Lucy Buckley, a rising executive at Inspired Gaming Group, supplier of SBG Video Lottery and Virtual Sports, has been recognised in Global Gaming Business’s “40 under 40” list. As an additional accolade, Buckley has been promoted from Marketing Director to a new role as Director of Strategy and Communications at Inspired, in recognition for her contribution to the business over the …
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Inspired Gaming Group will be showcasing new premium HD VLT games and Virtual Sports for the UK LBO industry at The Bookmakers Trade Fair 2014 on Thursday 9 October. Visitors to BOS will have the opportunity to use Inspired’s new Virtual Sports Bet Management System (BMS), BetBox, which enables any betting, gaming or lottery operator to add a schedule of …
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LB O supplier SIS has been appointed as the official data partner of the Liga de Futbol Profesional (LFP) to collect and exclusively distribute live data from the Spanish leagues to the betting industry. Liga BBVA, won last season by Atletico Madrid ahead of Barcelona and Real Madrid, is watched by more than 300 million viewers across the globe. The …
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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 …
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GTECH’s sports betting operations in Italy grew by 26.6% in the last quarter, which the firm has attributed to the FIFA World Cup, the introduction of virtual betting in the country and a stable payout percentage. Sports Betting saw revenues grow to €40.1m in Q2 from €31.7m for the same period in 2013, with turnover also jumping 22.9% to €218m. …
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Casino games developer Yggdrasil Gaming has hired an experienced business development director, after opening a new hub in Gibraltar. The group, which specialises in slots and lottery games, as well as pooled progressive jackpots, expanded its senior team with the appointment of online gaming expert Ulf Norder. Norder joins the company following demand for casino and lottery games content from …
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Racecourse Data Company (RDC) has announced that Timeform has been appointed a distributor of official British horseracing Pre-Race Data (PRD) up to the end of 2018. PRD is generated by Weatherbys and is the key component of information required to take a bet. It includes information on a racecard, such as final fields, owners, trainers, jockeys, weights, colours, draw and …
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Online operator Unibet has gone live with Yggdrasil Gaming’s innovative casino games content. Yggdrasil’s portfolio contains a variety of popular casino games including new fast high-roller video slot Winterberries, its already established success Jokerizer slot that is also available on mobile, as well as Lotto7, a unique daily lottery draw and progressive game where players will play for a €2.5 …
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Sportradar has integrated its soccer data feeds into the Onefootball application for mobile devices. The cooperation with the world’s leading mobile football community, based in Berlin, started on June 1st 2014. With coverage of over 100 countries, 240+ soccer leagues and 40 languages, Sportradar provides the broadest soccer coverage in the market. From now on, Sportradar’s Live Scores, Live Sports Centre and Statistics solutions will be integrated …
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SBC’s Affiliate and Marketing Correspondent Marc Pedersen asks why the industry is still so protective over player data that could be mutually beneficial. Speaking at the May Betting on Football Conference, Better Collective’s Head of Marketing Andreas Phillipsen, eloquently described igaming’s current data distribution between operators and marketing partners as ‘black box relationships’. These three words combined expertly to explain …
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