Technology

Colossus Bets has announced the launch of its £10,000,000 Colossus betting pool. The prize pool will be available for betting for the forthcoming European football season. Colossus bets aims to attach lottery-sized sports prize pools to sports betting customers. This new product launch aims to revitalize the football and sports  pool betting in the European sports market. Other product features …

With igaming marketing reaching peak saturation and player acquisition costs becoming more expensive, the SBC team caught up with Tim Axon, Principle Consultant for the gaming sector at conversion specialists Maxymiser, to talk about website optimisation and marketing big data issues that affect igaming operations. Tim Axon has 13+ years’ experience in the customer marketing and return-on-customer space and is …

Malta based sporting exchange Smarkets is set to unveil its new digital exchange product this July.  The sports betting exchange trying to take on igaming giants Betfair and Betdq  is set to announce new product innovations and product features to its current betting exchange interface. Founded by Jason Trost CEO  and Hunter Morris CTO, Smarkets enables peer to peer sports …

SBC looks to introduce its members and readers to leading players in the igaming sector. This week we feature an exclusive interview with Manx Telecom Sales Director Fergal McKenna. Manx Telecom is the Isle of Man-based hosting provider chosen by some of the world’s biggest igaming brands, including PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker, and Paddy Power. Fergal graduated from Trinity College …

iGaming operator 188BET has announced the launch of Microgaming quickfire games to its mobile and tablet casino mobile offerings. The partnership will see 188BET supplied with additional instant-play mobile games from Quickfire Microgamings mobile gaming services arm. This deal sees 188BET further add 30 HTML5 casino games to its current mobile casino portfolio. Titles will include popular games such as …

Betradar, supplier of sports and betting related data has announced the release of its new virtual sports betting product “Virtual Horse Classics” (VHC). Virtual Horse Classics is a virtual simulation that allows horse enthusiasts and punters to gamble on virtual horse track meetings. Customers are given information on horses on the VHC inventory, such as weight, past performance, rider caliber …

IGaming start-up Betable has confirmed that it has raised new fund for its real money gaming platform. Early stage investment has been granted to Betable by venture capital company Venture51. Early investment reports state that funding has been secured around a $20 million  (€11.5m) benchmark for the San Francisco based start-up   Betable are set to release new products and …

Sports betting solutions and services provider SBTech has extended its partnership with Gaming Media Group owned operator Mermaidbet.dk (main operations based in the UK) to offer SBTech’s cutting edge mobile betting platform to the regulated Danish market. SBTech’s HTML5 based mobile betting platform is fully compatible with all mobile devices, including smartphones, tablets, iPhones/iPads and Android devices, and gives sports …

Irish igaming operator – Paddy Power is set to become the first igaming operator to trial ‘real money’ sports bets on social network Facebook. Paddy Power customers will be able to place bets with the bookmaker through its application on Facebook (application will be named Paddy In-Play). Facebook will restrict access to only UK and Ireland desktop customers. The soon …