Colossus Bets, home of the £10,000,000 Colossus and the world’s biggest football and sports jackpots, has announced that one player in its £2,000,000 correct score Pick 6 ‘Millionaire’ game is currently debating a £104,000 Fractional Cash-In offer from a £4 ticket, ahead of tonight’s Premier League fixture between Chelsea and Everton. If the player resists the Cash-In offer he needs …

Dirk Hansen, CEO of charity GamCare, has said that debate around problem gambling can be ‘overly complicated’. In an interview in February’s Betting Business interactive, Hansen said that the problem gambling charity treads carefully on the issue. When asked if he agreed with the contention that a rational debate on problem gambling is increasingly rare. Is this your experience, Hansen …

Platform provider FSB Technology (UK) Ltd has signed an agreement to supply Dafabet with a brand new sports betting site. The deal will see FSB trade a wide variety of sports, both pre-match and in-play, for the operator, including their market-leading horse racing product. The supplier’s business development director, Richard Thorp, said: “We’re delighted to have partnered with Dafabet, whose …

FansUnite, a social betting site that uses virtual currency, has rolled out its much-anticipated PickTracker software. This feature will enable users to analyse their betting history by allowing the user to view historical data and break down their past picks by sport, league, or bet-type and helping the user to look critically at their own betting patterns. The idea behind …

Swedish operator Unibet has been hit by the exchange rate fluctuations across Europe, meaning that the company’s Q4 results are much flatter than its performance suggested. As it is listed on the London Stock Exchange, Unibet declares in pounds sterling, with gross winning revenues of £78.0m for the quarter, only slightly up on the £74.4m generated in Q4-2013. However in …

Award-winning  iGaming software provider EveryMatrix  has announced an agreement with casino operator Yako Casino, as it continues to grow its client base and deliver better services tailored to the specific needs of its customers. Yako Casino brings its unique brand of humour and delight whilst delivering a personalised, tailor-made online casino offering to players around the world. Its main goal …

Oisin Lunny SBC’s Mobile Gaming Columnist and Senior Market Development Manager for mobile enterprise development firm OpenMarket, discusses how the ubiquitous smartphone is taking over the world. “A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!” In one famous Shakespearean scenario a horse was considered to be worth an entire kingdom, being the only thing that stood between King Richard III …

Bitcoin gaming platform provider Coingaming.io has become the first ever licensed Bitcoin-only gaming platform to offer Microgaming Quickfire games. Integration with Quickfire, powered by Microgaming, provides operators that use the Coingaming Bitcoin only casino platform with access to over 400 games, which include games like Avalon II, Thunderstruck II, and branded content titles such as, The Dark Knight, The Dark …

Online casino operator 888 has seen its share price jump by 18% after it revealed that William Hill has been considering making a move for the company. Shares in 888 rose 26.5 pence to 171.5 pence at the close of trading in London, valuing the company at about £608m. In a regulatory announcement, 888 told the stock market: “The Board …

Austrian bookmaker SKS365 Group has secured an incredible 1,001 land-based betting licences in Italy for its planetwin365 brand. The expanding Austrian bookmaker, which operates in Austria, Serbia, Romania and Belgium, will now turn independent Italian data transmission centres – so-called CTDs – into nationally licensed betting shops. SKS365 Group had been engaged in legal disputes with the Italian authorities over …