Press Release – The Virtual Gaming Show is an online meetup of industry professionals that takes place in a conference Setting. You get an avatar and walk the exhibition floor, chat with people, see booths, participate in lectures and hangout at the bar. It has all the advantages of a real exhibition only it is online. The upcoming Virtual Gaming Show on September 11-12 will host land casinos, online casinos, affiliates, sportsbooks and social/mobile gaming people. Whether you are a service provider, a brick and mortar casino, an affiliate or an operator the virtual gaming show is where you want…

Press Release – This affiliate event offers an impressive integrated platform for communication, promotion, training and business partnership across the affiliate marketing landscape.  Offering attendees unique insight into opportunities to development business within Russia and across the CIS countries, in line with international market trends. Visit:  www.RACE-Expo.ru

Gambling911 – Bitcoin is becoming big business in the world of online gambling.  Earlier in the month, Gambling911.com reported that one of its ad sponsors, SportsBettingOnline.com, had become the first online sportsbook that was not bitcoin exclusive to begin offering the anonymous digital currency. Gambling911.com will be bringing on a bitcoin-specific online sportsbook during the month of September as well. The online gambling sector is slowly beginning to embrace the sometimes controversial currency that in recent months has come under more intense scrutiny of the US Government. One firm is now reporting that online gambling actually accounts for half of…

CNBC – Online bookmakers are scrambling to move into Europe and Australia to offset potential losses from an upcoming U.K. gambling tax, which could cause a “seismic shift” in the industry, according to analysts. From December 2014, a 15 per cent levy will be placed on remote offshore gambling firms that serve U.K. customers, in a move that may raise £300 million pounds ($467 million) for the taxpayer. This will hit major U.K. bookmakers like William Hill and Ladbrokes, which operate from Gibraltar, where taxes are currently levied at 1 per cent and capped at £425,000. Analysts said the so-called…

4Flush.com – Recent confirmation that the United Kingdom plans to go ahead with plans to increase the tax assessment against remote online gambling sites serving UK bettors has many of the targeted online sites up in Gibraltar, the “Rock” territory near the entrance to the Mediterranean sea that juts out from Spain’s southern coast.  Tiny Gibraltar, all 2.6 square miles of it, has been a British protectorate for centuries. These days, in addition to being the home of a feisty, feral pack of macaque monkeys, the so-designated British Overseas Territory is also home to a feisty, feral pack of British…

Silicon Angle – Banks, retailers, Google, the NSA, they all lover their data. But one of the more intriguing use cases for Big Data involves the gambling industry, a sector that’s so reliant on number crunching and intelligent prediction that it’s been left with little choice to grab a hold of its masses of data and exploit it to the max. The first adopters of Big Data in the betting game were, unsurprisingly, the bookies themselves. UK bookmaker Paddy Power‘s experience is one that mirrors that of many leading betting sites, when the rise of online gambling meant that it…