Ralph Topping will remain in charge of Britain’s biggest bookmaker until the end of next year, the company said yesterday. The firm issued a statement clarifying its position on Topping’s replacement, after reports in the media suggested that it had accelerated its original plan (William Hill share price: Ralph Topping to retire sooner than expected). William Hill said in a …

The battle for the World Cup in Brazil promises to be intense, with no clear favourite having yet emerged as we ready ourselves for the tournament this summer. There promises to be a similarly tight battle for World Cup supremacy off the pitch, as the planet’s biggest iGaming companies jostle for position in the search rankings. Over the past few …

Fidens, the Football Form Labs-operated tax-free betting syndicate trading on football, has broken the £1million mark under management as it continues its rapid growth. The syndicate uses high-powered algorithms, a comprehensive proprietary worldwide information source, and efficient bet placement to gain the best possible price on football markets. Following six years of development, Fidens has made over 9,400 trades since launching in …

Biggerbet Ltd has promoted finance director Iain Coward to Managing Director of the business.The Durham-based company’s portfolio includes online affiliate and betting service FREEBETS.com, it’s Australian division au.FREEBETS.com, Horseracingresults.co.uk, and Cheltenham Festival News. Coward, a Chartered Accountant who trained with PricewaterhouseCoopers, has been working in the online gaming sector for over six years. This included a three-year stint at the world’s largest poker site, Pokerstars.com, where he …

The busiest period for the gaming sector may just ended, nevertheless SBC has lined up three events that you will not want to miss out! Team SBC would like to inform you that we have lined up three special industry events, focusing on networking and business development. The first on 28 February sees the popular SBC & AGBrief Asian Gaming …

Igaming software and services provider Playtech PLC announced publically the issuing of a public dividends to investors and shareholders, as the company saw revenues rise in the fianancial year of 2013. Playtech’s performance was boosted by strong sales revenues in 2013, and further aided by the successful sale of its share in igaming operator William Hill PLC and William Hill …

English Football League One’s Tranmere Rovers have suspended 61 year club manager Ronnie Moore over suspicions of breaching the English Football Associations rules regarding betting and gaming. The Football club issues a statement suspending the manager for the foreseeable future, as the FA will investigate the managers betting actions. Assistant manager John McMahon will oversee the management of the Tranmere …

SBC business correspondent Mark McGuinness caught up with businessman and industry entrepreneur Chris North to chat about his latest venture, GamCrowd which looks to disrupt the traditional way start-ups and existing companies seek funding and investment in the gambling sector. GamCrowd is a specialist igaming crowd funding platform, GamCrowd aims to bring better funding, industry knowledge,  to entrepreneurs and investors …

Picklive Limited, operators and suppliers of next-generation daily fantasy sports and social gaming are launching a unique poker room style based fantasy Champions League game with the Telegraph Media Group. The deal will allow the Telegraph to offer its current 200,000 fantasy players to play for a four figure cash prize using a poker room based contest with a fusion …

Business news sources the Wall Street Journal and Interactive Investor report that shares in Probability PLC have rocketed by 47.6% to 46.50 pence in the wake of news of a recommended cash acquisition by gaming and lotteries software supplier GTech Group. News sources report that GTech are prepared to acquire the mobile gaming operator, for a sum of £18m. The …