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Neither a major football championship, nor the Olympic Games took place in 2015, yet it’ll remain vivid in the memories of many sport fans for some time yet. The All Blacks retaining the Rugby World Cup, Barcelona’s great run for the title in the Champions League, Conor McGregor’s UFC victory over Aldo and Novak Djokovic’s fantastic season, sports fans were …

The best Asian industry networking event returns to Manila on Friday 18 March as Sports Betting Community (SBC) and Asia Gaming Brief (AGB) celebrate another ‘Asian Gaming Spring Social’ networking event. Set on the Friday before the iGaming Asia Congress begins in Macau, and held at the luxurious Salon de Ning, Peninsula Hotel in Makati, organisers expect a full turnout …

UK independent gambling watchdog, the Senet Group has confirmed that Sky Betting & Gaming (SB&G) has joined its main body aimed at promoting higher industry standards with regards to  advertising, operational practices and forming further socially responsible measures. SB&G governance was pleased to confirm joining the Senet Group as the body’s first online-only gambling operator. As a new member SB&G …

Issuing a corporate submission regarding the planned £2.3 billion merger of Ladbrokes-Coral, William Hill has warned the UK Competitions & Markets Authority (UK CMA) that the creation of a merged enterprise will negatively undermine the overall UK betting industry. William Hill the UK’s biggest retail bookmaker, has urged the UK CMA to terminate the tie-up of Britain’s second and third …

Stockholm listed gambling operator, Cherry Gaming AB has returned to full year (2015) positive EBITDA recording group earnings of SEK 35.9 million (£3 million). The operator continues its strong online performance, which contributed 69% of 2015’s FY SEK 528 million (£43 million) group revenues, up 56% on 2014’s SEK 340 million (£28 million). The results presented by Cherry governance, represent …

Based in Tel Aviv, Commologic is an igaming supplier and start-up which has made a superb start to 2016 after agreeing a deal with Unibet to supply the operator with its BetUP second screen live betting product. BetUP is focussed on entertainment and fan engagement in that it allows customers to bet quickly and easily on any device on, mostly, …

It was the same story as last week in the Tipster Challenge, as all four tipsters returned a pair of winners, with the Guest tipster taking victories at more profitable odds. Steve Mullington’s final flourish took 888sport to a total of 5.58, leaving the Guests just 0.27 points behind long term leaders SBC News. Timeform and bettingexpert continue to push hard …

As reported in iGaming Business, Unibet has announced the launch of its new casino mobile application, which will be made available on the Apple iPhone for the first time. ‘Unibet Casino’ has been developed for iOS devices and was previously accessible on iPad devices, but this will now also be extended to iPhones. The app is available now in Apple’s …

With Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny having called parliamentary elections on 26 February, Paddy Power has slashed its odds to a near certain 11/10 on a centre right coalition of Fine Gael – Fianna Fail taking over the Dail Eireann (parliament). The bookmaker’s market details that Enda Kenny’s Fine Gael party will ditch current dancing partner Irish Labour for an …

Spanish gambling regulator, the Dirección General de Ordenación del Juego (DGOJ), has revealed that the country’s online gaming market experienced a 26% year-on-year increase in revenue in the 12 months through to December 31, 2015.  Gross gaming revenue for the full year totalled €319.6m (£248.7m), while turnover also increased 28% year-on-year to more than €8bn (£6.2bn). Sports betting served as …