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Tailorbet awarded Isle of Man network licence

21 Feb 2013

Tailorbet has been granted a Network Services Licence by the Isle of Man Gambling Supervisory Commission (GSC). The company’s peer to peer network solution provides an innovative platform for sportsbooks which enables users to customise and create a wide variety of bet types on a range of sports. The GSC introduced the Network Services licence …

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Online revenues up at Ladbrokes

21 Feb 2013

The online and land gambling group Ladbrokes plc has turned in a positive report for 2012, thanks mainly to strong growth in its retail operations. Although digital revenues increased, operating profit in the division took a big 39.3 percent hit, declining y-o-y from GBP 52.4 million to GBP 31.8 million. Highlights of the report for …

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Hippodrome Online Casino goes live

20 Feb 2013

The Leicester Square-situated and newly revamped Hippodrome Casino has gone live at hippodromeonline.com. Built by Microgaming and operated by Betway Group, the site features a Hippodrome Casino app enabling gamers to log on to their accounts using a range of portable devices. Online and on-site poker will be provided by PokerStars, who entered into a …

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32Red takes on Microgaming live dealer solution

20 Feb 2013

Microgaming’s new live studio featuring the iconic Playboy brand has a new taker by way of respected online casino 32 Red. 32Red online players can look forward to roulette, blackjack and baccarat games all dealt by a Playboy bunny croupier in an exclusive 32Red live dealer room. A 32Red spokesperson said: “Live casino games have …

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PMU partners with Spanish horserace track

20 Feb 2013

The second biggest horserace course in Spain Hipódromo de San Sebastián will offer online betting as a result of a partnership agreement between Pari Mutuel Urbain (PMU) and la sociedad Hipódromos y Apuestas de Euskadi (HAHE), an association PMU has worked closely with over the past seven years. PMU also reached a partnership agreement with …

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World Match delivers WM Cloud Gaming Centre

20 Feb 2013

Maltese software developer World Match has debuted its WM Cloud Gaming Centre providing licensees a “complete toolkit” to successfully manage their business. World Match says the initiative is cost effective, open for the integration of third party gaming products at no additional cost and especially suits entrepreneurs looking to enter the online gaming industry. The …

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Cherry on top

20 Feb 2013

Cherry reported on its online gaming and restaurant casino division results for the fourth quarter and full year period. Financial Highlights for the fourth quarter include: –   Group turnover amounting to SEK 177.1 million (Q4/2011: SEK 116.5 million). –   EBIT of SEK 7.5 million (Q4/2011: SEK 27.1 million). –   Adjusted items re reassessment of the …

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WMS in B2B agreement with Sky

20 Feb 2013

WMS Industries subsidiary Williams Interactive LLC has inked an online content licensing agreement with Sky Betting & Gaming which will provide SkyVegas.com with access to WMS’ online library of web-based slot games and mobile gaming platforms. Sky Betting & Gaming will feature the full catalogue of WMS’ digital slot content, including THE WIZARD OF OZ™, …

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ProGaming in South East Asia deal

20 Feb 2013

Israeli-based multiplayer online gaming platform provider ProGaming Platforms Inc. entered into a joint venture with Zenetek LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of California-based Anything Technologies Media, this week. In an initial twelve month deal, the JV seeks to market ProGaming’s online gaming services in the South East Asian market where Zenetek will be granted exclusive …

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Cyprus government introduces online gambling blacklist

20 Feb 2013

The Cyprus government has ramped up its enforcement measures against online gambling, giving teeth to its parliamentary decision last year to outlaw online gambling from all but the Greek state monopoly OPAP. The Mediterranean island’s National Betting Authority has compiled a blacklist of around 270 illegal online gambling sites, directing the country’s Internet Service Providers …

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Atlantic City’s newest land casino in financial straits

20 Feb 2013

Less than a year ago New Jersey gambling industry observers were hoping that the launch of the new Revel land casino would revitalise Atlantic City’s ailing land gambling industry, but this week the operation announced that it has applied for Chapter 11 bankruptcy late next (March) month. The voluntary move is designed to wipe away …

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New Jersey Governor won’ t delay signing amended online gambling bill

20 Feb 2013

New Jersey governor Chris Christie told a public gathering in Lavallette Tuesday that he would not hesitate to sign the intrastate online gambling legalisation bill currently being amended to meet his demands… if those demands are met. Earlier this month Christie gave a qualified veto on the bill, specifying provisions he wanted changed before he …

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Check your credit card statements

19 Feb 2013

If you attended the ICE show earlier this month, and used your plastic, be sure to check your credit card statements According to a report Monday on the Gambling911 information website, “dozens” of industry people attending the ICE conference in London have reported that they have been compromised “via smartphone usage at the event itself.” …

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Californian city imposes moratorium on internet gambling cafes

19 Feb 2013

Hayward City, the sixth largest municipality in the San Francisco Bay area, is taking a close look at online gambling in internet cafes, and intends to impose a 45-day moratorium on such enterprises whilst it does so. News of the move has already seen one company in the area decide to permanently shutter its doors, …

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Sheriff Gaming on a roll – This time with Edict

18 Feb 2013

Sheriff Gaming continues to rack up the deals, its latest a content supply agreement with gaming platform developer Edict eGaming. The company will provide Edict eGaming with its portfolio of 3D slot games and scratchcards enabling its white label customer’s access to popular Sheriff Gaming titles in multi-currency and language options. Eric Roskamp at Sheriff …

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IGG set for virtual sports launch in Italy

18 Feb 2013

Inspired Gaming Group (IGG) said it welcomed the start of the virtual sports homologation process in Italy which was announced by the Italian gaming authority AAMS earlier this month, an event it says the company has prepared for over the last three years. IGG said it has already clinched deals with major Italian operators SNAI, …

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Donaco appoints managing director

18 Feb 2013

Interactive media and gambling application firm Donaco International Limited, formerly Two Way Limited prior to its acquisition by Donaco Singapore Party Limited last year, has appointed Keong Yew ‘Joey’ Lim to fill the position of managing director. Lim, a computer sciences graduate of Queen Mary and Westfield College at the University of London, is the …

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Mr Green recruits marketing exec

18 Feb 2013

Swedish-founded online casino Mr Green has appointed Henrik Svensson in the role chief marketing officer from February 1, 2013. Svensson joins Mr Green from a position of chief executive officer and chief marketing officer at Nordic Gaming Group (NGG) recently integrated into the Betsson Group following its acquisition.  Prior to NGG, he worked for Betway.com …

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More licence awards from Schleswig Holstein

18 Feb 2013

Swedish gaming firm Unibet has announced it is the latest recipient of a Schleswig-Holstein online casino licence, an interesting development considering the current political situation concerning gaming and the State’s intention of re-joining the German State Treaty on Gaming . Other awards made in the sports betting licence category include Cash-Line Sportwetten GmBH and Trading …

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Betsson take on Sheriff Games

18 Feb 2013

Betsson will be the next Quickfire, powered by Microgaming, licensee to integrate Sheriff Gaming 3D online slot games in to its game portfolio. Rudi Thomassen, casino director at Betsson said, “We quickly identified Sheriff Gaming as one of the leading developers of online games, that are not only unique within the market but that also …

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Online wagering blamed for Taiwan lottery losses

18 Feb 2013

Taiwan punters using foreign websites to gamble were blamed by the Taipei Fubon Bank this week for lottery losses of NT$8.3 billion (US$279.7 million) accumulated over the past five years. The publication Focus Taiwan reports that the losses were incurred by the bank in its issues of domestic sports lottery tickets, which were heavily impacted …

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Newspaper identifies top European online gambling operators

17 Feb 2013

The UK newspaper The Independent published an interesting article over the weekend identifying pioneering online gambling operators in Europe, although surprisingly it did not include major player Bwin.Party Digital Entertainment and CEO Norbert Teufelberger. The newspaper reported that the executives it named had all made fortunes as pioneering online gambling entrepreneurs, most of whom were …

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GSA work on online gambling standards progressing

17 Feb 2013

A familiar name in the online gambling industry – former Malta regulator Mario Galea – surfaced recently in articles about the Gaming Standards Association, for which his company Random consults. Galea is part of a move to create pragmatic online gambling standards through which industry companies can reduce R&D costs, bring more inter-operability to the …

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US online gambling will be welcomed, says research firm

17 Feb 2013

While the stocks of gaming companies have been on the rise based in part on the news that New Jersey is likely soon to approve a multi-year trial period for online gambling, a new nationwide survey by AlixPartners, a business advisory firm, finds that 35 percent of active gamblers say they would wager online if …

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