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Bingo.com Buys Two Online Bingo Sites
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| On the heels of releasing its first play-for-cash bingo games, Bingo .com has purchased two new online cash bingo sites. Bingo.com completed an asset purchase of International Learning Systems Ltd’s win a bingo .com and groovy bingo .com. |
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| Tuesday, 31 May 2005 |
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Tiki Bingo Gives 5 Online Bingo Players New Monitors
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| Online bingo site Tiki Bingo’s newest promotion is a 19 inch flat panel LCD monitor giveaway. They will be giving out one monitor every three weeks, for the next fifteen weeks. The Hawaiian-themed website is promoting the 19 inch screens as the perfect online bingo tool. |
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| Monday, 30 May 2005 |
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Online Bingo Debuts on Virgin Games
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| Virgin Games, billionaire Richard Branson’s winning online gambling website, announced its addition of Virgin Online Bingo. Branson held a launch party at the Roof Gardens in the Kensington borough of London, and released one hundred Virgin branded balloons. Bingo, according to Branson, is becoming the new poker, gaining in popularity. |
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| Sunday, 29 May 2005 |
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Cow Plop Bingo Fundraiser Held for Upstate New York Park
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| German Flatts, a town in upstate New York, will be having its third annual game of Cow Bingo on June 12th. The event, a fundraiser for the German Flatts Town Park’s upkeep, will feature a special bingo “caller,” Martina the cow. Martina will be put in a special pen in the town park. The pen is sectioned off into a grid of numbers. |
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| Saturday, 28 May 2005 |
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Bingo Jackpot Winner Shares with Sister
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| Philip and Anne Jones have been going to bingo games regularly with Philip’s sister, Lyn Smeesters, and her husband Michael for the past four years. It started as a joke. The two women said that they wanted to take up bingo, and the husbands, a truck driver and a sheet metal worker, decided to join them. |
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| Friday, 27 May 2005 |
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St. Minver’s Online Bingo Network Adds Yahoo! UK & Ireland
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| Yahoo! UK & Ireland is announcing the launch of bingo on the St. Minver’s online bingo network. The network uses Parlay’s online bingo software to offer 75-number and 90-number online bingo. By adding Yahoo! to the St. Minver’s network, the network will become the UK’s most played network. |
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| Thursday, 26 May 2005 |
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Brownfield Charities Apply for Bingo License
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| Brownfield Charities, responsible for developing Dayton, Ohio’s historic downtown Arcade, is applying for a bingo license. Brownfield Charities founder and trustee Tony Staub hopes that bingo will help bring in the money needed to cover back taxes of $120,952 owed for the five-building historical Arcade. |
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| Wednesday, 25 May 2005 |
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Belfast Bingo Hall Robbed
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| At around 10:15 on May 20th, players at an east Belfast bingo hall received an unpleasant shock. Two robbers entered the bingo hall. One man was armed with a handgun, while the other was carrying a baton. One man reportedly held the players at gunpoint, while the other looted the bingo hall’s money. |
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| Tuesday, 24 May 2005 |
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Gala Bingo Food to be Managed by Getronics
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| Gala Bingo selected Getronics to provide the management software for refreshments in the 197 casinos and bingo clubs. Over the next year, Getronics will be implementing the system, which will include a central inventory system for Gala Bingo’s food and drinks and a purchase tracking system, with simple a web-based interface. |
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| Monday, 23 May 2005 |
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Wyoming’s Charities Suffering from Loss of Electronic Bingo
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| With Wyoming’s recent ban on electronic bingo, many charitable organizations are having difficulty keeping their heads above water. While gambling is illegal in Wyoming, charitable and non-profit organizations are allowed to operate bingo games. For three years, the permit for bingo also covered electronic bingo. |
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| Saturday, 21 May 2005 |
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Online Bingo Site 888Bingo.com to Give Away Brand New VW Beetles
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| For the first time in online bingo history, online bingo players are getting the chance to win 3 Brand New 2005 VW Beetles. The first Beetle winner will be announced on May 21st, followed by another winner on September 10th and December 31st. |
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| Thursday, 19 May 2005 |
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First Quarter Results for Free Online Bingo Site Bingo.com
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| Bingo.com Ltd, the Anguilla, British West Indies-based operator of the free online bingo site www.bingo.com, presented its quarterly results for the quarter ending March 31, 2005. Revenues increased 64% over Q1 2004’s $246,189 to $403,551. |
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| Wednesday, 18 May 2005 |
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Online Bingo Software Developer Parlay Chooses Java
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| Parlay Entertainment Ltd, an Ontario-based online bingo application developer, has been building Java-based online bingo games since 1996. Parlay’s CTO Perry Malone says that they will continue building on Java, both because of the cross-platform compatibility and because of Sun Microsystems’ commitment to open source software. |
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| Tuesday, 17 May 2005 |
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Texas Debates “Pull-Tab” Electronic Bingo
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| Texas lawmakers are debating an amendment to a tax structure bill, which would enable charitable bingo organizations to use an electronic version of pull-tab bingo to increase their income. Many critics are concerned that these machines are too similar to standard slot machines, and may lead to the legalization of class III slot machines. |
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| Sunday, 15 May 2005 |
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Will Savanna Allow a Tribal Bingo Hall on an Ex-Military Base?
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| A closed military base in Savanna, Illinois could become the home to a Tribal bingo hall, a possibility that has stirred up controversy in the region. The Native American Sac and Fox Nation are staking a claim on their ancestral land from which they were expelled. |
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| Saturday, 14 May 2005 |
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Gala Bingo Wins IDM Diamond Business Award
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| The Institute of Direct Marketing (IDM) has decided to award its first prize to Gala Bingo and its advertising agents, ISD Computer Services and Perspektiv Marketing, for their recent marketing campaigns. Gala Bingo won the Diamond Business Performance Award, beating out giants such as British Telecom and the Department of Works and Pensions. |
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| Friday, 13 May 2005 |
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Pittsburgh Aviary Introduces Penguin (poop) Bingo
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| Pittsburgh’s National Aviary has introduced the newest type of bingo: penguin poop bingo. It sounds strange mostly because it is. At the aviary promotion of National Migratory Bird Days, the staff spread out a giant 75 number bingo board. They then allowed the penguins to walk on it. |
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| Thursday, 12 May 2005 |
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Gala Bingo Gives Loyal Members a Vacation
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| Gala Bingo, one of the top bingo operators in the UK, has started a new promotion offering loyal customers a free holiday. They have sent out mailings and put up posters to be sure that even infrequent visitors to their bingo halls will be aware of the new promotion. |
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| Wednesday, 11 May 2005 |
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Carlton Bingo’s Profits and Value Rising
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| Despite backing down from a float last summer, and a subsequent restructuring, Carlton Bingo is seeing a rise in profits. While this year’s profits didn’t match the £4 million necessary for the restructuring, parent group DeMure is optimistic, saying that Carlton’s value has increased by 35%. |
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| Tuesday, 10 May 2005 |
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South Carolina Senators Debate New Bingo Hall
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| South Carolina Senators are arguing whether to allow a new 24-hour high-stakes bingo parlor in the Catawba Indian Nation Reservation. Republican Senator Hayes argued that the bingo parlor could be the beginning of more serious gambling practices, and pointed out that high-stakes video bingo was similar to video poker, which the state recently outlawed. |
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| Monday, 9 May 2005 |
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Online Bingo site Kiwi Bingo Gives Away Ten New Computers
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| From the 9th of May until the 25th of September, online bingo players at Kiwi Bingo will have a chance to win 10 brand new personal computers with 17 inch flat panel monitors. The computers will be raffled from regular players who have deposited $20 or more in the two weeks of the competition. |
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| Sunday, 8 May 2005 |
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Bingo Equipment Supplier GameTech Appoints New CFO
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| Bingo equipment supplier, GameTech International, Inc., has named James Wilson their new CFO. After receiving a Bachelor’s degree in accounting from DePaul University in 1971, he completed his CPA certification in 1973. Wilson has had top positions in several companies, including Mattel Electronics and the California Angels. |
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| Saturday, 7 May 2005 |
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Online Bingo Operator Cyberbingo Raises May’s Bingo Tournament Jackpots
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| Online bingo operator Cyberbingo, the Antigua-based owner of cyber-bingo.com, is adding higher jackpots to encourage more players in May. They will be adding a high-stakes game each Saturday throughout this month. The first two will have payouts of $13,500, and the next two will have payouts of $10,600. |
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| Friday, 6 May 2005 |
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Gala Bingo Requests Banking Advice as it Moves Towards IPO
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| As our staff reported in April, Gala, the UK’s top bingo operator, is preparing to go public, following the passing of the UK Gambling Bill. With the new gambling law, Gala will be able to raise prize values and advertise, so the number of customers is expected to increase dramatically. |
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| Thursday, 5 May 2005 |
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Double Bingo Prizes for Charities Allowed by Florida Senate
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| Florida’s charity groups, churches, and veterans groups welcome the Senate’s decision to allow increased bingo jackpots. The new bill would allow jackpots of $500, double the previous $250, and regular games would have prizes of $100 instead of the previous $50. |
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| Wednesday, 4 May 2005 |
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Charity Bingo Endangered by Ontario’s Proposed Smoking Ban
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| The McGuinty bingo bill is becoming an issue of prime concern for the 4,000 charities currently supported by bingo profits. With 100 charity bingo halls operating throughout the province and close to 100,000 volunteers and workers helping organize bingo games, bingo has become the number one way for Ontario’s charitable organizations to secure funding. |
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| Monday, 2 May 2005 |
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Will California's Casino San Pablo get Bingo Machines?
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| Casino San Pablo in California is the scene of controversy again. Originally, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger had signed a compact with the tribes to allow 2500 class III slot machines, in exchange for 25% of the revenues being given over to the state, the county of Contra Costa, and the city of San Pablo. The legislature, however, may not ratify of the compact. |
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| Sunday, 1 May 2005 |
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Online Bingo from Getminted Reaches out to Bingo Club Fans
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| Getminted, owned by Cashcade Ltd, a large UK online gaming destination, has started a new ad campaign, focused on Bingo, Monopoly, and Poker. Bingo posters, advocating the new online bingo – which allows play 24/7 and live chats, will be placed outside of land-based bingo halls, such as Mecca and Gala. |
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| Sunday, 1 May 2005 |
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