The bwin.party board have warned that 2013 year revenue would fall by up to 17 percent as senior management look to shrink its operations and concentrate on fewer markets and optimize it’s revenue streams. The igaming operator will now look to focus its operations in regulated markets and potential US regional markets, as the country looks to open legislation on …

B2B software, Sporting Solutions  the data analysis division of the Sporting Index Group, has entered into a major collaboration with the University of Salford to establish a Trading School of Excellence (TSE).  Individuals who successfully complete the TSE course will be awarded a Post-graduate Certificate in Sports Pricing and Trading – a higher education qualification between a Degree and a …

Weswit, suppliers of real-time data streaming solutions, has renewed its deal to supply its Lightstreamer real-time data streaming technology to Yazino, the specialist in in-sync, cross-platform social casino gaming. Lightstreamer is a massively scalable solution for pushing live data over WebSockets and other web protocols to up to millions of concurrent users. It has been deployed by Yazino since 2011 …

BetTech Gaming  the provider of  technology solutions to the gaming sector, has secured a partnership with Uganda-based land and online betting operator 256Bet. The South African company will provide its flagship BetTech Sports product to significantly upgrade and re-launch 256Bet.com alongside the introduction of a brand new mobile betting verticals for the African focused sports entertainment company. A further wide …

Irish igaming operator paddy power published its 2013 interim report,publishing  to shareholders and investors a  12% year-on-year rise in pre-tax profits to €77 million ($103.2 million). Paddy Power stated that strong online and mobile growth had been the key drivers in the companies strong performance for the first half of 2013. Net revenue generated through its digital platform had witnessed an …

TotelFootball providers of fantasy football  games with real money prizes and rewards have announced  an exclusive partnership to target the emerging Latin American igaming market with Ocho Gaming. Totelfootball will provide real money fantasy football games to Ocho Gaming Latin American brand JuegaOcho.com The partnership will see a branded JuegaOcho.com fantasy football games, where players will be allowed to select players …

Initial talks of a possible mergers between Swedish igaming sports betting solution provider Betting Promotion and igaming  software development firm Tain Technology. After a tough opening six months to 2013, that has seen Swedish Listed Betting Promotion see a YoY downturn in gaming revenues, the igaming supplier has initialized negotiations with Tain  Technology. A final decision on the merger will …

Casual and social games development studio Big Fish Games is set to undergo a major restructuring that may lead to company resourcing and operational cut backs. Reports from the  Seattle Times newspaper comment that the games developer may witness a loss of up to 140 jobs at their offices in the US and Europe. Further reports have stated that so …

AIM listed Media Corporation the owners of Intabet have announced that they will cease operation and investment of its Intabet sports betting platform. After a review into its sports betting platform and technology, directors at Media Corporation concluded that future investment in Intabet technologies would no longer be viable and Intabet operations did not fit with Media Corporation Plc plans. …

On the surface, Indian horse racing is growing strongly. Annual betting turnover rose 53.2 percent to INR 30.25 billion ($498.5 million) between 2006 and 2011, according to figures provided to the International Federation of Horse racing Authorities. The annual number of races run rose 28.2 percent to 3,312 over the period.   But there are signs of disquiet. “There haven’t …