bwin.party bingo and games subsidiary Foxy Bingo has launched new UK casino portal FoxyCasino.com. Foxy Casino will offer UK players over 150 popular igaming titles such as Rainbow Riches and Millionaire Genie. The new casino vertical will further offer personalised CRM and VIP rewards to engage top players. Foxy Casino will utilise the popular Foxy Bingo character and brand Foxy …
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Amaya Gaming subsidiary poker operator PokerStars has begun to rollout its sports betting product in beta mode, as the operator looks to launch it’s an integrated online betting service by April 2015. PokerStars has announced beta rollout on 31st of March The long awaited launch of PokerStars betting vertical is set to come with the release of the operator PokerStars …
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Betway has signed an agreement with World Snooker to become title sponsor of the newly-named 2015 Betway UK Championship. Taking place at the historic Barbican in York from November 24 to December 6, the 2015 Betway UK Championship represents the online bookmaker’s latest foray into snooker sponsorship. The firm recently lent its name to World Snooker’s Shoot-Out tournament and the World Seniors …
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iGaming technology and software provider Playtech Plc has conditionally agreed to acquire a 91% stake in currency trading and binary options operator TradeFX Limited. The acquisition deal for TradeFX is potentially worth €458 million, as Playtech are prepared to make an initial cash payment of €208 million, combined with corporate performance related caveats valued at an additional €250 million. TradeFX …
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This week team Bet Advisor and SBC caught up with Australia horse racing tipster Ed Sullivan who has achieved a betting yield of +15%. Ed Sullivan talks to Bet Advisor and SBC about his passion for horse racing and sports betting, being four months in consistent profit Sullivan has become a tipster to follow in Bet Advisor’s stables. Click Here …
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Betfair Chief Technical Officer Paul Cutter has unveiled the company’s new technical development offices in the Romanian city of Cluj. The Cluj development office will staff 330 Betfair employees and will become the operator’s largest technical development centre. Betfair Romania will be central to the operator’s plans on focusing on in-house product and operational development over third party supplier agreements. …
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GTECH SpA governance has announced that the company has cleared all preconditions for its merger with International Game Technology (IGT). GTECH will now be able to complete its merger with IGT operations, following its $6.4 billion acquisition which was first announced in July 2014. The merger of the two gambling technology companies is set to become effective on Tuesday 7 …
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Net Entertainment (NetEnt), supplier and developer of online gaming solutions and games, has been granted its licenses to operate on the UK market from the UK Gambling Commission (UKGC). Following an extensive licensing process, NetEnt announced that it has been granted both the operating and software licenses for the UK market by the UKGC. Since new regulation was introduced in …
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Scientific Games Corporation has announced that it has signed a contract to provide OPAP S.A. with 5,000 video lottery terminals (VLT) pursuant to OPAP’s 10-year license to operate a network of 16,500 VLTs across the country. Deployment is expected to begin in spring 2015 and conclude by the end of the year. “We are proud to be chosen as one …
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French licensed sports betting operator France-Pari has declared its first ever profits, as the operator posted EBITDA earnings of €500,000 (FY 2013: -€200,000). The operator’s positive EBITDA performance transferred to net profits of €300,000, compared to the €700,000 in operational earnings loss posted in 2013 Company governance stated that the turnaround to positive earnings results had been driven by growth …
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