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SBC begins the week by speaking to Simon Westbury Director of Sales for VSoftCo Ltd on virtual gaming’s presence within betting services inventory framework. VSoftCo Ltd is a specialist software development company in the global virtual sports market. Over the past 5 years, the company has developed a highly sophisticated suite of products, largely focused on virtual football. Westbury gives …

Having confirmed its re-entry into the UK sports betting market, Asian handicap sports betting specialist 12BET has announced the re-launch of its new European and UK sportsbook product. 12BET will remain in-play football betting specialists, with over 6000 live football events each month, an average of 60 markets per event and a host of 5 minute mini markets. 12BET will …

UK business news sources have reported that 888 Holdings are preparing a £1 billion takeover of igaming and sports betting operator bwin.party. The news, follows last Friday’s media conformation by rival operator GVC Holdings of its acquisition interest in purchasing bwin.party entertainment in its entirety. The 888 bid would likely be treated as a reverse takeover as bwin.party has a …

Digital marketing and user engagement/optimisation specialist Maxymiser, has announced a set of further extensions to its optimisation suite with update 9.1 which its hopes will boost the performance of its igaming and sports client portfolio which  includes operators Paddy Power, Camelot, iGame, bwin and Betfair Maxymiser 9.1 includes new features that empower marketers to easily personalise customer experiences and also …

Online gambling investment firm GVC Holdings has confirmed to the media, that it has submitted a proposal for the acquisition of bwin.party entertainment in its entirety. GVC Holdings this morning released a short corporate statement confirming its actions and interests with regards to bwin.party. A bwin.party counter statement would confirm the interest of GVC’s acquisition proposal, and would further state …

Ash Gaming Managing Director Andrew Porter and Gaming Standards Association Protocol Director Ethan Tower have been confirmed as high-profile speakers at next month’s edition of the Slot Summit in Bucharest, Romania. Jonathan Smith, Training and Development Consultant, Sporting Index/ Sporting Option, has also been named on the stellar line-up of speakers for the June 9-11 event. Attendees will be provided with valuable …

William Hill is set to ramp up its innovation projects and in-house development competencies as the operator looks to reinvigorate the sports betting and igaming markets. Speaking to advertising news source TheDrum at the Shoreditch Digital Festival, Crispin Nieboer William Hill’s Director of Corporate Development and Innovation detailed that the operator would look to launch up to 10 new innovations …

Industry news source EGR Magazine has disclosed that PKR CEO Malcolm Graham has left the operator to join mobile gaming platform developer Gametech as Vice President. Graham confirmed his departure to EGR Magazine stating that after more than ten years leading PKR operations it was now “time to move on” after being offered “a great opportunity”. As Vice President of …

Sweden joins Ireland, France and Germany as the nations whose runners in Britain are treated in the same way as British-registered horses.All other international runners are required to be sampled prior to running in Britain The British Horseracing Authority (BHA) today announces the addition of Sweden to the list of racing nations whose runners in Britain will be treated, in …