LVFH) will be working closely with PokerTek to launch a couple of brand new HTML5 casino and poker games. LVFH will be offering its HMTL5 mobile platform to PokerTek, one of the best table game suppliers working with cruise ship and land-based casinos around the world. The software expert’s platform sports desktop and mobile blackjack, poker and several other casino games which players can enjoy at home or on the go,…

iGaming Business – Geolocations solutions provider GeoComply has announced that it has provided more than five million geolocation results for its customers in New Jersey just four weeks after the US state officially launched its regulated online gaming market. The firm currently provides geolocation verification services to 10 out of the 11 licensed online gambling websites in New Jersey. GeoComply said the figure was representative of both its own achievements in the New Jersey market and the US state’s success since opting to legalise online gambling. “GeoComply is delighted to see New Jersey’s regulated internet gaming market performing so strongly,”…

Online-Casinos.com – The New Year approaches along with the opportunity to learn more and develop strategies to expand and improve. Everyone knows that mobile online gambling is evolving at a fast pace with the expanded power and range of smart phones and other mobile devises. With mobile growth predicted to fuel the global gaming market to as much as $86.1B by 2016, it is time to capitalize on the trend. The Mobile Gaming Forum is scheduled to take place on the 22nd and 23rd of January in 2014 at the Novotel London West. This definitive global event is where over…

Playing Bitcoin poker? Well, if poker wasn’t already enough of a gamble, players are increasingly placing bets with the most speculative currency of them all. Poker websites have started accepting bitcoin from U.S. players to skirt federal legislation that makes it illegal to transfer funds associated with illegal Internet gambling, at a time when bitcoin advocates are striving to distance the virtual currency from illegal activities. The move to bitcoin in online poker started after the Department of Justice seized three of the biggest poker websites in the U.S. on April 15, 2011, a day known as Black Friday in…

For the past couple of months I have been in the thrall of a game called Candy Crush Saga. It’s about matching little colored thingies on your iPad or phone. I am not going to explain it in any more depth, because that would just make this whole discussion more humiliating. However, if you stick with me, I am going to try to use it to make a sweeping point about public policy, ending with some severe questions about the political career of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. About the game: It’s been played about 150 billion times over the…