GTECH Interactive CEO Walter Bugno has shown his full support for the recently agreed software supply partnership with Greek licensed gambling operator – OPAP, stating it represents a major coup for GTECH Interactive and that it validates the company’s online capabilities. OPAP selected GTECH Interactive as its supplier of igaming inventory, in a closed tender that saw 888 Holdingss, Playtech …
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5050Sports, the innovative casino game that enables players to wager on the outcome of exclusively-licensed archive sports footage, will be available to more than 100 additional operators following integration to Quickfire, powered by Microgaming. The agreement between Real Sports Global, owners of 5050Sports, and Quickfire provides operators with new high turnover, on-demand football and sports betting content. Hosted by former …
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The UK Financial Times reports that UK sports betting operators are in a battle to secure customers ahead of the upcoming 2015 igaming taxation. The top six UK Sports betting operators – Paddy Power, Bet365, Betfair, Coral, William Hill and Ladbrokes will break all previous records on industry TV adspend in order to gain new customers in 2014, prior to …
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Blue Gem Gaming has today announced that it has officially launched within the B2B gaming space. Licensed in Curacao, Blue Gem Gaming is a games platform offering state of the art, 3D casino games including progressive and classic slots, mobile and table games, video poker, keno and scratch cards. The portfolio includes popular games such as “The Amsterdam Masterplan”, “Spartania” …
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Gala Coral Group has announced that Fiona Thorne has joined its management team in the newly created role of Corporate Affairs Director. Thorne, former CEO of Fishburn Hedges, takes up her new role in early April. She will report to Gala Coral Group CEO Carl Leaver. In the new role Thorne will be responsible for the development and delivery of …
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Maarten Haijer, Secretary General for the European Gaming and Betting Association (EGBA), has made public that the European Commission (EC) should follow through on promises to take the Swedish Government to the European Union Court of Justice over failure of the state to overhaul its online gambling regulations. Haijer warned that if the EC failed to act on this igaming …
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William Hill chairman Gareth Davies has described the task of finding a like-for-like replacement for CEO Ralph Topping as ‘impossible’. With Topping looking to take retirement next year, it has fallen to Davies to head up the search for his successor and it is something that he ‘really goes to town on’. Speaking with CITY AM, Davies said that Topping …
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Gaming and lottery supplier GTECH is set to undertake a new corporate strategy, focusing on development of igaming verticals after the company published 23% decline in full year profits. 2013 proved to be a tough year for the gaming supplier, as it witnessed a decrease in Net Profits to €205.23 million (2012 – €265 million). Key factor for the fall …
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GamCrowd, the crowdfunding and crowdsourcing company which focuses on the gambling industry, has signed an agreement with Centurion Solutions to invest a fund of up to £5m into start ups on the GamCrowd platform. Centurion represents some of the world’s largest professional sports and racing trading firms and this fund will be made up from funds provided by both Centurion …
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Viewing figures for this year’s Cheltenham Festival may have dropped by 4% to an average of 804,000, but the audience share was actually up by 1.5%. Channel 4 Racing was also able to take some comfort from its Gold Cup figures, as the Friday programme peaked at 1.53m, marginally up on last year’s 1.48m. A Channel 4 spokesman told The …
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