Yahoo Sportsbook, powered by BetMGM, has been launched on Yahoo Sports allowing fans nationwide to view betting odds across a variety of sports. Users of legal age in the state of New Jersey, meanwhile, can click through the odds to place bets on BetMGM. In a press release, Yahoo says …
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Italy plans to shrink online gaming market The online gaming industry continues to grow worldwide but is facing some hurdles in Italy, as the government there plans to set measures to reduce the iGaming segment and cut down licences in the country from 85 to 50 by 2023. Italy’s Five …
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Betting and Gaming Council (BGC), the new representative body for the UK gambling industry, has developed a new ‘cooling-off’ feature for gaming machines across UK betting shops in a bid to support responsible gambling measures. The newly-formed group uses the Anonymous Player Awareness System (APAS), a real-time algorithm developed over …
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Swintt, the casino games provider launched earlier this year, has announced a licensing agreement with Gaming Innovation Group (GiG), which it lauds as “a landmark deal”. The deal will allow for the distribution of more than 50 games from the Swintt catalogue, including successful land-based titles such as ‘Master of …
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Swedish gambling operator Svenska Spel has donated more than SEK50m (€4.7m) to grassroots sports in the country for the seventh consecutive year as part of its Gräsroten initiative. The donation marks the seventh consecutive year that the gambling operator has supported grassroots sports across the country. Funding was distributed to …
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DraftKings Inc. a leader in the sports technology and entertainment space, and Sportradar, the world’s leading global provider of sports data and content, officially announced a long-term partnership extension, in which Sportradar will continue to be DraftKings’ supplier for data feeds and bet stimulation content. As part of the extended …
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Online gambling operator Global Gaming has failed in its effort to overturn a decision to strip its SafeEnt subsidiary of its Swedish licence after the country’s Administrative Court rejected an appeal. The Swedish Gambling Authority (Spelinspektionen), revoked Global Gaming’s licences for both commercial online gambling and betting this past June, …
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Leading software provider Playtech has entered into a new partnership with GVC Holdings, the owner of Bwin and Ladbrokes, to launch Elevation, a new, dedicated live casino studio for the operator. The studio will launch with GVC’s brands over the next two months offering five blackjack tables and a roulette …
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Betting operator Parimatch has launched its latest marketing campaign with former two-weight UFC champion and company brand ambassador, Conor McGregor. Irish Mixed Martial Artist is at the heart of a campaign named ‘A new epic story’, which was created by Canadian director Angelo Merten and French cameraman Charlie Bravo. The …
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Sports betting brand Bwin is going to quit from Russia’s online gambling market, as its parent company, A&NN Investments, is looking to unload its licence in the country. According to news outlets, the operator of the Bwin.ru website has been in talks to offload the operation and sell its licence …
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The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) is going to block access to illegal gambling websites hosted offshore in cooperation with internet service providers (ISPs). The authority will investigate suspect sites and, if unable to take enforcement action order internet providers to block them. ACMA recently saw its powers expanded …
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Gaming operator ComeOn has launched its flagship brand www.comeon.com in Denmark after receiving a five-year gaming licence earlier this year from the Danish gaming authority. Cherry AB-owned operator offers both casino and sports betting in what is representing the operator’s first offering to be made available to Danish players. ComeOn …
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The Hellenic Competition Commission (HCC) has given its approval to OPAP’s pending acquisition of majority stake in online bookmaker Stoiximan Group. OPAP is going to acquire a 51 per cent stake in Stoiximan for €95 million, a Greek and Cypriot online sportsbook property operated by Malta-based European online gambling group …
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Asian sports betting operator, Ballbet has announced basketball legend Allen “The Answer” Iverson as its new brand ambassador. Confirming the partnership, the firm emphasised that Iverson, one of the greatest basketball players with a distinctive style of play and a rich legacy, shares similar values as Ballbet. Iverson will work …
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Ten of the UK’s top gambling firms have announced their commitment to five responsible gambling measures as part of an effort to prevent the current government from imposing new, stricter regulations on the sector. The CEOs from Aspers, bet365, Caesars, Flutter Entertainment, Genting, GVC Holdings, Playtech, Rank Group, Sky Betting …
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Sportsbook and daily fantasy sports operator DraftKings has agreed to a partnership with the National Basketball Association (NBA) that will make the company an “authorised sports betting operator” of the league. DraftKings will be the NBA’s second authorized sports betting operator, following William Hill, which agreed a similar deal with …
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STS, Poland’s biggest betting operator, has signed up legendary goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel as its new brand ambassador. The former Manchester United and Denmark stopper will drive the operator’s new ‘Bet with the leaders’ campaign and serve as a global ambassador for the campaign, which also includes a refreshed logo and …
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The Gambling Related Harm All-Party Parliamentary Group (GRH APPG) has requested that a £2 limit is introduced on all online slot machine games, similar to the maximum stake limit introduced for fixed-odds betting terminals (FOBTs). Their request to slash the stakes follows on a six-month review into the impacts of …
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Bethard launched a Spanish version of its website after receiving a licence from the Spanish regulator (DGOJ). The operator’s brand ambassador Zlatan Ibrahimović announced the launch of the site on his Twitter feed. The launch declaration follows several Ibrahimovic posts which were indicating his plans to come back to Spain …
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PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan has revealed that the North American golf circuit plans to launch on-site betting offerings at its events in the US from next year. The sport is one of the latest to have embraced sports betting following last year’s US Supreme Court ruling that effectively gave …
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