UK football club Aston Villa has announced that it has signed online gambling groups Betfair and Bet365 as official partners of the club, giving both companies co-exclusive rights in the betting category. Both will have the right to be associated with Aston Villa and activate the partnerships globally, and both will appear on the club’s …
eSports platform developer, Unikrn, has announced closing a Series A funding round from a group of investors led by Jonathan Teo and Justin Caldbeck of Binary Capital for an additional $7 million. Unikrn said it will fund further development of its eSports Unikrn Arena platform which offers wagering on competitive video games matches and tournaments …
Australian Football League’s Essendon Football Club will end all commercial partnerships with gambling firms, saying it will direct its energy to nurturing existing commercial partnerships outside of the gambling industry. “This decision wasn’t made lightly, particularly with the revenue a wagering partner can deliver,” Xavier Campbell, chief executive of Essendon said. “We certainly respect the …
Play’n GO is responsible for Danske Spil’s new online casino platform at vegas.dk, its first platform agreement with a state-controlled gaming operator and WLA-member. Danske Spil launched the online casino to ensure further growth in the competitive Danish market by reaching new target groups it says cannot be reached by its existing casino. The State …
Award-winning journalist, broadcaster and former cricketer Simon Hughes, aka The Analyst, will be providing a detailed blog for online sportsbook Betway on this summer’s Ashes cricket tournament. Hughes, who works for Channel 5, the BBC and The Times, will delve deep under the surface, providing exclusive, expert analysis on all aspects of the series, which …
Tease publicity from the producers of the popular UK television soapie Coronation Street hints that compulsive online poker playing will feature in upcoming episodes. Central character Carla Connor discovers she has a flair for poker that could lead to a playing problem after she is successful in a pub poker game, and discovers the opportunities …
The advantages of anonymity offered by virtual currencies like Bitcoin, so often used in marketing tactics by online casinos using the cyber-currency, backfired expensively on the operator of the Primedice website last year. When a dishonest punter was able to exploit a software flaw on a simple dice game, it cost the operator over a …
Disgraced former Bodog Asia chief executive Robert Gustafsson, who already faces legal action on criminal and possibly civil allegations, could be in more trouble following the findings of the Philippines Court of Appeals late last month. The findings are centred on late 2013 raids by the Manila police (triggered by Gustafsson) on independent support service …
In a letter to the editor of Penn Live this week, the president of the Pennsylvania Horsemen’s Benevolent and Protective Association, Tim Shea, claims that the recent introduction of SB900, a Pennsylvania state Senate proposal to regulate and licence intrastate online gambling, constitutes a threat to his industry and the state’s land casino businesses. In …
The Sheldon Adelson-funded Coalition to Stop Internet Gambling has predictably issued a statement supporting the recent Senate re-introduction of the Adelson-inspired Restoration of America’s Wire Act by Senators Lindsey Graham and Mark Rubio . There is little that is new in the CSIG statement, which again tests the truth with its carefully crafted negative perspectives …
International Game Technology’s social gaming site DoubleDown Casino has launched the latest iteration of its Wheel of Fortune slot series, Wheel of Fortune Red, White and Blue simultaneously on desktop and mobile channels. In this fifth Wheel of Fortune theme to launch on the DoubleDown Casino app, players experience a 3-reel, 5-pay line configuration reminiscent …
Online gaming firm Mansion Group has been named official shirt sponsor for AFC Bournemouth ahead of the Club’s debut season in the English Premier League. The partnership, negotiated by sports marketing agency SportQuake, will also work closely on a range of commercial projects and mutually beneficial marketing activities to expand and increase awareness of both …
Spin Games LLC, in conjunction with KGM Gaming, have integrated their games to the Bally IGS in New Jersey for distribution of a wide range of content on the Golden Nuggett Casino online gaming website. “It is exciting to be expanding our offerings and make our mark as a proven content provider, as well as …
Following Portugal’s entry into force of new online gambling law this past weekend (see previous reports), its gambling authority Serviço de Regulação e Inspeção de Jogos (SRIJ) has published the necessary rules and requirements for the game and online wagering. The SRIJ invites all stakeholders to participate on proposed rules and regulations within the next …
Game developer Play’n GO has launched its latest online slot title “Royal Masquerade”. Players take a romantic trip to Venice of old in this five-reel, 10-payline slot, lighting up prize-winning combinations as they traverse along Venetian canals, meeting other masquerade ball guests while baroque music plays in the background. Royal Masquerade includes Play’n GO’s Win …
NetEnt has completed the integration of a portfolio of casino games within Danske Spil’s Vegas online casino platform following a web and mobile content supply deal inked in March (see previous report). “I am very pleased to announce that we have launched our games with Danske Spil, one of the leading WLA operators. I am …
Betclic Everest Group (BEG) has posted its first net profit since 2007, French publication Les Echos said in a brief report. Key performance indicators for the 2014 fiscal period include: – Net profit of Euro 1.1 million compared to a loss of Euro 8 million in fiscal 2013. – Group EBITDA rise of 53 percent …
William Hill has launched a Startup Accelerator in Shoreditch, London and Tel Aviv, Israel under its newly formed WH Labs. The initiative is a new partnership with technology entrepreneur Stuart Marks’ investment fund L Marks that aims to develop new betting technologies through the provision of funding, office space and mentorship. “The purpose of WHLabs …
The Swedish online gambling group Betsson AB announced Monday that it has acquired privately owned land and online gaming operator Europe-Bet based in the eastern European nation of Georgia. The deal gives Betsson access to the growing Georgian market, making it the second largest local online gaming operator in Georgia with close to 30 percent …
The Association of British Bookmakers has finally and permanently replaced former CEO Dirk Vennix, who departed for greener pastures in January this year (see previous report). The new man at the top is Malcolm George, a 1985 University of Warwick BA Honours graduate in economics and international studies with an impressive resume that includes management …
In an op-ed article in the Toronto Star this weekend, prominent Canadian legal expert Michael Geist warns on the dangers of allowing provinces like Quebec to introduce internet blocking measures unchallenged. Geist, who holds the Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law, questions the motives for …
Despite the closure of the Riviera Hotel and Casino at the beginning of the month, Nevada land gambling operations continued to prosper in May, with revenues rising 3.3 percent y-o-y to over a billion dollars, according to figures released by the Nevada Gaming Control Board. With the Paquino-Mayweather fight bringing crowds to Las Vegas, casinos …
The UK Gambling Commission has published industry statistics for the period 1 April 2010 to 30 September 2014, with the final twelve months of the period providing a useful comparison benchmark for the future as one of the last set of pre-point-of-consumption gambling statistics. Highlights from the report include: * Only 19 percent of UK …
Given its track record of opposition to online ticket sales in state lotteries, it is hardly surprising that the the Association for Convenience & Fuel Retailing Stores (NACS) was among the first last week to applaud the re-introduction to the US Senate of the Restoration of America’s Wire Act. The notoriously misinformed Senior Vice President …