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Australian news sources have speculated that Crown Resorts is set to acquire the remaining 50% stake of its joint venture with sports betting exchange Betfair for control of Betfair Australia . The casino operator will buy out Betfairs stake in Betfair Australia, a joint funded venture between both parties which launched in August 206, under the licence of the Tasmanian …
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Yggdrasil Gaming, has agreed terms with Unibet to provide the leading sports betting and gaming operator with its entire games portfolio. Unibet is the largest operator Yggdrasil Gaming has partnered with to date and is also one of the fastest growing businesses in the European regulated gaming market having posted record earnings in 2013. In its most recent results its …
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GTECH Interactive CEO Walter Bugno has shown his full support for the recently agreed software supply partnership with Greek licensed gambling operator – OPAP, stating it represents a major coup for GTECH Interactive and that it validates the company’s online capabilities. OPAP selected GTECH Interactive as its supplier of igaming inventory, in a closed tender that saw 888 Holdingss, Playtech …
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5050Sports, the innovative casino game that enables players to wager on the outcome of exclusively-licensed archive sports footage, will be available to more than 100 additional operators following integration to Quickfire, powered by Microgaming. The agreement between Real Sports Global, owners of 5050Sports, and Quickfire provides operators with new high turnover, on-demand football and sports betting content. Hosted by former …
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Blue Gem Gaming has today announced that it has officially launched within the B2B gaming space. Licensed in Curacao, Blue Gem Gaming is a games platform offering state of the art, 3D casino games including progressive and classic slots, mobile and table games, video poker, keno and scratch cards. The portfolio includes popular games such as “The Amsterdam Masterplan”, “Spartania” …
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Gaming and lottery supplier GTECH is set to undertake a new corporate strategy, focusing on development of igaming verticals after the company published 23% decline in full year profits. 2013 proved to be a tough year for the gaming supplier, as it witnessed a decrease in Net Profits to €205.23 million (2012 – €265 million). Key factor for the fall …
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GamCrowd, the crowdfunding and crowdsourcing company which focuses on the gambling industry, has signed an agreement with Centurion Solutions to invest a fund of up to £5m into start ups on the GamCrowd platform. Centurion represents some of the world’s largest professional sports and racing trading firms and this fund will be made up from funds provided by both Centurion …
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Prolexic Technologies, an expert in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection services, has issued a high alert threat advisory on NTP amplification DDoS attacks. This attack method has surged in popularity this year, fuelled by the availability of new DDoS toolkits that make it simple to generate high-bandwidth, high-volume DDoS attacks against online targets. A Network Time Protocol (NTP) Amplification …
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SBC News caught up with Remote Gambling Association Chief Executive Clive Hawkswood to ask him a few questions about his organisation’s new ground-breaking agreement with GamCare and Gordon Moody Association for protecting vulnerable people using self-exclusion. SBC: What has been the biggest challenge in setting up a self-exclusion system for remote operators? Clive Hawkswood: For individual remote operators, self-exclusion works …
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Legally licensed US igaming operator BetAmerica.com, has announced a strategic partnership with igaming marketing and partnership specialist technology – Income Access. Montreal based Income Access will aid BetAmerica.com, with the launch of its new affiliate marketing platform. The operator is legally approved to offer horse and greyhound racing betting to US citizens. BetAmerica.com, additionally offers a range of fantasy sports …
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