iGamers and industry colleagues! Team SBC & AGBrief are all set for the Winter Asian Gaming Social, taking place this Friday, 28th February, at the most exclusive new nightclub in Metro Manila, 71 Gramercy Lounge & Club in Makati. Over 100 local gaming executives will be gathering at this prestigious spot which we have exclusively from 7 to 10pm, after …
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Sir Roy Gardner Joins Hills Board
William Hill announced the appointment of Sir Roy Gardner as an independent Non-executive Director, with effect from 3 March 2014. He will serve as a member of the Audit and Risk, Remuneration, Nomination and Corporate Responsibility Committees, and will take over as Senior Independent Non-executive Director when David Edmonds retires from the Board at the 2014 Annual General Meeting. Sir …
Read More »Bulgaria Grants Sports Betting Licences to Betfair & EuroFootball
Bulgaria’s State Gambling Commission (SGC) has granted approval to sports betting operator EuroFootball and betting exchange Betfair to allow Bulgarian betting transactions and promotion of betting services to Bulgarian citizens. The SGC will allow both operators to promote sports betting services through .bg access url’s. The license further grants the operators will the inclusion of promoting online casino and poker …
Read More »Betfair’s Michael Bischoff Warns of Hidden Cloud Costs
Michael Bischoff CIO of Betfair has warned that public cloud computing offers several hidden costs to users and business, which must be taken into account, when undertaking data sifts. S The operator Betfair used cloud services solutions under VMware Technology – vCloud Hybrid, a competitor to such cloud and data services as Rackspace and Amazon Web Services. Speaking to Computing.co.uk …
Read More »True Drama – The Richard Glynn & Ladbrokes Story
The 86th US Academy Awards (The Oscars – to you and me!) are upon us, for this week’s cultural sections of the media have been debating the pros and cons of such heavyweight dramas such as current favourite Twelve Years a Slave and its contenders American Hustle, Gravity and Dallas Buyers Club. No doubt they are all worthy candidates to …
Read More »Net Entertainment Add Social Twist
Net Entertainment provider of high-quality online casino games, is pushing the online casino boundaries with the launch of its ExtendTM API framework. Net Entertainment ExtendTM enables operators to build tailored and completely customised gaming experiences that are triggered by real-time data through the powerful API. Development teams can use their creativity to graphically enhance customers’ game play to deliver a …
Read More »IGT Strike Action Gaming Partnership
IGT (NYSE: IGT), today confirmed its continued commitment to innovation and industry leadership in video poker. The Company has reached an exclusive agreement with long-time partner Action Gaming to extend collaboration on development of multi-hand video poker games for land-based and online play. As part of the agreement, IGT has purchased patents from Action Gaming which are currently utilized in …
Read More »GTECH to Close International Poker Network
iGaming software and lottery technology supplier are set to cease operations of its poker software – International Poker Network (known in the poker industry as the IPN Network), by the second quarter of 2014. The closure of their poker network, which supplied GTech igaming clients with turnkey services to promote poker to their customer base, will see the igaming software …
Read More »BetTech & Telspace Combat Cyber Crime
BetTech Gaming, the global provider of turnkey gaming solutions to market-dominating clients, has partnered with Telspace Systems to significantly boost its security operations. Telspace Systems has been awarded a multi-year contract to conduct round-the-clock attack and penetration testing and analysis. They will also run vulnerability assessments and source code reviews, handle large, complex transactional systems and provide training. The preventative measure will benefit all …
Read More »Reutter Appointed as William Hill Digital Director
iGaming and sports betting operator William Hill have announced the appointment of Juergen Reutter as its new online operations director. Juergen Reutter will take over digital and mobile operations from the Gibraltar office of the operator and steps up from his previous position as Director of Mobile Gaming for William Hill Online, where Reutter served for 18 months. Reutter has …
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