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Amaya Inc is still sounding out potential investors as it weighs up the bid for the group led by embattled CEO & Chairman David Baazov, who is currently on a leave of absence from the company as he battles insider trading charges. The firm is also on the hunt for a new leadership team as Baazov and CFO Daniel Sebag have revealed …

Sky Betting & Gaming have announced that they have reached a milestone of 1,000 employees by hiring Software Engineer Nándor Szentpéteri, who joins the company’s Gaming Tribe. The announcement comes after record expansion across the last 5 months. The growth follows a 36% rise in revenue to £247m posted in the 12-months to June 2015, with further positive results anticipated …

Daily fantasy sports operator Mondogoal ran a major competition to cap off the end of the 2015/16 Premier League season with one player walking away with £15,000 after triumphing in the Mondogoal Championship. A total prize pool of £50,000 was up for grabs with second and third placed players taking home £7500 and £3750 respectively. The eventual postponement of the …

Schalke 04 has become the latest major football side to embrace the world of esports but it’s gone about it a far more dedicated way by taking over League of Legends team Elements.  Moritz Beckers-Schwarz, chairman of the board at FC Schalke 04 Arena Management GmbH said: “We have noticed that the level of professionalism in esports has continued to …

Graham Martin has joined the board of SDB Games, a popular skill games developer quickly gaining market share. Martin is a third generation bookmaker who founded Bonne Terre Limited, which eventually evolved into Sky Bet, one of Europe’s largest and most successful online gaming companies.  Martin is joining SDB as a Non-Executive Director. He commented: “SDB games has several USPs which make the company an attractive proposition. It has developed a new generation of no …

Major industry supplier BetConstruct has bolstered its casino offering with the addition of content from slots and table games provider Habanero. Habanero is  to supply BetConstruct with its full suite of casino games, consisting of 60 plus slots, six table games, and 10 video poker titles. These will now be available via desktop and mobile devices to customers of the sport …

Content marketing is hugely successful in the sports betting sector, but can it work in the same way for casino games? Scott Longley investigates. Casino occupies a curious position within the online gambling universe. While all the evidence shows that the category of gaming is by far the largest vertical in revenue terms, it remains a product which to a degree …

Coral has suspended betting on Tom Hiddlestone, star of BBC drama The Night Manager and Loki in Thor, to be named as the next James Bond.  There has been much speculation about who’ll replace Daniel Craig with a number of big names being thrown around. A great increase in betting activity on Hiddlestone this weekend though prompted Coral to first …

Following a press conference on Friday we now know some actual facts about the World Esports Association (WESA), what it’s about and who’s involved.  The executive board consists of ESL Co-Founder Ralf Reichert, Fnatic’s Wouter Sleijffers, Ninjas in Pyjamas CEO Hicham Chahine and Senior VP at ESL Sebastian Weishaar. There’s also Pietro Fringuelli, from law firm CMS Hasche Sigle, who will act as Interim …

The legal to-ing and fro-ing between Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs and Sportech over the gambling operator’s overpaid tax claim, worth £97m, is set to continue after HMRC announced it is to appeal the latest decision. The appeal is just the latest installment in the long running attempt by Sportech to reclaim tax the company says it erroneously paid on its Spot the Ball product between 1979 …