News snippets from Lottery Insiders BLOG for Saturday

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Saturdays News Snippets

US Bidder For Lotto Licence Raises €500m In War Chest

DUBLIN, Ireland (December 6, 2012) -- The US investor hotly tipped as one of the frontrunners to win the 20-year National Lottery licence has raised a €500m war chest on the bond market....

Councils Now want to run their own Lottery - Doesnt everyone these days ?
Story on this in monday's edition..............

Online gaming and betting: Commission Raises Serious Doubts About The Compliance Of German Gambling Regime with EU law

BRUSSELS, Belgium (December 7, 2012) -- EU online gambling operators welcome the European Commission’s ‘detailed opinion’ against the Draft Act amending acts pertaining to gambling law of the land of Schleswig-Holstein (Gaming Amendment Act S-H) which is seeking to replace its existing legislation with the controversial German State Treaty on gambling (GST). ..........................

Taxing gambling winnings of OPAP .................................The vertical reaction on taxing gambling winnings of OPAP expresses in a letter to the Finance Minister by the Panhellenic Federation of Tourist Agents Game Prediction OPAP.

 

SG Gaming Announces New Relationship With Paddy Power

SG Gaming, a division of Scientific Games Corporation (Nasdaq: SGMS), which recently brought together three successful businesses from the gaming world, The Global Draw, Barcrest and Games Media, today announced that The Global Draw has signed a contractwith Paddy Power to supply gaming machines to a portion of the PaddyPower estate.

OpenBet called upon as Platform of Choice for Sky Vegas and its New Mobile Offering

Sky Vegas extends longstanding partnership with OpenBet to dial-in to mobile market
LONDON, UK (December 6, 2012) -- The leading sportsbook and online gaming software supplier, OpenBet, is pleased to announce that it has extended its relationship with Sky Vegas and was chosen to provide the back-end infrastructure of their new HTML 5 based mobile gaming product that launches today. The Sky Vegas product is based on advanced HTML 5 technology to ensure compatibility with all smartphones and tablets while ensuring they retain as much control over where the product is available.......................

Nevada Gaming Revenues Up In October

CARSON CITY, Nevada (December 7, 2012) -- Nevada state gambling revenues are continuing a slight upward trend, with officials reporting that casinos won almost 2 percent more in October compared with the same month a year ago....................