Technology

Classic console games developer Atari unveiled its social casino vertical Atari jackpots, in a move that sees the developer enter the social gambling market. The popular gaming brand will look to merge its iconic console/arcade content with casino slots and games. Having avoided bankruptcy in early 2013, Atari SA led by Chief Executive Frederic Chesnais will look to establish itself …

Scientific Games Corporation’s planned $5.1 billion (£3.25 billion) acquisition of Bally Technologies Inc has been put in doubt following an inability by Scientific Games investment syndicate to secure financing for its acquisition. Bloomberg News reported that a contingent of financing banks including JPMorgan Chase, Deutsche Bank and Bank of America Corp had failed to gather the $3.19 billion (£2 billion) …

  NYX Gaming Group announces the launch of online gaming site FootballPools.com on its Open Platform System, NYX OPS.Bringing together Classic Pools, Premier 10 and MatchXtra, plus the latest in Instant win slots and table games from NYX OGS, The Football Pools has totally revamped its online offering as part of its business modernization plan. David Flynn, EVP Business Development …

Casino social games developer, Playstudios announced that it had raised $20 million in its latest round of venture financing, as the social gambling start-up looks to establish itself as a leader in the social gambling market. The social casino games studio confirmed that it had reached its target of $20 million funding, with the majority of the sum being contributed …

Betfair are set to trial HR cloud based management program Fairsail, as the betting operator looks for an alternative to its ageing Oracle and Workday SAP systems. The project to integrate a new HR solution was undertaken by Simon MacDonald, Head of Betfair Talent Acquisitions. Betfair will look to integrate a HR management system that is flexible with its current …

Sky Bet Title sponsor of the English Football League introduced wireless location based technology, iBeacons to Championship Football Stadiums Elland Road (Leeds United) and The New York Stadium (Rotherham United) this weekend. iBeacons, are Bluetooth transmitters, which allow for localised messaging when customers/consumers are in-range with a beacon signal. Sky Bet trailed the new Apple proximity messaging technology, sending ‘push’ …

BskyB betting and igaming subsidiary Sky Bet confirmed to industry news source Egaming Review, that it had integrated Apple’s TouchID technology within its mobile betting application. Sky Bet customers will be able to log into their sports betting app using their fingerprints instead of a password or PIN. After a period of testing Sky Bet will look to release the …

Digital advertising company Fresh 8 was crowned the winner of the EiG 2014 Start-Up LaunchPad at Arena Berlin today (Thursday) after what the judges called the “strongest set of presentations” in the history of the competition. Fresh 8 secured 36% of the audience vote, followed by Discount IF (28%), Lucky VR (18%), Asylum Labs (10%) and Betify (8%). DLA Piper …

Igaming content provider Net Entertainment recorded a Q3 2014 revenue increase of 41.8%, posting gaming revenues of SEK 217.2 (£18.7 million) (Q3 2013 – SEK 153.1 million). Increase gaming revenues were supported by an increase operating profit of SEK 73.4 million (£6.3 million) for the period ending 30 September. Net Entertainment senior management stated that the content provider had witnessed …

Having recorded its strongest ever revenue quarter (€116.5 million), Playtech CEO Mor Weizer stated that the igaming technology provider would look to make an acquisition which would “take Playtech to the next level”. Ahead of regulatory changes being brought into the UK and European igaming markets, Weizer detailed that Playtech would look to make a major gaming acquisition by H1 …