The Leicester City Football Club announced a new platinum partnership with online betting company 666Bet Tuesday, with the sports betting operator becoming the Foxes’ Official Betting Partner and exclusive European Betting Partner for the 2014/15 season. Ian Flanagan, commercial director for Leicester City Football Club, said: “Our partnership with 666Bet brings together a new player …
Real Sports Global has launched 5050Streak, a social version of its innovative casino game 5050Sports, featuring international sports personalities and exclusively-licensed archive broadcast footage, with publisher Trinity Mirror. The agreement sees 5050Streak, where Facebook players aim to win 5050Coins, become available to online (with mobile to follow) readers of Mirror.co.uk. The social platform contains classic …
Investors in the UK online and land gambling group Ladbrokes are unlikely to be pleased with the company’s H1-2014 numbers released Tuesday, which show that despite a change in software provider the company’s digital profits plunged 72 percent to just GBP 3 million. Digital provides just 4.4 percent of Ladbroke’s operating profits, compared with rival …
Social gaming operations through Caesars Entertainment subsidiary Caesars Interactive Entertainment delivered on of the few bright spots in the parent group’s convoluted and acronym-ridden half-year results posted this week, with social and mobile gaming driving the 95.4 percent growth in CIE revenues to $144.6 million. In the second quarter ended June 30, CIE’s Playtika subsidiary …
The National Council on Problem Gambling has teamed up with Gambling Integrity Services to help online gambling operators licensed in the USA to comply with NCPG’s Internet Responsible Gambling Standards. The NCPG will contract with Gambling Integrity Services (GIS) to perform independent evaluation, including mystery shopping by trained testers, of the sites that apply for …
NYX Gaming Group’s expansion into international regulated markets continued with the announcement Tuesday that the group has been granted a Gibraltar B2B licence to provide remote gambling services. Already claiming the e-gaming industry’s widest distribution network, NYX will now be able to offer its proprietary NextGen Gaming slots and third party partner content to fellow …
The major Isle of Man-based online gambling software provider Microgaming has created a tertiary education bursary scheme designed to support promising Isle of Man students in furthering their education in cases where they may be precluded by financial circumstance from attending or continuing to study at university. The award will see Microgaming fund accommodation and …
One of the biggest data breaches in online gambling history – the theft of 649,000 player details from online gambling group Paddy Power (see previous reports) – has been examined in detail by the Bloomberg business news service, which reveals: * In 2010 (when the theft is believed to have occurred) Paddy Power technicians detected …
The relatively new Swedish online gambling games developer Thunderkick has launched a new 3d slot titled Fruit Warp, which is now live on internet casinos like Unibet, Casumo, Betsson, BetSafe, Vera&John and MrGreen. The game runs smoothly and features original symbols to carry the fruity theme. Check it out here:
Sports betting exchange Matchbook.com has announced a one year official betting partner deal with the newly promoted UK football championship side Brentford FC. The agreement includes prominent display of the Matchbook logo on players’ strip in the 2014-2015 season, along with stadium advertising space at the club’s home, Griffin Park near London. Mark Brosnan, chief …
Finnish i-gaming platform provider Finnplay has announced the launch of daily fantasy sports operator FantasyBet on the company’s Billfold platform to run its fantasy gaming engine. FantasyBet is targeting the high growth in live fantasy sports games across Europe in time for the new English Premiership football season. Management of the FantasyBet enterprise says the …
Tabcorp chief executive David Attenborough is looking for a way around the ban on internet and mobile in-play betting in Australia, he revealed in media interviews following the release of the company’s financial results last week (see previous reports). Punters in Australia can bet on the outcome of an event after it has begun, but …
South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham and Utah Representative Jason Chaffetz could be in for a disappointment if they continue to push their federal attempt to ban internet gambling with the Restoration of America’s Wire Act, according to an estimate published on the Congressional monitoring site Govtrack.us. Vegas Inc. reports that federal legislators are currently on …
Three state lotteries executives, Jeffrey R. Anderson, director of the Idaho Lottery; Stephen Martino, director of the Maryland Lottery and Gaming Control Agency; and Charles McIntyre, executive director of the New Hampshire Lottery, have presented the argument for states’ rights on the issue of online gambling. Writing in the Washington state publication The Intelligencer over …
The Toronto-listed online gambling company Intertain Group will be talking about investment in online gambling at the Canaccord Genuity 34th Annual Growth Conference in Boston at 2.30pm on August 13. John FitzGerald, president and CEO, and Keith Laslop, CFO, will present their view of the business opportunities following Intertain’s recent acquisition of Mandalay Media. And …
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that police action in Runnymede, Camden County uncovered a long established illegal gambling parlour titled the Runnymede Social Club in a back room off a health and fitness gym. The enterprise offered traditional sports betting and poker action, along with online wagering on a website branded 365sportsbetting.com, police said in revealing …
With a Monday deadline for signature looming (see previous reports), New Jersey governor Chris Christie finally made up his mind Friday to impose his absolute veto on a bill that would have opened up sports betting in New Jersey despite the federal limitations of the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act. In exercising his right …
The UK Gambling Commission has launched a new online gambling consultation seeking opinions from the public and the industry on the levels and nature of social responsibility protections that internet and mobile gambling operators should provide. Given the often controversial high profile of gambling in recent times as a result of the FOBT furore and …
GameAccount Network plc, a developer and b2b supplier of gaming software and online gaming content, has confirmed that since January this year it has had a licensing agreement with Konami Gaming to use the land game supplier’s content on its clients’ online sites. The first game, China Shores, goes live this week, and will be …
New Jersey governor Chris Christie continues to keep everyone guessing on whether he will sign an intrastate sports betting law overwhelmingly approved by the state legislature some weeks back. The contentious bill, crafted by Sen. Ray Lesniak after the US Supreme Court declined to hear the state’s case on earlier legislation and litigation (see previous …
Online sportsbetting site 666Bet has signed as shirt sponsor for the 2014-2015 season with Leyton Orient a League One professional football club founded in 1881 in the London Borough of Waltham Forest, England. Orient commercial manager Tom Jeffes said: “We’re delighted to welcome 666Bet as our main shirt sponsor in what is a fantastic deal …
The two-day inaugural Summit of iGaming, Malta expo and conference is set to commence October 31 on the Mediterranean island which has become a key location in the online gambling industry. Organisers are expecting over 500 delegates to fly in for the event, and report a healthy response from software and other providers keen to …
A Canadian resident, Jason Ferguson, has identified himself as the man who ended up with the details of over 650,000 Paddy Power players, allegedly obtained through a security breach back in 2010. The betting company has only recently publicly acknowledged the breach following its launch of legal proceedings in Canada (see previous reports). Ferguson is …
The online gambling industry has yet another national government blacklist to keep in mind following the publication by Latvia this week of its list of unlicensed operators who could find themselves ISP-blocked in the Baltic state. The list is the work of the new Latvia Lotteries and Gambling Supervision Inspectorate and includes top online gambling …