Online bingo and games operator Stride Gaming has confirmed that it has hit its London AIM flotation target, having amassed a total capital of £11.2 million. Stride Gaming the operating firm of igaming brands Kitty Bingo, Jackpot Café, Spin&Win and King Jackpot aims to use its float capital to increase its resources for organic growth and to fund potential acquisition …
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Amaya eyes acquisition link-up with GVC Holdings for bwin.party
UK business news sources have reported that Toronto listed Amaya Gaming is prepared to team up with GVC Holdings in order to create a special purpose vehicle and fend off a takeover of bwin.party entertainment by 888 Holdings. The rumoured link-up of Amaya Gaming and GVC Holdings is the latest turn in the bidding war for bwin.party assets which heated …
Read More »Romanian Liga secures data partnership with Sportradar
The Romanian Professional Football League (Liga Profesionistă de Fotbal; LPF) has secured a sports data partnership with Sportradar, Under the agreement, Sportradar will be granted the right to collect, archive and distribute data to the media and betting industry until the end of the 2017/18 season. Sportradar will collect data for all Liga I and Cupa Ligii competitions and thereby …
Read More »Ladbrokes rolls out full ‘cash-out’ functionality launch
Ladbrokes has announced the full roll-out of its ‘cash-out’ function following its successful trial period in April. The bookmaker had tested the product on its accumulator ‘My-Accas’ products during the month of April, allowing for customer to cash-out early priced winning on their accumulator bets. The operator revealed that more than 25,000 of its customers had used the cash-out function …
Read More »Crispin Nieboer – William Hill aims to ramp up product innovations
William Hill is set to ramp up its innovation projects and in-house development competencies as the operator looks to reinvigorate the sports betting and igaming markets. Speaking to advertising news source TheDrum at the Shoreditch Digital Festival, Crispin Nieboer William Hill’s Director of Corporate Development and Innovation detailed that the operator would look to launch up to 10 new innovations …
Read More »LeoVegas wins GP Bullhound Summit Superstar award
European mobile gambling specialist LeoVegas, was crowned 2015’s Summit Superstar after receiving the award for “Summit Superstar- the most interesting and high performing company in Europe” , at the prestigious GP Bullhound’s European Unicorn Summit Awards Over a hundred leading business leaders from the European digital economy attended the event in Marbella. The judging panel composed of leading CEOs, entrepreneurs, the …
Read More »Colossus Bets adds BetConstruct as pools and jackpot partner
Football pools operator Colossus Bets has confirmed that igaming and sports betting technology provider BetConstruct will be the latest platform to integrate its jackpot football pools products. BetConstruct sports betting inventory will gain access to the £10,000,000 Colossus the world’s largest football jackpot, as well as patented partial cash out technology, made available to BetConstruct’s over 100 global partners. Bernard Marantelli, …
Read More »IGT acquisition impacts GTECH Q1 2015 operating income
International Game Technology Plc (IGT) governance has presented separate results for GTECH SPA and IGT (legacy) divisions, due to the completion of its merger on 7 April. On Tuesday IGT Plc, released Q1 2015 trading update for GTECH operations GTECH reported key metric growth in revenues of 3% to €807 million (Q1 2014: €780 million), which had been supported by …
Read More »BetConstruct to unveil Asian View Sportsbook at G2E Asia
Industry technology developer BetConstruct, provider of online and land-based betting and gaming solutions and services, announces that it is now offering a localised version of its industry leading Sportsbook that will appeal to the wider audience in Asia and to players who prefer an Asian View to their Sportsbook. The BetConstruct Asian View Sportsbook will be unveiled during the G2E Asia …
Read More »Bettorlogic launches ACCAttacka app with Betfred
Bettorlogic, provider of real-time bet data and insight technology, has partnered with Betfred to supply data for the bookmaker’s ACCAttacka app. ACCAttacka utilises Bettorlogic’s comprehensive data and analysis to suggest football accumulators to punters who simply choose their stake and how much they would like to potentially win before a bespoke football multiple is generated. Bettorlogic’s betting tool offers concise …
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