Paddy Power coped best with the extra website traffic during Gold Cup day at Cheltenham last week, according to Capacitas, a company that specialises in preventing websites from crashing. As reported in iGaming Business, Capacitas said that the conversion rate of a website degrades when page load time exceeds two seconds. Research from Capacitas showed that around the time of the …

Paysafe Group has partnered with Emerchants Ltd to deliver white-labelled pay-out card solutions to gaming operators across Europe. Emerchants, which counts gaming operators in Australia such as Ladbrokes, William Hill and Sportsbet among its clients, offers an innovative prepaid payment technology platform with processing and programme management services. Paysafe is a Principal Member of MasterCard® and authorised by the UK …

After Ciaran O’Brien collected 16.5 points last week at Cheltenham, all eyes will be on the next special guest in the Tipster Challenge at Haydock. Trying to maintain, or even extend the Guest’s lead, will be Damien Fearn of Tipstrr Ltd. Damien used to build custom algorithmic models to provide useful and profitable advice to clients and betting syndicates. Now …

Home-field Advantage: Germany v England The current world champions are favoured in this match. Tipster Notorious points to Germany’s incredible endurance on the field, never winding down in a match – even if they are winning. Notorious predicts that the home team will win by 2 goals in this particular match up. Even with this particular tipster’s confidence, Coral (Notorious’ selected bookmaker) is …

Inspired has successfully integrated its Virgo™ Remote Gaming Server (RGS) into OpenBet’s gaming platform. This integration allows for the supply of Inspired’s omni-channel content to OpenBet’s online and mobile customers, including Paddy Power and Ladbrokes, via Inspired’s Virgo™ RGS. OpenBet takes over a billion sports bets annually, and is renowned for its performance and scalability. Inspired has been supplying its leading …

Sports Betting Academy is proud to announce Sportcast as a training partner. Sportcast have been making waves in the world of sports betting through combining cutting edge technology and innovative data science with real sports expertise to deliver a competitive edge. Sportcast have lent an experienced team of PhD statisticians, developers and odds compilers to support the Sports Betting Academy course, …

GVC Holdings PLC is pleased to announce the appointment of Liron Snir to the newly created role of Chief Product Officer. Liron, the former Vice President of Product and Strategy of Playtech PLC, is recognised as one of the foremost product and technology experts in the online gaming industry over the last sixteen years. As Vice President of Customer Relations for over …

This year’s Betting on Football Conference, being held on 21st April, has relocated to Stamford Bridge, the home of Premier League Champions Chelsea FC. Two years after #bofcon was launched at Stamford Bridge, the dedicated betting conference will now return to the football ground, setting up home in the Harris, Drake and Vialli suites. The one day conference was originally planned …

Home-field Advantage: Swansea City v Aston Villa KubanaBob is an experienced Premiere League tipster, having been featured here on SBC three times. This time he’s pitching Swansea to win at 67/100 (1.67) odds with Bet365. He’s very confident with this one, pointing back to Swansea’s persistent performance against Bournemouth. They lost that match, but were consistently fighting to get back …

OpenBet has partnered with The British Columbia Lottery Corporation (BCLC) to launch Sports Pools on PlayNow.com, British Columbia’s gambling website. OpenBet has worked closely with BCLC since they launched their initial online gaming offering in June 2010, when it delivered Canada’s first online casino on OpenBet’s leading platform and centralised account (Player Account Management). Since then, OpenBet and BCLC have continued …