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 …
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Picklive Announce Poker Style Champions League Fantasy Game with The Telegraph Media
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 …
Read More »GTECH Tender £18m for Probability PLC
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 …
Read More »Ladbrokes Halt High Street Expansion
Ladbrokes Plc, announced the halt of its planned retail bookmaker expansion on UK high streets. The gaming and sports betting operator, who had a troubled 2013, halted plans to open betting shops in the UK due to growing concerns regarding UK policy regarding Fixed Odds Betting Terminal (FOTBs). The move will see annual corporate expenditure fall from £100m to £60m, …
Read More »White Hat Gaming add Ezugi Live
Ezugi, the innovative live dealer gaming system providers, today announced that White Hat Gaming shall be integrating Ezugi’s Live Casino solution to its gaming platform. The distribution deal shall see Ezugi providing their entire portfolio of games including Black Jack, Roulette, Baccarat and Live Lottery. All of Ezugi’s live dealer games will be available in a mobile HTML5 version as …
Read More »SBC Interview Robbie Lyle ArsenalFan.TV – YouTube Star
Looking ahead to the upcoming Football World Cup in Brazil, team SBC interview’s ArsenalFan.TV’s, Director and Founder Robbie Lyle. Robbie sheds insight into why he set up his popular Youtube channel and website – ArsenalFan.TV, and how his young business has gained popularity through using social media channels. Robbie is a Surveyor by profession with experience of working in the …
Read More »ICE 2014 Blog – Paul McNea – The Mobile Experience
Paul McNea Founder of Betfuze Mobile discusses mobile first retention strategies for igaming operators. McNea aims to give insight into the latest mobile player trends and retention strategies needed for mobile gaming. McNea advice’s the ICE2014 audience what igaming competencies can be transferred from digital operational teams to mobile focused retention units. McNea further sheds light on what gaming skills …
Read More »ICE 2014 Blog – Brendan O’Kane Post Mobile Acquisition Engagement
Brendan O’Kane CEO of OtherLevels mobile analytic and data gives ICE 2014 insight into post user acquisition retention and optimization of users on mobile platforms. O’Kane focuses on retention of new user during their first 90 days of engagement with new mobile products. O’Kane states that this is a key area, where igaming operators need to focus further resources in, …
Read More »ICE Blog – Geoffrey Dixon – UK Mobile Trends
Reporting from the ICE 2014 Mobile Gaming session floor, Geoffrey Dixon founder of research and insight consultancy Vivid Interface delivers a key study in mobile gaming habits and trends in the UK igaming market. The study conducted by Vivid Interface on behalf of Clarion Events aims to give tacit research into mobile gamblers and their customs. The study uses a …
Read More »ICE 2014 Interview – Maxymiser’s Tim Axon on Real Time Player Identification
Ahead of ICE 2014 – SBC catches Tim Axon Principal Consultant igaming Maxymiser to discuss player identification and key measurements for igaming operators. Tim Axon has 13+ years’ experience in the customer and ROI led marketing, he is passionate about helping brands build profitable relationships that last. Tim has worked as Principle Consultant for Gaming at Maxymiser since May 2012, …
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