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Bookmaker Paddy Power has selected AppDynamics’ Application Performance Management (APM) solution to reduce the frequency and duration of application outages and help optimise its customer experience online. Mobile is Paddy Power’s biggest and fastest-growing sales channel, and AppDynamics is generating the critical real-time insights on mobile app performance and user transactions it needs to maintain optimum user experience and maximise …

Gambling Consultant Steve Donoughue takes a look at the attempt of bookmakers to replicate the alcohol industry’s Portman Group. Yesterday saw the launch of the Senet Group by the big 3 Bookmakers and Irish upstart Paddy Power. For those of you who missed it, which is odd because it got some good news coverage, the Senet Group will be an …

Paddy Power’s operating profit fell by 14% to €60.1 millon (£47.83 million) during the first half of the 2014, the betting and gaming operator stated that it had been hit a run of unfavourable results. The operator stated that despite a poor first half to 2014, it expected a stonger second performance, despite an €11m headwind from product fees, new …

bettingexpert.com Racing editor Stephen Harris digests the latest Ladbrokes woes and identifies five implications for the industry. The headlines in the press said it all last week as the beleaguered bookmaker suffered yet another dire set of results, particularly when compared with William Hill, Paddy Power and Bet365. But what do these shocking figures mean for the industry as a …

Revealing how one lucky punter turned €8 (£6.40) into €83,000 (£66,217), Paddy Power said it is still recovering from an almighty spanking at the Galway Races. “It is far from easy to pick the winner of the Galway Hurdle – one of the feature races of the seven-day long Galway Festival that is as lively off the track as on it. …

The person responsible for stealing information relating to 649,055 Paddy Power customers is unlikely to face criminal prosecution. Instead, Canadian authorities have said the case is a civil matter and also declined to identify the individual. The Irish bookmaker said the full extent of the 2010 hacking episode became known to the company in recent months when it took legal action with the …

Paddy Power has revealed that some personal information relating to 649,055 customers was compromised during a cyber attack on their IT system four years ago. The Irish bookmaker is contacting certain clients in relation to what it deems “an historical data breach”. However, the group said no financial information or passwords were compromised in the incident and customers’ accounts are …

Financial Stock brokers and corporate advisors Numis Corp have suggested that William Hill and Paddy Power explore a potential merger. A Numis Corp statement on Tuesdays London fianancial trading, indicated that the conditions in the sports betting and gambling market, could see the potential merger of Paddy Power and William Hill. “This would create a much more attractive investment than …

In 2011 the Guardian published a definitive (though writer, James Dart, argued otherwise) list of the 100 football blogs to follow. The world of football blogging is highly competitive with often little to no financial reward. To stand out, and moreover, to maintain a consistent and steady flow of traffic to a blog is no mean feat. As such it …