partypoker has commenced the roll-out of its planned ‘ecology changes’ aimed at improving its poker product environment for new and recreational players. The introduced changes are part of the operators Poker for the People’ campaign. The operator’s product team announced that the following changes had come into effect Players wishing to wait for a cash game will join the room-wide …
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Bryan Corbin, Technical Director at MRG Systems, explains how the firm has adapted the latest technology to enhance betting shop signage capabilities. The emergence of faster, smaller, more powerful PCs and other devices capable of driving screens and TVs has opened up new avenues and opportunities for screen display systems. What is clear is that the bespoke in-shop PC will …
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Rank Group governance remains fully confident of hitting its 2015 full year expectations, having recorded key metric growth on all its core business channels for the 15-week period to 11 October 2015 Updating investors and markets via an interim management statement, Rank informed that its group revenues had gained an 8% increase in a like for like basis. For its …
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London AIM listed mobile content and platform provider Nektan plc has published its 2015 full year results (12 month period ending 30 June). The results published marked Nektan plc’s first set of public earnings since its November 2014 AIM listing, which saw the firm secure £4 million in its IPO offering. Nektan governance stated the company had made significant progress, …
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Is it time for sports tipsters to be regulated in order to weed out bad and fradulent practices? Darren Moore of tipster website BettingGods.com asks the question. We hear it again, that dire word regulation. Aren’t we trying to renegotiate the terms of our EU membership to reduce it? Is it not just more paperwork and bureaucracy slowing down economic …
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BAGS (Bookmakers’ Afternoon Greyhound Service), SIS and Sport Mediastream, (the streaming platform owned by At The Races), have launched a new live video streaming service for British greyhound racing. For the first time, BAGS Greyhound Racing, one of the staples of the UK betting shop experience will be available to customers online. Customers will be able to view each single …
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William Hill, industry innovation incubator WHLabs has detailed the upcoming launch of three in-house developed first iOS apps that will offer brand new ways for its customers to bet. The free-to-download apps -– Cheer Me Up, Yes/No and Rapid, are currently being BETA tested. WHLabs management revealed that the apps are being launched to customers outside of the core sportsbook, …
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Thirty-eight illegal gambling machines have been seized from seven businesses by Hackney Council’s licensing enforcement team, police and the Gambling Commission visited social clubs in the borough, on Friday 2 October, to remove unauthorised machines. None of the seven premises had the correct licence to have the gambling machines, and they been previously warned to remove them by the council. The …
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Social games developer Zynga has moved to optimise player engagement with advertising partners by integrating new ad-solution SponsoredPLAY. The in-house developed advertising solution aims to bring gamified engagement and themed content to Zynga advertising inventory. The SponsoredPLAY engagement project has been led by Zynga advertising solutions subsidiary Studio E. Following a BETA testing period on popular games content FarmVille: Harvest Swap, …
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Betting and gaming technology and platform supplier BetConstruct has announced the opening of its regional strategic offices in Nicosia Cyprus. BetConstruct detailed that the Cyprus office would form part of its new international sales and client services development initiative, as the developer outlines future growth in 2016. BetConstruct Cyprus will be headed up by Regional Business Development Director Sergio Monjian. …
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