EnergyCasino has launched a new brand awareness and player acquisition campaign in the Polish market. The campaign is headlined by professional bodybuilder Robert Burneika, aka Hardkorowy Koksu, who has a loyal and strong following in Poland. “Robert Burneika embodies so much of what the Energy brand is all about; he’s powerful, he’s capable, he delivers, …
Swedish online slots development specialist Quickspin has been ranked among the top 50 technology companies in the country by financial advisory giant Deloitte. The firm was listed in the Deloitte Fast 50 Sweden 2016, a rundown of the fastest growing tech companies based on average revenue increase over the past four years. The acknowledgement is …
Multi-channel sportsbook and casino platform provider Digitain has overhauled the user interface for Armenia’s largest multi-vertical operator, TotoGaming and upgraded it with new platform features. The site is already powered by Digitain’s gaming platform, and has now been bolstered with a raft of new P2P games, that include Belote and Backgammon. The Digitain gaming platform …
Demand for Teddy Sagi’s 32.3 million Playtech ordinary shares offered for sale in a bookbuilding sale Tuesday (see previous report) has clearly been keen; in a follow-up statement Wednesday Playtech advised that Brickington actually sold 38.7 million shares at 850p per share. The advisory notes that due to strong investor demand, Brickington agreed with its …
The Nevada Gaming Control Board had good news for the state gaming industry Tuesday, reporting that revenues rose 11.2 percent year-on-year during the month of October 2016. Casino gaming revenue topped $887.5 million during the month, with the Las Vegas Strip doing particularly well – up 14 percent to $562.7 million. On the games front …
The Playtech online gambling group has advised investors that Teddy Sagi – its biggest shareholder – plans to sell almost a third of his Playtech stock, a move that at today’s share price of GBP 9.19 could realise the Israeli billionaire a cool GBP 296 million. Sagi’s proposed sale of 32.3 million Playtech shares will …
Bill H.6586, a bill seeking to declare illegal all daily fantasy sports betting which was filed earlier this year in the Illinois House but remained dormant, has resurfaced in a last-minute attempt at passage in the closing few days of the state legislature. The bill, which was authored by Rep. Scott Drury, exempts season-long fantasy …
Australian gambling equipment and software supplier Aristocrat posted its full year results to end September 2016 Tuesday, reporting that normalised profit after tax and before amortisation of acquired intangibles (NPATA) reached A$398 million, up 69 percent year-on-year. The company said that revenues grew 34 percent, especially in the Americas where revenue rose 28 percent to …
Russia’s relatively small legal sports betting community is in uproar following claims last week by Digital Betting chief exec Dmitry Sergeyev that an unidentified but significant online bookmaker had been hacked and the stolen data was available at a price. The hackers were apparently prepared to sell their ill-gotten gains for the equivalent of around …
The National Council of Legislators from Gaming States annual gathering in January will attempt to get new lawmakers up to speed on internet gambling with a “Gaming 101” module, according to the publication South Florida Reporter. With state legislative bodies welcoming new lawmakers after the elections this year such a service is necessary to enable …
A young South African game design studio is making innovative inroads into land casino gaming following a content agreement with Las Vegas-based land casino games supplier Slot Game Lab. The founder and CEO of Slot Games Labs, Adi Cohen, says the innovative concepts and animation delivered by Bla Bla Bla attracted him to a deal …
Two Swedish-listed online gambling companies clinched a SEK 25 million deal this week when Play Hippo acquired Futuremark Gaming Group, owned by the New Equity Venture (Nevi) group. Futuremark is the operator of three gaming sites: pdisewin.com, mywin24.com, and vipstakes.com. All three sites offer games from Microgamingand Netent along with a live casino. The three …
The Philippine Department of Justice has reported receiving up to P200,000 (GBP 3216) for the release of each of the 1,316 Chinese nationals arrested last week in the Fontana Leisure Park and Casino raids (see previous reports). According to Global Nation Enquirer, the revelation from Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II comes as the Philippine Bureau …
Online casino operator, Casino Kings, has boosted its web and mobile gaming portfolio with seven BluePrint Gaming titles including Casper’s Mystery Mirror, Fortunes of Sparta, Jewel Strike and Wild Antics. “Casino Kings players love innovative games, which is exactly what we look to provide,” Nathan Howes, marketing manager for Casino Kings commented.
A collaboration by leading international football clubs and footballers has led to the launch of Dugout, a new, free-to-access digital social football platform offering exclusive football content to sports fans. The platform will offer club and player originated content twenty-four hours before it is published on a wider basis. “Football fans are hungry to discover …
The massive online gambling and immigration bust by Philippines authorities late last week, in which 1,318 Chinese nationals were detained (see previous report) has been followed by a government announcement from the Bureau of Immigration that it is preparing to deport those arrested to their homeland. Bureau officials said in a statement that the detainees …
Online casino content provider World Match has partnered Spanish operator R. Franco Group for the distribution of online gaming content on Wanabet.es. World March considers the deal an important expansion in the Spanish market which it believes may also potentially lead to opening doors in Latin America. “In addition to providing an in-depth know-how of …
Swedish gaming operator ahaWorld will integrate a new portfolio of gaming content from ELK Studios following a deal announced earlier this week. The games will be integrated to ahaWorld’s Ahabingo.com and Ahacasino.com operations. “ELK Studios games portfolio is perhaps the most interesting portfolio of next-generation slot games in the casino market,” Krister Bergström, president of …
Thai authorities are the latest to effect arrests on illegal online gambling following a raid in Pattaya. Twenty people were arrested for allegedly betting on foreign football matches with Police seizing three computers, a printer, betting slips and THB 75,000 in cash. According to the Bangkok Post, the raid was led by Pol Col Apichai …
The authorities in Cyprus are tightening online gambling counter measures; a parliamentary finance committee was assured this week by the National Betting Authority, which reported to lawmakers that it is in the process of ISP-blocking some 2,500 websites offering illegal online gambling to Cypriots. Monday’s hearing of the House committee focused on a series of …
The UK Gambling Commission is addressing what is clearly a need for online gambling marketers to better understand and comply with rules and regulations around the advertising of gambling services in Britain. The Advertising Standards Authority has been increasingly clamping down on unsuitable advertising and promotional offers recently, particularly in regard to email and television …
The Alderney Gambling Control Commission (AGCC) has given its approval to the e-gaming hosting facilities operated by telecommunications company Sure. The company provides services across the Channel Islands, will be able to use the Alderney certification to offer solutions to e-gaming brands in Alderney, Guernsey and Jersey, where it has individual data centre facilities.
The respected independent research organisation Juniper Research has issued a new study on daily fantasy sports which predicts that consumer spend will double from $2.6 billion in 2016 to $5.3 billion by 2021, with market leaders DraftKings and FanDuel (currently in merger mode) serving 90 percent of consumers. The study found that North America continues …
Singapore Police flexed their muscle with their first successful, and one of the largest, operations carried out under the country’s newly adopted Organized Criminal Group Act. The simultaneous remote gambling raids netted 33 suspects across thirty physical locations, S$1.3 million in cash, technical hardware and documentation which included betting records. In further action related to …