Technology

Dara Nasr Head of Agency Sales at Twitter, discusses sports and social trends witnessed on Twitter. Focusing on how the mass public interact and engage with the social tool, Nasr breaks down the drivers and motives of social engagement and public reaction. Nasr gives sports betting and outside industry insights into how Twitter is being used to deliver better communication …

Kickoff.co.uk have announced the launch of their new betting product The ‘Acca Smacker’, a new content driven betting engine that allows users to place multiple bets on football in a simplified way. The engine has the capacity to bring predictive algorithms, betting stats and bookmaker odds to make multiple betting easy. The  ‘Acca Smacker’ is now ready for full customer use at …

Bet Smart Media is giving soccer bettors across Britain a new, must-have weapon for their arsenal this season. In partnership with Opta, the world’s leading sports data company, Bet Smart Media has launched Opta Trends, an innovative new tool for bettors to easily find data-supported trends for upcoming English Premier League matches. The insights give bettors the confidence to place …

iGaming software supplier EveyMatrix has announced the opening of its Asian offices in Manilla. EveryMatrix management reported that the new Asian focused company operations would be spearheaded by Ian Sherrington, who would be taking up the role of Business Development Manager – Asia. EveryMatrix are viewing rapid expansion in the lucrative and fast growing Asian igaming market. EveryMatrix will also …

Lee Richardson experienced igaming industry executive has joined online betting insurance start-up Btwiice as non-executive director to aid the gaming focused insurance organization develop business, launch its verticals and attract its first clients. New igaming insurance operators Btwiice specializes in ‘insurance’ to football and in-play betting by guaranteeing potential gains from bets, whether the player wins or loses. Btwiice also …

Weswit, suppliers of real-time data streaming solutions, has renewed its deal to supply its Lightstreamer real-time data streaming technology to Yazino, the specialist in in-sync, cross-platform social casino gaming. Lightstreamer is a massively scalable solution for pushing live data over WebSockets and other web protocols to up to millions of concurrent users. It has been deployed by Yazino since 2011 …

BetTech Gaming  the provider of  technology solutions to the gaming sector, has secured a partnership with Uganda-based land and online betting operator 256Bet. The South African company will provide its flagship BetTech Sports product to significantly upgrade and re-launch 256Bet.com alongside the introduction of a brand new mobile betting verticals for the African focused sports entertainment company. A further wide …

Initial talks of a possible mergers between Swedish igaming sports betting solution provider Betting Promotion and igaming  software development firm Tain Technology. After a tough opening six months to 2013, that has seen Swedish Listed Betting Promotion see a YoY downturn in gaming revenues, the igaming supplier has initialized negotiations with Tain  Technology. A final decision on the merger will …

Casual and social games development studio Big Fish Games is set to undergo a major restructuring that may lead to company resourcing and operational cut backs. Reports from the  Seattle Times newspaper comment that the games developer may witness a loss of up to 140 jobs at their offices in the US and Europe. Further reports have stated that so …