The popular Gibraltar-based online casino operator 32Red plc is to hire a professional media planning agency to better deploy its planned GBP 6 billion marketing budget for 2014. M.i. Media has been selected to replace in-house resources for the key role in the company’s marketing initiatives as it strives to maintain and extend its influence …
Full Tilt Poker, which recently augmented its poker-only site with a suite of online casino games from Leander Games, is to further diversify with the addition of sportsbetting facilities, parent company The Rational Group confirmed this week. 2015 is the current target date for the new venture, and the company is currently exploring partnership possibilities …
Following reportedly lengthy negotiations, Caesars Interactive Entertainment’s social gaming subsidiary Playtika is about to close an acquisition deal with social games developer Pacific Interactive, perhaps best known for its popular social game House of Fun. Founded in 2010, Playtika is believed to command a 15 percent market share in social gaming, and was itself acquired …
In the latest online gambling prevalence study conducted by independent researchers at the behest of the UK Gambling Commission, the numbers show that contrary to some claims of internet gambling soaring and becoming a social problem, the number of Brits using the internet and mobile devices to gamble has actually declined year-on-year by 2 percent. …
Nevada journo Jon Ralston was at Sheldon Adelson’s much hyped press conference this week, called to unveil the 39 mainly religious and conservative organisations supporting his drive to get online gambling banned via a revamped Wire Act. The publication Ralston Reports lists the organisations here: http://www.ralstonreports.com/blog/adelsons-anti-web-gaming-coalition-announces-list-backers#.UvxfEbBWEcM But, as Ralston notes, alliances with this sort of …
Fredrik Elmqvist’s Swedish online gambling games provider Yggdrasil Gaming has signed a licensing agreement with LeoVegas.com to supply the online and mobile casino operator with its entire 23-game lottery and casino games portfolio. The agreement includes regular releases of new game offerings in genres that embrace lottery and instant lotto products, slot, keno, mobile and …
The partnership between Seattle social games provider Big Fish Gaming and UK-licensed Betable appears to have expired with no sign of renewal, leading to the removal of the Big Fish Casino real-money app from Apple’s UK Store, according to a Gaming Intelligence report. Betable, a company that facilitates the operation of real-money social gaming in …
Peter Lord and Graeme White, reportedly two Australian-based directors of the Canbet online sports book, could be facing lawsuits as angry and frustrated punters try to recover their account balances, allegedly frozen for the past three months due to the company finding itself in financial difficulties. The UK-licensed sports book said earlier this year that …
Going into the fourth day of downtime after hackers disabled websites belonging to Sheldon Adelson’s Las Vegas Sands land gambling group, Associated Press reports that there are fears that customer credit card data may have been accessed in the hack . Nevada Gaming Control Board chairman A.G. Burnett told the news agency late Thursday that …
Swedish online gambling software provider Net Entertainment has posted its Q4-2013 and FY 2013 report, claiming that investments are now bearing fruit, and that revenues reached record levels. The company reports the following highlights: * Strongest fourth quarter yet as y-o-y revenues increased 24.5 percent to SEK 180.1 (144.7) million * Operating margin at 31 …
Former US payment processor Chad Elie, who was caught up and convicted in Department of Justice actions aimed at shutting down online gambling in the United States, took a further defeat this week when his action against lawyer Jeff Ifrah alleging bad legal advice was dismissed by U.S. District Judge James C. Mahan. Commenting on …
Jacksonville attorney Kelly Mathis, who was convicted last year as a key defendant in the $300 million Allied Veterans internet café gambling prosecution has been sentenced to 6 years in prison by a Seminole County Judge in Florida. Mathis has lodged notice of intention to appeal, and will remain free on bond. He contends that …
It looks as though internet gambling in New Jersey is starting to ramp up significantly, with January revenues coming in at $9.46 million – a 28 percent rise over December, the first full month that state residents and visitors could gamble online. On the land side, Atlantic City casinos took another knock, with revenues down …
The Administrative Court of Wiesbaden has made an interim ruling ordering the Hesse Ministry of Interior and Sport to finalise the 20 German sports betting licence awards within three months. In May 2013, Hessian officials reportedly invited just 10 of the 149 applicants to participate in preliminary proceedings . In legal action led by BetVictor, …
Française des Jeux (FDJ) will accelerate its digital presence in an expansion to its existing relationship with social networking site Facebook. FDJ said the success of its “My Million” launch campaign on Facebook which reached 13.4 million French citizens in less than 24 hours had prompted it to strengthen its collaboration with Facebook. “These promising …
B2B gaming software developer GameAccount Network plc has entered into a partnership with Foxwoods Resort Casino for the launch of what it terms the “first ever Simulated Gaming online casino experience in the United States.” Under the terms of the deal, GameAccount Network will provide global users the ability to experience Foxwoods Resort Casino from …
Athens prosecutor Ioannis Sevis is reportedly investigating the sale of the Greek State’s 33 percent stake in OPAP which was bought by the Czech-led private equity consortium Emma Delta for Euro 652 million in August last year . According to a Financial Times report, the investigation was launched just weeks after Emma Delta completed its …
Dedsert Ltd-owned sportsbook BetBright has been named as the new sponsor of the Kempton Park Chase, formerly known as The Racing Post Chase. Now-named The BetBright Chase, the event is a prominent handicap feature on the National Hunt calendar and will run on Saturday 22 February. BetBright said it will additionally be sponsoring two other …
Amaya Gaming Group has completed the previously announced sale of its WagerLogic Malta Holdings Ltd subsidiary to Goldstar Acquisition co Inc. for $70 million, less a closing working capital adjustment of $7.5 million. The deal was satisfied through a cash consideration of $52.5 million and a vendor take-back of a promissory note of $10 million, …
Both mainstream and industry media are currently carrying reports of a hack on the Las Vegas Sands websites owned by land gambling billionaire Sheldon Adelson. Although Adelson is best known in the online gambling industry for his vehemently anti-internet gambling views and actions, it is understood that the assaults on his websites are motivated by …
Rumours at the recent ICE show in London that a contractual dispute was causing bad blood between online gambling software provider BetSoft and white label supplier EveryMatrix resulted in at least one anxious operator calling a meeting with executive representatives of both companies last Thursday, who allegedly gave an assurance that gaming services would not …
The Lithuanian Government has submitted a draft gambling law to the European Commission designed to clarify current Gambling Law IX-325 by addressing which entities are permitted to provide services in the market and through what channels. The draft law covers licencing requirements, advertising restrictions, remote gambling conditions and licencing procedures, commercial poker, betting and totalizators, …
Credentials management company Jumio will provide its Netverify customer solution to Rank Group’s Mecca and Grosvenor Casino sites. The integration of the solution will negate the need to provide email or faxed ID documents, but will rather enable customers to scan their passport or driving licence via their device camera. Commenting on the deal, Rank …
Clarion Gaming reports a 7 percent increase in attendance at ICE 2014 which was held in London last week. Initial figures indicate a total of 23 891 gaming industry professionals attending ICE, widely hailed as one of the most important calendar events in the industry. Kate Chambers, Portfolio Director for ICE paid tribute to the …