Technology

Jamie Hart Director of Innovation & Customer Experience for William Hill has confirmed his official departure from the bookmaker. Hart who had re-joined the company in 2008 heading up in-house development, had played a central part in the creation of William Hill industry innovation incubator WHLabs. As innovation director, Hart had overseen the development and integration of William Hill core …

Alibaba Group, Asia’s biggest online retailer, has agreed to buy a majority stake in Hong Kong-listed lottery technology provider AGTech Holdings for HK 2.4 billion ($308 million). The deal which will be processed through Alibaba investment subsidiary, Ali Fortune Holdings will see the retailer enter the rapidly growing Chinese lottery sector. Issuing a public filing with the Hong Kong Stock …

Paddy Power has released its latest innovation, One Touch, with a focus on improving the ease with which users are able to place live bets.  A statement on its launch summarised many users’ issues with in-play betting in that it’s overly time consuming with action affecting the bet you may wish to place with every second that passes. The bookmaker claims …

Frankfurt XETRA listed European lottery broker ZEAL Network SE (formerly MyLotto24) has announced that it will write down its venture investment in UK lottery games operator Geonomics Ltd. Updating the market, ZEAL governance detailed that it had reviewed Geonomics growth viability and concluded that it could no longer support its investment in the business. ZEAL’s write down will see the …

Danish national gambling operator Danske Spil AS has confirmed that it has awarded Scientific Games with its lead supplier contracts for lottery and gaming systems. Denmark’s main lottery Danske Lotteri will be serviced by Scientific Games systems and provisions for the next seven years, winning the contract from IGT-GTECH who had been Danske Spil lead lottery supplier since 1990. In …

Specialist supplier A Bet A has teamed up with Kiron Interactive to offer a new, low-cost virtual games service in the UK and Ireland.  The service, called Betty VC, allows bookmakers to integrate 10 virtual sports including horse racing, dogs, and football in-shop with customised branding. In addition to the fixed-odds betting markets, it also includes a progressive jackpot pool …

Gaming and IT specialised testing laboratory NMi has today announced that a partnership has been agreed with DFS operator DraftKings. The agreement will see NMi carry out the operator’s compliance testing in the UK. NMi, which has over 40 years experience in testing and auditing, will be testing and certifying the full range of DraftKings fantasy sports contests on desktop and mobile platforms …

SafeCharge has today announced that SuperBet, one of the largest sports betting companies in Romania, has selected SafeCharge as its preferred payments partner for online deposits and withdrawals. Thanks to this agreement SafeCharge’s Personalised Cashier is to be integrated into SuperBet’s gaming platform. This will allow SuperBet users to initiate deposit and withdrawal requests and to select payment methods of choice for …

Presenting its full year 2015 corporate results this morning (52-week period ending 29 December), William Hill governance detailed that the company had paid circa £87 million in additional UK gambling duties. The hefty tax charge would impact the FTSE listed betting operator’s top-line metric performance, with William Hill announcing FY 2015 operating profit slump of 22% to £291 million (FY …

Data expert TXODDS is offering traders the chance to experience its TXTRADER service by providing a free weekend trial from today until Sunday 28th February. This is a particularly good opportunity given that the weekend includes a host of crunch games across Europe, including Man Utd v Arsenal in the Premier League, Man City v Liverpool in the League Cup Final, …