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William Hill has announced that it will bring back its ‘Nine-Darter’ charity pledge for the World Darts Championship at Alexandra Palace (15 Dec 2016 – 2 Jan 2017). Starting this Thursday, tournament title sponsor William Hill will reward every nine-dart finish achieved at the 2016/2017 PDC World Dart Championship with a £9,000 donation to charity Parkinson’s UK. Sky Sports Darts …

Eugene Delaney Racing Post Head of B2B talks to SBC on the upgrade of its in-shop Best Gaming Technology (BGT) retail betting terminals for horseracing. Working on the strategic venture with BGT that has seen the betting terminals initially launched across Paddy Power, Ladbrokes and Jenningsbet retail estates, Delaney details to SBC why project stakeholders have placed content and information at …

SBC and iGaming Business have joined forces once more for the seventh annual edition of London Baby, the best free networking event during ICE Totally Gaming. The opening party for the three-day expo returns to the Café de Paris nightclub in Leicester Square on Tuesday 7 February. Online casino provider Ganapati has been confirmed as the platinum sponsor for London …

European gambling operator Stanleybet has upgraded its digital CRM capabilities by integrating Beehive technology provisions. Updating the market, Stanleybet will install Beehive marketing solutions across its European platforms for UK, Romania, Italy, Croatia and Denmark. The CRM partnership aims to optimise Stanleybet’s targeting of existing and new customers through optimal message delivery, segmentation of player database, data modelling of customers …

Yggdrasil Gaming has reached an agreement to provide its portfolio of slots to online casino VoodooDreams.com, the debut brand for SuprNation. The VoodooDreams.com casino will enjoy access to Yggdrasil slots including Big Blox and Bicicleta, as well as its collection of in-game promotional tools, BOOST™, and social sharing tool BRAG. Fredrik Elmqvist, CEO at Yggdrasil Gaming, said: “We love working …

Betcade, the first gambling app store for Android, has announced the launch of Betcade Pay, the first mobile payments solution built and optimised for gambling customers. The secure, fast and easy-to-integrate service is now available for integration to gambling operators, and requires the fewest steps to deposit of any solution on the market. By Q1, Betcade Pay will begin to …

Oulala.com, the daily fantasy sports (DFS) operator and B2B provider, has announced the closing of a new funding round of €1.35m (£1.12m), coming from private investors. Oulala will use the raised funds to gain more traction on the B2B landscape, and to confirm its leading position as the first DFS network specialised in European football. Benjamin Carlotti, Managing Director of Oulala …

International news publisher, the Press Association (PA) has been selected by European sports betting operator bwin (GVC Holdings subsidiary) as its news and content provider throughout its multiple product verticals. GVC management has approved PA journalist teams to provide exclusive content for its bwin sports betting asset. The content-led partnership aims to provide bwin with a further point of differentiation …

Industry charitable trust GambleAware has today published an official report which ‘outlines the estimated cost that problem gambling has on the UK Government’. The report estimates that the figure is between £260 million and £1.2 billion a year.  Working in-conjunction with the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), GambleAware breaks down cost impact to the UK government by sector relating …

Trainer Jim Best has been found guilty by a disciplinary panel of ordering a jockey not to win two races. However, the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) has only suspended him for six months, after deeming that his original four-year ban until 2020 was ‘too substantial to stand’. The panel, chaired by Sir William Gage, concluded that Best was guilty of conduct …