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Lior Shiff CEO of Product Madness and Vicenc Marti CEO of Akamon Entertainment , share experiences on their products and their perspective journeys to successful social gambling monetisation. The expert panel on games monetisation hosted by IGB’s Michael Caselli looks to give insight into how companies can target players, and which methods and models are the quickest for Social Gambling …
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SBC Business correspondent Mark McGuinness caught up with hot Irish start-up Elemnent Wave’s CEO Dorothy Creaven. Element Wave recent winners of the EIG 2013 Start-up Launch Pad, specialize in creating cutting-edge software for the mobile market, specifically in the user engagement and customer retention space. Mark McGuinness discusses mobile analytics, retention, and how Element Wave can help companies operate in …
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iGaming operator Bet365 has signed a content partnership with games developer and content marketplace Odobo, to distribute a selection of Bet365 games and products using Odobo games development platform – Game Development Kit (GDK). Bet365 intergrted the Odobo platform in 2013, and has alrady launched two games to go live with the operator are The Legend of Olympus, developed by …
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Following on from EIG 2013 Barcelona, SBC Business Correspondent Mark McGuinness met with Six Faces’s Shaun Pyrah, Director of Strategy & Product. Based in Hobart Australia, the start up Six Faces aims to develop convergence between social games and real money gambling, through its carefully constructed product portfolio. Mark McGuinness, discusses product convergence between social and real money gaming, Six …
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Sports betting technology systems and software supplier OpenBet have confirmed the hiring of former Amazon Development Director – Joe Eldridge as Chief Product Officer. The role has been specially designed for Mr Eldridge, as the software supplier looks to revitalize its core platform and its overall future product strategy. Joe Eldridge will take this senior management position, and will now …
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SBC business correspondent Mark McGuinness interviews Julien Cunze, CEO and Co-Founder Btwiice. Sports betting insurance start up aims to bookmakers with an all-inclusive solutions to exploit the ‘cash-in’ trend through offering their player base secured betting insurances when they play on a a partner platform. Btwiice were recently selected to compete at the EIG Expo Barcelona 2013 Start-Up Launch Pad. …
Read More »Swedish sports betting software supplier Betting Promotion has agreed the purchase of igaming software developer Tain from gambling company Atletico Nordic. The acquisition of Tain Gaming has been set at approximately SEK44.3 million (€5 million/$6.9 million), and will see Tain services fully acquired including subsidiaries Tain Ukraine, Tain Malta, Tain International and WL Services. Betting Promotion had been eying the …
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Amaya Gaming Group have announced the intended sale of its B2C division – Wagerlogic to Toronto based Goldstar Acquisitionco Inc for a reported (US) $70m. Wagerlogic the B2C division of Amaya Gaming Group, was acquired in April 2011 as part of Amaya Gaming’s (US) $35m acquisition of troubled igaming software provider CryptoLogic Limited the parent company of Wagerlogic. Wagerlogic operates …
Read More »Sports betting news source and player bookmaker review website BookMakersReview.com has reported that “Domain King” Rick Schwartz (pictured left) has sold domain URL – Ebet.com for a staggering sum of $1.35M to a new Filipino owner. The domain Ebet.com was purchased and registered Rick Schwartz by in 1996 at wholesale price from a Domain registry such as Godaddy.com or 123reg.com, …
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Having acquired Global Betting Exchange Alderney Limited (GBEA), the operators digital sports betting exchange Betdaq for €30m in late February 2013, igaming operator Ladbrokes have began to the promotion of their first ever betting exchange ‘Ladbrokes Exchange’. The acquired betting exchange will now work under the Ladbrokes brand and not as a seperate entity. Ladbrokes who have had a troubled …
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