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A new and unique interactive service is launching on Scottish terrestrial broadcaster STV this month, bringing together television, mobile and online betting. Interactive gaming service Win Cash Live will broadcast across Scotland daily, coming on air after midnight for two hours. STV’s city TV channels STV Glasgow and STV Edinburgh will also broadcast the programme every night after 11pm for three hours. …

SBC discusses the current state of the online bingo market with Phil Fraser, the owner of player portal Whichbingo.co.uk. Once a burgeoning market for operators, online bingo has now hit maturity and saturation, Fraser addresses current consumer habits and trends, and gives further insight on operator marketing initiatives. Phil Fraser has been involved in the online bingo industry since its …

Jelena Kuzmanov, product owner at Danish affiliate Better Collective, attended the recent Slot Summit in Bucharest on behalf of SBC News. Find out what she thought about Clarion‘s latest gaming event. SBC: This was the first Slot Summit – how do you feel it went? Great! As you pointed out – this was our first time there and it was …

Gaming Economics joined 3,000 other industry executives at last week’s iGaming Super Show in Amsterdam, where one of the top topics of conversation was the breaking news that Gala Coral and Ladbrokes were in talks over a potential merger. But remember, we’ve been here before. In 1998, Ladbrokes’ proposed takeover of a then far-smaller Coral were blocked by the Competition …

Targeting future market growth and product innovation, William Hill is set to open strategic start-up accelerators in London and Tel Aviv. Accelerators take equity stakes in early stage start-ups and venture ideas in exchange for help with capital, resources and mentorship. William Hill is set to offer eight companies an investment of £25,000 ($40,000) if they choose to join the …

Only three months after taking over the executive leadership of embattled Ladbrokes, new CEO Jim Mullen has become the talk of UK corporate business following the shock news of a potential merger with Gala Coral. This week Ladbrokes share price jumped 14% in the wake of the announcement, Mullen and Ladbrokes governance have stated that the merger talks are real …

Online gaming companies are evolving into multi-disciplinary technology, marketing and product companies where the demands are for capable and qualified staff both from within and outside the sector, according to the new salary survey released by industry recruitment specialists BettingJobs. Today’s online gaming businesses are evolving in line with the technology that powers them and this is particularly evident when …

The potential merger UK legacy gambling operators Ladbrokes and Gala Coral has sent the industry into speculative overdrive as commentators and industry analyst try to gauge the effect of the heavyweight merger on the industry’s landscape. Both Ladbrokes and Coral’s governance have admitted that the merger talks are real and in action, Ladbrokes issued a statement to the FTSE market, …

Set for Saturday July 11 at the Las Vegas MGM Grand Arena, UFC 189 Aldo vs McGregor is this years most anticipated mixed martial arts (MMA) fight. The main event will see stoic Brazilian featherweight champion Jose Aldo ‘Junior’ (28) take on raucous Dubliner ‘The Notorious’ Conor McGregor (26) in a fight that has caught the public and international media’s …