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Betfair shuffles board

10 Mar 2014

Betfair Group Plc made several announcements of changes to its Board today (Monday). Peter Rigby has been appointed as a non-executive director and member of the Remuneration Committee effective April 1, 2014. Rigby was chief executive officer of FTSE 250 Informa plc until the end of 2013. He joined Informa in 1983 and served as …

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Plumbee adds tournaments to Mirrorball Slots app

10 Mar 2014

Social gaming firm Plumbee has introduced player tournaments to its Mirrorball Slots app on Facebook. A new lobby within the app allows players to play head-to-head tournaments after choosing one of four stakes and a final battle titled “Battle Royale” sees the top two players compete against each other for virtual cash prizes. A separate …

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Singapore Pools request EOI for sports betting system

10 Mar 2014

Singapore Pools, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Tote Board, has posted a request for expressions of interest (EOI) in terms of the replacement of its current sports betting system. The company currently offers Singapore Sweep, 4-D, horse race betting and Formula One and football match sports betting to its customers. Singapore Pools envisages the …

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Williams Interactive in game server deal with Ladbrokes

10 Mar 2014

Scientific Games Corporation subsidiary Williams Interactive will add a full portfolio of its interactive games to Ladbrokes.com, integrated through the Williams Interactive Remote Game Server, following a multi-year agreement announced today (Monday). The portfolio is expected to go live on mobile and PC platforms on Ladbrokes.com by the middle of 2014. Many of the titles …

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Betradar introduce Virtual Dog Racing product

10 Mar 2014

Sports and betting data provider Betradar has released a new virtual sports betting product, “Virtual Dog Racing”, which will debut on Ghanaian online bookmaker SafariBet. This new multi-platform product follows the successful release of its “Virtual Horse Classics” and coincides with the launch of Betradar’s new Remote Gaming Server. “Virtual Dog Racing” is available as …

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Betfred in three-year Grand National sponsorship

10 Mar 2014

UK gambling firm Betfred has become the official betting partner of The Crabbie’s Grand National Festival, due to be held in April 2014 at Aintree. Betfred will sponsor three races in the three-year deal – The Betfred Bowl Steeple Chase on Grand Opening Day, The Betfred Mobile Mildmay Novices’ Steeple Chase on Ladies Day and …

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Big Fish Casino launch latest social slot

10 Mar 2014

Casual games developer Big Fish has released its latest social slot titled “Fate’s Fortune”. The slot is themed on the mysteriousness of old New Orleans and features scatters, free spins, free tickets and free gold or chips. Fate’s Fortune allows for cross-platform play across iOS and Android devices, PC and Facebook.

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Malta sets up responsible gambling foundation

10 Mar 2014

Malta, as a prominent licensing and regulatory jurisdiction for online gambling operators, is to introduce a Responsible Gambling Foundation, the Times of Malta reports. Announcing the advent of the Foundation, Malta’s Parliamentary Secretary for Competitiveness and Economic Growth, Edward Zammit Lewis said that although problem gambling percentages were low, the issue is always one serious …

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Action group continues its assault on FOBTs

10 Mar 2014

Adrian Parkinson’s anti FOBT action group Campaign for Fair Gambling launched a new wave of negative publicity on Fixed Odds Betting Terminals last week, apparently unimpressed with industry moves to tighten restrictions on use following extensive media and political comment – much of it flowing from an earlier CFG release of statistics. The action group …

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Playtech founder plans a new IPO

10 Mar 2014

Teddy Sagi, the Israeli businessman and billionaire who founded Playtech, and recently sold off a chunk of his stock in that company has a new product lined up for a $100 million I.P.O. in London, according to a report in the Financial Times over the weekend. The entrepreneur’s latest project is a digital wallet branded …

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Diggin’ for gold with BetSoft

10 Mar 2014

In a sequel to its popular Gold Diggers 3D slot, online and mobile games developer BetSoft has launched More Gold Diggin’ in both desktop and mobile formats, the latter under its ToGo mobile brand. The latest iteration of the 5 reel, 25 line game reintroduces miners Jeb and Cletus as they work hard to find …

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Ladbrokes launches live dealer games from Playtech

8 Mar 2014

Online gambling technology and content provider Playtech, and its licensee the UK-based Ladbrokes online and land gambling group, have announced the launch of Live Games across both online casino desktop and mobile channels. The launch enables Ladbrokes to distribute all of Playtech’s Live Games, across all platforms. The mobile platform will feature both HTML5 and …

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Betbright to howl with the wolves

8 Mar 2014

The Warrington Wolves rugby Super League team in Britain has signed a one-year exclusive betting partner contract with Ireland’s Betbright online gambling group. The agreement requires Betbright to provide a Wolves-branded betting site for use by the team’s supporters, and the betting company will run a series of online promotional offers. The club will also …

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Ontario cops nab eleven in online gambling, drugs and weapons bust

8 Mar 2014

Following a two year investigation based on information from Canada’s Organised Crime Enforcement Bureau, provincial police in Ontario arrested eleven people and executed search warrants at five residential premises and four cars this week on 43 charges that include online gambling, drugs and illegal weapons. At a press conference in Toronto Friday provincial and local …

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New Jersey reports biggest online jackpot yet

8 Mar 2014

A Millstone, New Jersey online punter harvested the biggest jackpot yet in the state’s newly legalised online gambling market this week, hitting a $84,300 windfall on IGT’s “Monoloply Level Up Plus” slot. Reporting on the big win, the Star Ledger newspaper said that the man, who scored the big hit at the Borgata online casino, …

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Aussies like online gambling

7 Mar 2014

New research from the independent research firm Roy Morgan Gambling Monitor claims that in 2013 over 3.5 million Australians aged over 18 placed a bet of some kind… and 21 percent of them – or 758,000 people – did so online. This represents a substantial increase from three years ago, when online punters made up …

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No plans to revive Canbet

7 Mar 2014

The Canbet issue reported last month appears to be going from bad to worse, with new revelations flowing from extensive Australian media coverage, and one of the company’s Australian-based directors revealing that there are no plans to revive the company. Among the fresh allegations are claims that the betting company took wagers illegally on certain …

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Another record year for 32Red

7 Mar 2014

Gibraltar-based online gambling group 32Red.com has posted another strong annual performance for the fourth consecutive year, reporting record revenues and EBITDA. Highlights of the report include: * Total gross gaming revenue up 21 percent year-on-year at GBP 38.8 million; *  Online casino GGR up 19 percent y-o-y at GBP 35.6 million; *  Increase of 24 …

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Online gambler jailed for fraud

7 Mar 2014

Joanne Sharp, a 28-year-old parish clerk and mother of three in the UK with a penchant for online gambling, was jailed for 12 months this week for plundering the bank account of the council for which she worked. Prosecutors at the Peterborough Crown Court adduced evidence showing that Sharp helped herself to GBP 65,000 of …

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Municipal police bust online gambling centres in Malaysia

7 Mar 2014

Municipal police in Subang Jaya, a city in the Selangor province of Malaysia, raided six premises Thursday, seizing a total of 223 computers allegedly used for illegal online gambling activities. The coordinated raiding operation involved 53 officers and commenced mid-afternoon, and a police spokesman told the press that in four instances forcibly entry had to …

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North Dakota goes online with Scientific Games

7 Mar 2014

Scientific Games Corporation reported Thursday that it has inked a new contract with the North Dakota Lottery to implement and operate an online lottery system, and to provide a range of services and marketing support, along with its Sciplay interactive platform, which includes systems for internet subscriptions, player registration and player rewards programs. Scientific Games …

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William Hill Vegas takes NextGen slots on board

6 Mar 2014

NextGen Gaming, the Australian-based slots studio of NYX Gaming Group, has launched the first of a series of online slots slots titles –  Foxin’ Wins and Irish Eyes 2 – on William Hill’s Vegas tab in both HTML5 & Flash. The licensing agreement covers both mobile and desktop games from the NextGen Gaming and Aristocrat …

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UK financial institutions to back UK gambling restrictions

6 Mar 2014

Our readers will recall the very firm refusal by British ISP companies to cooperate in any attempt by the government to impose blocks on unlicensed internet gambling sites when its new point-of-consumption laws come into force at the end of the year. It appears from reports this week that the country’s financial institutions have no …

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Fortuna does well on internet betting

6 Mar 2014

Fortuna Entertainment Group, a Czech-facing online and land betting company has posted results better than analyst expectations of Euro 14.3 million, with net profit up 26.4 percent over the year to Euro 15.6 million, boosted significantly by online gambling operations. The Reuters news agency reports that total amounts staked were also better than expectations, rising …

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