The team behind the Bookee app are back with a new app Swipe six months after the unforeseen closure of the swipe-to-bet application. Their latest product is a free-to-play predictor game which maintains the swiping element that proved a popular engagement with Bookee and asks users to make predictions on up-coming sporting events within its native app. A round of correct …
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Adam Wilson, Co-founder of swipe-to-bet mobile app Bookee, said that his enterprise is in a healthy condition and will return to business once the start-up finds a new platform provider. Bookee has been forced to cease UK operations following the decision by its platform supplier EveryMatrix to terminate its B2C licences for remote betting and casino services. The UK Gambling …
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The UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) has this afternoon confirmed the licence suspension of industry platform and systems supplier EveryMatrix Ltd, enforced with immediate effect. The UKGC undertakes its decision following a review of ‘compliance activity’ examining the technology incumbent’s ‘customer interaction frameworks’. In its update, the UKGC states that it has undertaken its suspension in-line with Section 18.2 of the …
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Swipe-to-bet mobile app Bookee has confirmed that it has completed its successful migration onto EveryMatrix’s full-suite of platform provisions, as the company seeks to become the best application for recreational betting audiences. The mobile incumbent, which operates under the tagline ‘the tinder of sports betting’, originally sought a binary integration of EveryMatrix’s OddsMatrix sportsbook and MoneyMatrix payment provisions. However, following …
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Former Adjarabet CMO Lasha Machavariani will provide an overview of gambling in the region of CIS and Georgia, the history behind the regulated market in the region, and an update on the major players and opportunities in the country at next week’s SBC Betting Forum. A long-term ambassador for SBC Global, Machavariani is one of 15 leading industry speakers taking to the stage in the inaugural …
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More than 15 leading industry speakers will take to the stage in the inaugural SBC Betting Forum at this year’s iGaming Super Show in Amsterdam (11-14 July). SBC Events has joined forces with iGaming Business to create a dedicated one-day sports betting conference at the Amsterdam RAI on 12 July, while also providing a meeting place for the industry to …
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Bookee has built on its ‘Tinder for betting’ mobile app by introducing Splitbet, an Uber-style split fare concept which allows friends to share the risk and reward of placing a bet. On Splitbet, users can choose to share a stake with a list of contacts already using the app, or choose the option to invite a friend to download the …
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Industry start-up Bookee has been awarded the ‘Brightest Minds Showcase’ at the 2016 iGaming Entrepreneur Conference (8 December Grange Hotel London). Pitching to a panel of industry experts, Bookee which describes itself as the ‘Tinder for betting app’ won the contest ahead of 12 rivals competing for the top prize of a ‘mentoring and professional’ services package worth more than …
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Mobile first sports betting start-up Bookee enters the market launching its unique swipe-to-bet app. The new industry player states that it wants to introduce the betting consumers to a ‘true 21st-century gaming experience’, bringing its ‘Tinder for betting’ concept to market. The Bookee app offers users a randomised ‘deck’ of suggested small-stake personally-selected bets on a range of sports, giving …
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