Paddy Power plc announced Tuesday that it is introducing the first product to offer real money sports betting on Facebook. The product will be beta launched in the next few weeks. The in-house developed product, Paddy Power In-Play!, is being trialled as a Facebook app for desktop customers in the United Kingdom, which Facebook has …
The European online gambling group Bwin.Party Digital Entertainment has issued a pre-close trading update highlighting its ambitions to: * Continue cost-cutting in order to achieve Euro 70 million in savings by thethe end of 2013 * Pursuing New Jersey online gambling licensing with a November launch in mind * The continuation of its focus shift …
The publication AM New York reports that nine men were arrested in Manhattan Tuesday on internet sportsbetting, drugs and loan sharking charges. Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance Jr. and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly revealed that the takedown of nine reputed Bonanno crime family members who allegedly ran the gamut of illegal activities, including the illegal …
Fixed odds supplier 49’s Limited has announced that David Purvis has succeeded Richard Carter as its new Chief Executive Officer. Purvis, who has enjoyed a long and successful career in the gambling industry took up his new CEO role at the end of June following Carter’s retirement. The Company supplies a portfolio of fixed odds …
French operator Pari Mutuel Urbain (PMU) reported strong international development and online results partially offsetting a decline in the depressed French market. Key performance indicators include: – Slight growth in total stakes of 0.2 percent to Euro 5.3 billion – Growth in gross gaming of 0.8 percent – Horse racing stakes down by 0.6 percent …
Craig Mucklow (39) has been appointed as VP Trading Services at Las Vegas-based i-gaming odds provider Don Best Sports. Mucklow joins Don Best Sports from a relatively short stint at Betfair where he was appointed Director of Trading in charge of a Dublin-based trading team just last year. Previous positions include Head of Sports Trading …
Jerry Markling, the Nevada State Gaming Control Board’s enforcement division chief, has announced his retirement effective end of August 2013. Markling has served over 22 years with the Gaming Control Board and spent 8 years of those as enforcement division chief. Having served a total of 43 years in Government service, Markling said he was …
Virtual sports betting provider Inspired Gaming Group (IGG) has made the Sunday Times league table of Britain’s private firms with fastest growing overseas sales. The company is listed 34th on The Sunday Times HSBC International Track 200, an independently researched gauge compiled by Fast Track using annual reports filed at UK Companies House. IGG said …
Long standing investor and major shareholder Softbank shed its last tranche of a 10.6 percent holding in Betfair to Deutsche Bank. The Japanese technology firm became Betfair’s biggest shareholder in April 2006 when it acquired a 23 percent stake in the betting exchange at GBP 13.20 per share effectively valuing the firm at GBP 1.5 …
Teddy Mitchell (58), and son Dryden Mitchell (32), indicted in September 2012 on numerous charges that included Federal gambling and money laundering charges , entered into a plea agreement in a U.S. District Court this week. Mitchell was accused of running a “large-scale” gambling operation from his home in Oklahoma City offering “high stakes” poker …
The British interactive television gambling operator NetPlayTV has issued a Q2-2013 trading update, reporting that strong marketing activity has boosted key performance indicators on a year-on-year comparison as follows: • 19 percent increase in new depositing casino players to 14,906 (Q2 2012: 12,515) • 25 percent increase in quarterly active depositing casino players to 28,261 …
Today (Tuesday) could be an important landmark for online gambling in Ireland as the Cabinet considers a law that will see the 1 percent land betting levy expanded to cover internet gambling activity. The cash-strapped Irish government hopes this will bring in an extra Euro 17 million later this year. The Irish Times reports that …
Australian online games developer Coober Games has launched a real-money online casino 8Coin.com on the Betable platform. 8Coin.com offers UK-based players traditional casino games that include slot machines, pull tabs, keno and scratch & win games. “Partnering with Betable has opened up an opportunity and experience we never thought we’d be able to offer our …
Brazilian gaming company SlotoPrime has released sixteen new game titles bringing to 48 the number of games in its portfolio across six rooms on the Facebook social platform. Titles include “Tales of Arabia”, “Wicked Hood” and “Pimp My Money” amongst others developed by Portable Slots, a company operating within Vesta Incubator located in Brazil. Portable …
Scientific Games’ recently launched Sciplay.Studio iLottery Game Portfolio will feature interactive game content and services from two additional Canadian third party developers, Karma Gaming and Telos International. Karma Gaming and Telos International join NEKTAN and Instant Win Gaming Ltd in content supply deals that already sees the Sciplay.Studio portfolio offer an exclusive library featuring the …
Amid the ups and downs of the drawn-out privatisation of OPAP, INTRALOT has announced the signing of a five-year IT contract with the Greek state-owned gambling monopoly today (Monday) which is sure to prove controversial in the context of the 33 percent stake consortium Emma Delta has recently acquired, due for completion by the end …
bwin.party digital entertainment has entered into an agreement that will see GeoComply provide the firm with its geolocation solutions in the U.S. market. Nevada Gaming Control Board-licenced Geocomply’s solution will run across all PC and mobile platforms on bwin.party US-facing properties. “We are thrilled to have won this tender and to be now working with …
NYX Interactive will integrate its NYX OGS and MOVE powered by NYX OGS products into Unibet’s online gaming suite following a deal signed this week. Unibet will initially take a number of HTML5 and Flash games content via NYX’s products with further games prepped for release on an ongoing basis. David Flynn, CEO of NYX …
Genesis Gaming debuted another two video slots this month titled Orc’s Battle and Maritime Maidens. Orc’s Battle is a game inspired by classic fantasy literature depicting primal giants on the battlefield. The game is a 50 line, 4×5 reel video slot with a ‘Locked Wild’ free spin feature. The animation depicts vibrant illustrations of the …
Live dealer provider Ezugi has partnered with Play’n GO that will see the inclusion of its slot games integrated into Ezugi’s HTML5 package. Play’n GO minigames serve as an in-game pop-up that appear within the same window to entice customers to continue playing while waiting for results to be announced or for a new table …
Moves in the United States towards legalising online gambling could significantly benefit the Antigua and Barbuda World Trade Organisation case against the USA, says Antigua’s legal representative Mark Mendel. Addressing local media that included the publication Carinarena over the weekend whilst participating in an Antiguan television show, Mendel discussed the long-running dispute with the Americans …
Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG) developer eGenesis has apparently identified the social real money gaming phenomenon as a business opportunity and is working on a new MMORPG offering titled Dragon’s Tale, according to a News10 report over the weekend. “The first thing that stuck me about online gambling today is that it’s a …
Andy Murray’s spectacular Wimbledon finals tennis win over Novak Djokovic on Sunday proved to be a costly affair for British bookies, who reportedly took a GBP 15 million drubbing from patriotic Brit punters who bet heavily at 11-8 on Murray. A spokeswoman for Ladbrokes said that the match had cost the company “a packet”. “Murray …
In an interview with the Australian publication Channel Nine Financial Review Sunday, pokie machine manufacturer Len Ainsworth said he is opposed to online gambling, despite it being seen by other industry execs as a major growth opportunity. The founder and chairman of poker machine manufacturer Ainsworth Game Technology described the emergence of online gambling as …