The NetEnt online gambling group has posted an interim report covering performance in the first half of 2017, with CEO and president Per Eriksson highlighting continued solid growth, higher profitability and a strong cash flow. The most important growth drivers were mobile games, along with the regulated markets in Great Britain and Italy. “During June, …
Online gambling numbers again boosted brick and mortar casino performance in New Jersey, according to June figures released Wednesday by the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement. At $20.23 million, overall June online revenues soared more than 23 percent in the fourth consecutive month of year-on-year gains in excess of 20 percent, whilst land casino …
Major Italian online gambling operator HBG Gaming has signed up for developer BetSoft Gaming’s suite of games, which have been approved for the regulated market by AAMS. Stephen Jackman, Betsoft’s head of product development, said that HBG has fourteen years’ experience in the strictly regulated Italian market, with an impressive reputation for customer care and …
Gamevy and Glück Games have inked a strategic partnership in which both firms will form an instant-win portfolio for distribution of each others content to key operators. “We realised it made sense for two small companies to collaborate,” Helen Walton, chief commercial officer for Gamevy, said. “Rather than competing, it makes sense to grow the …
San Francisco-based mobile lottery service, AutoLotto, has closed a $17 million Series A funding round, led by various private investors. The funding round will support the growth and expansion of the company’s mobile app, which enables users to play the PowerBall lottery, track and check ticket results using the scan function on their mobile device. …
GVC Holdings went live today (Wednesday) with Blueprint Gaming casino games content, including Jackpot King, GVC’s first ever third party jackpot. GVC has integrated 30 of Blueprint Gaming’s most popular slots across the group’s portfolio of brands, including bwin and Sportingbet. The rollout includes four Jackpot King games, Top Cat, Slots O’ Gold, Super Spinner …
NetEnt’s innovative reality TV-style series featuring its own staff members has reportedly hit 1.4 million views since its May launch and significantly boosted applications from employment seekers. “The Employer Branding campaign, which was designed to cement NetEnt’s reputation as a top-tech employer in the highly competitive gaming industry, has helped NetEnt scale new heights in …
Bitcoin sportsbook Sportsbet.io announced a new one-year sponsorship deal with CS:GO eSports team, HellRaisers, Wednesday. Under the terms of the agreement, Sportsbet.io will offer its customers bet boosts on eSports matches featuring HellRaisers, as well as promoting competitions for skins. HellRaisers are currently ranked in the world’s top 20 CS:GO teams and feature star players …
WinADay online casino players can now deposit and withdraw Bitcoins, a popular international cryptocurrency, the operator announced Wednesday, claiming that such transactions are easy, safe and quick – ideal for online purchases like casino deposits and withdrawals. Casino manager Michael Hilary said in a statement: “Bitcoins are fast. Deposits are instantly credited and withdrawals are …
In a scathing op-ed in the Washington Examiner this week, political columnist Eric Peters detailed how land casino mogul Sheldon Adelson uses his billions to wield political and media clout to achieve his personal agendas. Among these is his antipathy to legalised and regulated online gambling, and Peters details the millions he is prepared to …
Ten of the nineteen Crown Resorts employees arrested in China late last year for promoting gambling (see previous reports) have been released from two Chinese detention centres, the Reuters news service reported Wednesday. Sixteen of the original number arrested were convicted and sentenced to jail terms in June this year, with time already served taken …
In a precursor to a more detailed revamp of Ireland’s overall gambling laws, the Irish Cabinet has approved an age limit of 18 years for all gambling activity. The Cabinet signed off on the Courts and Civil Liabilities (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill Tuesday as a forerunner to more detailed changes designed to modernise the outdated Gaming …
Sports betting technology provider SBTech claims it has become the first sportsbook platform supplier to enter the Cypriot market with the launch of Winmasters.com.cy, saying that the launch comes only six months after the agreement between SBTech and Winmasters was signed. Winmasters will now offer SBTech’s sportsbook to Cypriot players, in both Greek and English, …
It looks as if the gambling expansion debate in Pennsylvania is set to drag on until at least next week following a tweet Wednesday in which the usually well-informed analyst Chris Krafcik advised: “PA pols delay #gaming/#igaming talks. House, Senate on recess; House not expected back ’til next week, House GOP spox told me.” Our …
In a media interview this week daily fantasy sports market leader Fanduel’s CEO, Nigel Eccles, hinted that he may be prepared to walk away from the planned merger with rival DraftKings (see previous reports) following the Federal Trade Commission’s vote last month to block the deal, which officials say would give the merged entity 90 …
Trading in Aspire Global plc shares on the Nasdaq First North Premier exchange in Stockholm commenced Tuesday, making the online gambling technology B2B provider the 71st company to be admitted to trading on Nasdaq’s Nordic markets in 2017. Aspire Global was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Silema, Malta. Tsachi Maimon, CEO of Aspire …
Ukraine development studio Booongo has entered into a distribution deal with GrooveGaming in which the start-up platform provider has integrated Booongo’s full suite of 17 slot titles. The deal includes upcoming releases from the young development studio, of which nine are reportedly in the pipeline. GrooveGaming currently offers proprietary slot titles along with third party …
Win A Day Casino has integrated BitCoin functionality into its services allowing its customers to deposit and withdraw the cryptocurrency and take advantage of a choice of bitcoin-specific deposit bonuses. The online casino converts Bitcoin deposits to USD, refreshing the exchange rate every 15 minutes with the average rate of the three top Bitcoin exchanges. …
Malta-headquartered B2B online casino platform provider Aspire Global commenced trading on Nasdaq’s First North Premier stock exchange in the consumer services sector, Tuesday (see previous report). Aspire Global offers a full-service B2B solution for the online casino industry with in-house proprietary technology licensed in regulated territories including the UK, Denmark, Belgium, Italy and Malta. “We …
Swedish games developer Quickspin has relaunched its ‘Goldilocks and the Wild Bears’ with an HTML5 upgrade and the integration of its Achievements Engine. First released in 2014, the troublesome golden girl is back and naughtier than ever before with improved HTML5 technology providing a more immersive user experience and the ability to play in portrait …
Playtech, in a licensing collaboration with Lionsgate, has launched ‘Dirty Dancing’, a multi-jackpot progressive slot based on the iconic 1987 American romantic drama dance movie featuring Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey. The new slot remains true to the hit dance romance which was the first film to sell more than one million home videos when …
Swedish publicly listed AhaWorld AB has partnered Finnplay for the provision of its licensed platform to the ahaCasino.com and MoboCasino.combrands. AhaWorld will launch under Finnplay’s Malta-licensed platform enabling the company access to a wide choice of tier 1 games content. The development also gives the company expansion opportunities with future access to other regulated markets …
Kindred Group (formerly Unibet) has become the first private operator to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Anti Doping Danmark (ADD), a self-governing institution that falls under the Danish Government’s Ministry of Culture. Under the MoU, Kindred Group has undertaken to report suspicious betting activity directly into ADD’s platform which is rooted in the …
NetEnt has announced a second massive jackpot win of over Euro 5 million in under three weeks, this latest by a lucky Swedish LeoVegas online punter who hit a life-changing jackpot of Euro 5,505,845 playing NetEnt’s Mega Fortune Dreams slot on July 2, 2017. Our readers will recall NetEnt recently announced a Euro 7,525,932.97 million …