Bede Gaming has placed 76th on the Sunday Times Hiscox Tech Track, a league table documenting Britain’s fastest growing tech organisations. The suppliers of software to the online gambling industry, has been recognised for its growth and successes since inception five years ago. The Newcastle upon Tyne headquartered firm’s platform, for operators within the gambling industry, and currently powering some …
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The Sunday Times has ranked online betting exchange Smarkets as the second fastest growing UK private technology enterprise for its ‘2017 Tech Track 100’ index. The company which reported a 280% annual sales rise over three years was beaten to the top of the Sunday Times tech index by children’s ‘digital personalised book publisher Wonderbly. Led by CEO and Founder …
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UK newspaper The Sunday Times has named Betfair Chief Executive Breon Corcoran as “Business Person of the Year 2015”. In a special feature written by The Times leisure correspondent Peter Evans and titled “Gambling Geek”, Corcoran details his tenure to date as leader of Betfair, which has seen the CEO transform the operator from its 2011 post IPO decline into …
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Irish racehorse and stud rights magnet John (JP) McManus is seeking to $5.2 million from the US government, claiming that gambling winnings of $17.5 million were wrongly taxed. McManus one of Ireland’s richest businessmen (ranked 12th richest Irishman according to the Sunday Times), has filed a federal claim with US courts, seeking to recover the money on gambling winnings made …
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UK business news sources have reported that 888 Holdings are preparing a £1 billion takeover of igaming and sports betting operator bwin.party. The news, follows last Friday’s media conformation by rival operator GVC Holdings of its acquisition interest in purchasing bwin.party entertainment in its entirety. The 888 bid would likely be treated as a reverse takeover as bwin.party has a …
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Billionaire brothers David and Simon Rueben co-owners of Arena Racing UK, have featured as the highest placed Brits in the 2015 Sunday Times Rich List. The Sunday newspaper estimates the brothers to be worth a combined £9.7 billion. The Rueben brothers are reported to have earned an additional £700 million in 2014, through diverse investments in property, digital services and …
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iGaming technology provider OpenBet, has earned a One Star accreditation in the 2015 Sunday Times Best Companies to Work For Survey. The achievement means that the London-based supplier is classified as a ‘very good’ employer. The ranking system starts at Ones to Watch, includes One Star and Two Star, and peaks at Three Star, with many entrants achieving no accreditation. “To receive …
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. The Sunday Times reports that shareholder pressure is mounting on Ladbrokes Chief Executive Richard Glynn The Newspaper claims that a group of top-level shareholders of Ladbrokes are currently waiting on the publishing of the operators interim financial report . The Shareholders will than ask the board to remove Glynn from company operations. According to the Ladbrokes consensus forecast, revenues …
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