From iGaming Business American lottery and gaming technology provider WMS Industries Incorporated has announced that its Williams Interactive LLC subsidiary has signed a deal that will see its portfolio of slots made available to online bingo sites utilising the Dragonfish platform from operator 888 Holdings. Waukegan-based WMS Industries revealed that more than 20 games from Williams Interactive’s growing library including Bruce Lee, Kronos, Super Jackpot Party, Zeus and The Wizard Of Oz will initially be made available to over 60 licensees of the Dragonfish platform. “This expanded relationship significantly grows the global audience for our great gaming content while also…

State BCI agents along with the Medina County Sheriff’s Office made Internet gambling arrests after they raided two alleged illegal gambling establishments Tuesday morning. The owner was arrested. The raids were at Cyber City on Medina Road in Medina and at Cyber 777′s on Pearl Road in Brunswick. “These are not internet cafes,” said Attorney General Mike DeWine. “The joint investigation shows that these locations are operating as illegal casinos with no regulatory oversight.” The owner of the businesses was taken into custody. A search warrant was served at his home and at another business maintained by him in Akron….

From Sacramento Business Journal A bill that sought to legalize sports betting in California failed to move by the deadline Friday. Odd are that without a clear national policy in play, no effort will be made on the issue next year in California. Senate Bill 190 was introduced in February by state Sen. Roderick Wright, an Inglewood Democrat. It sought to legalize sports betting at the venues in California that allow legal gambling, which are Indian casinos, card rooms and horse racing tracks. The measure required bets to be made in person, with the idea that the new traffic would…

From Gambling 911 Two operators of an online gambling website based in Costa Rica have been sentenced to prison Monday. Thomas Uva IV, aka “Little T,” 32, was sentenced to 21 months, followed by three years of supervised release, and John Colello, 54, was sentenced to six months, followed by two years of supervised release.   Together they ran the website 44wager.com The two Stanford, Connecticut men were charged along with 18 others with running an illegal sports betting site and card gambling clubs.  The charges stemmed from a long-term investigation ledby the FBI Fairfield County Organized Crime Task force and the Stamford…

From iGaming Business Eight leading social games companies including Plumbee Limited and Zynga Incorporated have joined forces to officially launch the International Social Games Coalition. The International Social Games Coalition was first informally premiered in April at a meeting in San Francisco and stated that it will now showcase the industry’s work and ‘educate people about free-to-play games on the Internet’. “The social games industry is at the heart of our emerging digital economy, so as it continues to grow it is essential that the sector has a collective voice,” said Luc Delaney, a former senior executive with Facebook and…

From iGaming Business After launching free-play roulette and blackjack mobile apps in September, three-dimensional online poker domain PKR.com has premiered a mobile poker real-money edition for Apple iPhone and iPad players in the UK. Offering Texas hold‘em sit-and-go tournaments and ring games alongside pot-limit Omaha and Omaha hi-lo, PKR.com declared that its new app offers the ‘best graphics in mobile poker’ and is ‘fully compatible’ with the iPhone 4 and above as well as the iPad. It also features a ‘full in-game chat system’, 40 three-dimensional avatars with mood, emote and chip trick animations alongside 20 distinct playing environments. “We…