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 …
A post on the Manchester-based digital agency Degree 53’s blog, written by managing director Andrew Daniels, informs the lifting of a ban on real-money gambling apps by the Google Play app store. Google Play has long held policies that restrict all gambling content or services that facilitate online gambling and has banned online casinos, sports …
Aristocrat chief financial officer and company secretary Toni Korsanos has chosen not to relocate from Sydney to Las Vegas with chief executive officer Trevor Crocker later this year due to personal responsibilities and will step down once a successor is found. The relocation of the chief financial officer’s role is scheduled for March 2018 and …
The Washington DC newspaper The Hill reports that political attacks on online gambling continue, with news of a July 5 letter written to Attorney General Jeff Sessions by Virginia Democrat Sen. Mark Warner. In the letter, Warner calls on Sessions to review the December 2011 opinon by the Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel that …
BetConstruct has partnered new Spanish online operator PASTÓN.es for the provision of a sportsbook platform. PASTÓN has integrated the BetConstruct Sportsbook onto its Gaming platform, providing customers with full access to pre-match and live betting coverage. The licensed Spanish online gaming operation is a project of a group of Valencia-based gambling entrepreneurs, Euroapuestas Online SAU …
LeoVegas has launched LeoVegasSport in the Danish market ahead of the opening of the new Danish Superligaen season later this week. The company simultaneously upgraded its online casino offer with an investment in Live Casino. Gustaf Hagman, group chief executive officer for LeoVegas, said. The launch of LeoVegas’ casino has been very successful and LeoVegas …
Zeus Play has teased its upcoming launch of ‘Infinium: The Exiled Gems’ in September 2017 with the release of a promotional trailer. The space travel-themed 5×3 slot will be the latest title in Zeus Play’s NXG Line. Check out the trailer here:
SoftSwiss is readying the launch of two new online video slots from previously land-based-focused slots developer and new exclusive partner, Belatra. Belatra will formally mark its first foray into the online gaming segment with the launch of two online games at the Affiliate conference in Amsterdam, ‘The Spanish Armada’ and ‘Super Sevens’. The Spanish Armada’, …
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is appealing the Australian Competitions Tribunal (ACT) approval of the Tabcorp-Tatts merger through the Federal Court system. The ACCC has filed for a judicial review of the ACT decision, in which TabCorp and Tatts Groups were granted authorisation to merge (see previous reports), believing the ACT made three …
Sydney’s Fairfield Council, which has authority over 3,836 pokie machines in 38 venues, has expressed alarm at the amount of bets going through the machines, which according to recent New South Wales research topped A$8.2 billion in 2015-2016. Actual punter losses on those stakes were around A$800 million, but anti-gambling groups have focused on the …
Online gambling company Marathonbet has become an official sponsor of Dynamo Moscow football club after signing a three-year agreement taking effect from the 2017/2018 season. The partnership will give Marathonbet wide-ranging opportunities for branding – the company logo will appear on the players’ jerseys and in the club’s home ground as well as its training …
According to reports from the Bloomberg business news service, the Chinese government has ramped up its restrictive moves to control of the internet, directing state-operated telecomm companies to institute blocks on VPN services by February 1 2018. The move follows a general crackdown on internet enforcement announced earlier this year by the government (see previous …
Telangana one of the 29 states in India, has banned online gambling and betting in a measure titled Telangana Gaming (Second Amendment) Ordinance, 2017 promulgated by state governor ESL Narasimhan. The move comes a week after state lawmakers advised the Hyderabad High Court of their intention to legislate a ban in response to public complaints …
Reports from Michigan are that S.203, an online gambling bill introduced to the Senate in March this year, has resurfaced with some changes after a period in which it appeared to languish after passing the Senate Regulatory Reform Committee (see previous reports). Early reports indicate that the bill in general remains as originally proposed, but …
Scientific Games Corporation has acquired Bristol, UK-based, real-money mobile and desktop casino games and sports app developer, Red7Mobile Ltd (Red7) for an undisclosed consideration. The acquisition provides Scientific Games with access to a large portfolio of mobile and interactive game titles, including slot games, instant win/scratch cards, and table games along with a range of …