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Slovak football has been rocked this weekend by allegations concerning four active and three former Slovakian professional football players regarding football match fixing and having ties with Asian-based match fixing groups. This past weekend saw the arrest of 16 people with ties in Slovak football in a Slovak and Czech police joint task-force to stop corruption in regional sports. Slovak …
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MGS – Live Blog – Paul McNea Betfuze – Why Mobile is the New King!
Paul McNea gives the MGS Summit audience insight into what is driving mobile growth and engagement. With more than £13 billion wagered on mobile devices each year, and global growth of 13% YoY mobile gaming is looking to become king of gaming. McNea looks at trends and what is accelerating growth in the mobile gaming sector, McNea predicts that mobile …
Read More »SBC Interviews Bill Squadron of Bloomberg Sports
This Week the SBC team catches up with Bloomberg Sports President Bill Squadron, to discuss sports data analysis and Bloomberg Sports (BSports) product range as it aims to tackle the European sports betting market. Launched as Bloomberg Sports in 2010, BSports takes the technology developed by Bloomberg, the leading global provider in financial data and analytics, and applies it to …
Read More »TotelFootball Partner with Ocho Gaming to Target Latin America
TotelFootball providers of fantasy football games with real money prizes and rewards have announced an exclusive partnership to target the emerging Latin American igaming market with Ocho Gaming. Totelfootball will provide real money fantasy football games to Ocho Gaming Latin American brand JuegaOcho.com The partnership will see a branded JuegaOcho.com fantasy football games, where players will be allowed to select players …
Read More »Examining The Debate on Sports Integrity & Regulation of Gaming in Brazil
Despite Brazil’s ban on most forms of gambling, betting is a popular pastime amongst Brazilian football-fanatics. The estimated size of the un-licensed sports betting market is unknown, but exponential growth is anticipated during the World Cup in 2014 and the Olympic Games in 2016. With an intensified betting activity in an un-licensed and un-monitored environment comes a higher risk of …
Read More »Betting Operators: Act on Fixing Or Be Forced To
Sport and sport gambling are two sides of a coin, even if sport itself is in many ways unenthusiastic about the relationship. Some in sports are even contemptuous of the link but this ultimately will be to their own cost. There never has been and there never will be a way of entirely dissociating these two acutely human entertainments. While …
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