Weike Gaming Technology, a Singapore-based land casino game provider, has inked a deal with the open gaming platform provider ONEworks that will see some of its slot products translate to the online environment. ONEworks, which has technology and programming operations in Taiwan, develops sportsbook software services to gaming companies, and said in a statement confirming …
Sheldon Adelson’s Restoration of America’s Wire Act has the potential to create an unintended but spectacular backfire for Nevada’s $3.9 billion mobile sports betting business, according to an article in the respected Las Vegas Revue Journal this week. The publication points out that the proposed law already has the potential to end currently legalised internet …
New York state U.S. Attorney Richard Hartunian announced Wednesday that about $6 million in forfeited funds, taken from defendants in a major online gambling case, will be allocated to law enforcement agencies in the Albany and Saratoga Counties. Speaking to TWC News, Albany County Sheriff Craig Apple said: “The name of the game is, you …
The digital division of Ladbrokes welcomed a new chief this week when the internal promotion of former mobile head Dipen Nagda was announced. Nagda, a graduate of the University of Warwick who had impressive management experience with telecommunications giants 3, T-Mobile and Vodaphone prior to joining Ladbrokes, recently played a leading role in restructuring Ladbrokes’ …
The board of directors of Cherry AB has confirmed Frederik Burvall in the chief executive post and as president of the company with immediate effect. The former CFO, who joined Cherry nine years ago, was appointed acting CEO in December last year . Chairman of the board, Rolf Åkerlind, said in a statement: ”Fredrik Burvall …
Digital operations continued to make a strong contribution to the performance of the online and land gambling group Rank plc in the first five months of 2015, the company said in an interim management statement Thursday. A strong performance from live casino and increases in both customers and spend per visit led to a 55 …
The Danish Online Gambling Association (DOGA) has published the second instalment of a study it commissioned from MyResearch. The organisation released the results of the first part of the study in March 2015 focusing on the size of the black market in Denmark with an emphasis on online sports betting (see previous report). The second …
Fantasy eSports provider AlphaDraft recently emerged from a seed financing round with $ 4.2 million in funds raised from investors Melo7Tech, Metaphorphic and none other than former NBA commissioner David Stern among others. AlphaDraft offers fantasy e-Sports line-up’s on professional video gaming team sports rather than the usual actual real person live-sports covered by companies …
Voice biometrics specialist SpeechPro has partnered with biometric security firm FaceBanx in the development of enhanced face and voice recognition solutions for telecomm and banking industry customers. Facebanx will now offer SpeechPro’s proprietary “VoiceKey.OnePass” technology through its mobile, PC and tablet platform solution. The combined solution gives consumers the ability to log into mobile apps …
Åland-based gaming company Paf reported profit of Euro 17.2 million at the end of its 2014 financial year, down 45 percent compared to 2013. “Compared with the previous two financial years, 2014 was a weaker year. Profits were negatively affected by targeted major investments in areas such as marketing and by external factors such as …
Pennlive reports the release of a new poll commissioned by lobbyists and public relations firm The Bravo Group which tests the water on Pennsylvania voter opinions on legalising state specific online gambling. The results of this poll are vastly different from those of the auto-phone poll conducted by Republican Party-leaning Harper Polling earlier this month. …
A new promotional concept dubbed Super Free Spins is set for launch by Yggdrasil Gaming. The feature will launch exclusively with Vera&John online casino before being made more widely available in June. Super Free Spins allows operators to hand out an infinite number of free spins to different player segments with variable stop criteria like …
Seattle-based online sports betting platform provider Unikrn launched its “Unikrn Arena” to the UK market today. Unikrn Arena offers wagering on global sporting tournaments, via its partnership with Tabcorp and Luxbet, access to live viewing and live discussions. Unikrn Arena also offers wagering on the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive game (CSGO), an online tactical first-person shooter …
NYX Gaming Group has acquired Rome-based online and mobile software supplier Game360, allowing it to increase its geographic presence to the Italian market. Game360 designs, develops, markets and distributes online gaming content with a focus on native and html5 mobile formats and sports betting software solutions to over a dozen leading operators in the Italian …
The Italian news agency AGI reports that 50 individuals have been arrested by police this week following match fixing investigations under “Operation Dirty Soccer”. The police are investigating Italy’s Pro and D League football championships in a probe that involves 70 suspects and at least 30 clubs. Arrest warrants were issued by the Anti-Mafia District …
Aussie marketing publications are currently reporting an apparent snafu that saw Ladbrokes betting adverts appearing on a children’s homework website. The reports claim that two right hand ads appeared on the Coolmath-Games.com site, which helps schoolchildren learn about numbers, logic and strategy. Exactly who was at fault for placing the adverts has yet to be …
A $92 million Vietnamese online gambling ring busted in 2013 was back in the headlines this week when a court in Ho Chi Minh City sentenced 52 people to imprisonment and gave seven others suspended sentences. All were accused of taking part in illegal online gambling activity through the Philippines-based M88, which prosecutors characterised as …
Lawmakers in Pennsylvania and Kansas are making sure that their states are not left behind in the rise of Daily Fantasy Sports, introducing legalisation bills in their respective legislatures. In Pennsylvania, state Rep. George Dunbar has launched House Bill 1197 proposing the legalisation of DFS in all state-licensed land casinos. The bill has been allocated …
Online gambling software provider RealTime Gaming has released a new version of its online blackjack titled Suit ‘Em Up Blackjack, a standard blackjack game with a side-bet twist in which players can win up to 60:1 payouts wagering on the suit of the first two cards dealt. The game has been launched simultaneously on instant-play, …
Britain’s Gambling Commission has issued supplementary information on gambling participation over the period 2008 to 2014, revealing that UK online gambling participation increased by an average of 8.3 percent per annum over the period…an aggregate increase over the five years of 50 percent. In 2008 the online participation percentage was recorded as 9.7 percent, whilst …
The Hong Kong-based Chinese online lottery operator 500.com felt the pain of the Chinese government’s suspension of online ticket sales activity in its last quarter, but enjoyed increases in sales and revenue. Despite this, the company posted a net loss of RMB 52 million in its Q1-2015, blaming share-based compensation expenses and a RMB 30 …
The prolific Swedish online games developer Quickspin has published a preview of its latest online slot Hidden Valley which is due for release later this week. The theme is based on the utopian story of Shangri-La, and features two Tibetan travellers who have found the secret entrance to a lush valley untouched by time and …
German Bundesliga professional football club VFL Wolfsburg has extended its existing sponsorship partnership with MAXCAT Vertriebs GmbH-owned online sports betting operator X-TiP for another three years until the end of the 2017/18 season. Under the terms of the original agreement, X-TiP will continue as “Champions Partner” of the women’s team, receive branding and marketing opportunities …
Manchester-based app developer Degree 53 has been awarded a remote operating licence by the Gambling Commission for the design and build of gambling software in the UK market. “Since we were born out of the gambling industry, it is an important market for us,” Andrew Daniels, managing director of Degree 53 said. “With the topic …