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Melbourne company has five licensees
The management of Betoptions Limited, an Australian developer of race and sports wagering technology solutions for the international gaming and betting sectors, has announced that the company is being put up for sale.
The reasons for the sale appear to be the withdrawal of a major shareholder.
The Melbourne-based firm claims it is ‘profitable with positive cash flow’ and currently has fiv...
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Just in time for the football World Cup action…
RedKings.com has started taking World Cup bets through its new online sports betting brand BetRedKings.
The launch of BetRedKings.com includes live betting, competitive odds, a free World Cup Predictor game with cash prizes and a series of $1000 World Cup f...
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Agreement creates a unique new blend of Asian and European betting styles
Exchange and sportsbook software provider Global Betting Exchange (GBE) has announced it will provide Samvo International Ltd., a major online betting and gaming group, with its iBroker sportsbook software.
The deal enables Alderney-based Samvo to display its own Asian handicap markets alongside iBroker-man...
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Special task forces, cyber-patrols and service provider enquiries all planned
The police in Hong Kong have issued a strong pubic warning that they intend to be on the lookout for illegal gambling on the football World Cup, which kicks off in South Africa June 11.
Although gambling is a popular activity in Hong Kong, it is strictly controlled. Bettin...
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Alleged head of Lucchese crime family’s online gambling operation detained
The New Jersey Attorney General’s office has confirmed a key arrest in an ongoing investigation into the Lucchese crime family interests in internet sports betting.
NJ.com reports that Brian R. Cohen (61), who is thought to be the head of the Lucchese family...
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Stand by for a betting advert blitz....
In what has been described as its biggest single advertising push yet, British gambling group Ladbrokes is about to launch a GBP 5 million marketing campaign to capitalise on the World Cup football, which
kicks off in South Africa June 11.
Starting this weekend, the television and print media blitz will seek t...
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With international football's biggest event starting in just 15 days, German punters will be looking for better action elsewhere
German punters frustrated by their country's insistence on maintaining a state monopoly stranglehold on gambling, with inferior options and odds on offer, will probably be tempted to visit more competitive fo...
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30 percent rise in third quarter NGR
Gilt-tinged third quarter results from its Australian operations has enabled online gambling group Sportingbet to deliver another set of strong performance numbers to its shareholders despite the economic difficulties in the Greek and Spanish economies.
Results from Dow...
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IBISWorld research numbers show that sports betting has been the fastest-growing sector of the gambling industry over the past five years
Research studies by IBISWorld analysts have shown that betting on sports has been the fastest-growing sector in the Australian gambling industry over the past five years, reports the Sydney Morning Herald, with Australians wagering a predicted A$2....
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ARJEL says its target is first two weeks of June
Online gambling operators who have been anxiously watching the progress of the new French regulator ARJEL will be relieved to hear that it is confident it will "deliver first agreements to operators in the first two weeks of June," meaning that French betting on the World Cup will be possible.
RapidTV news reports that the regulator...
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Over ten sports covered in spread betting firm’s offer
The UK-based spread betting firm Spreadex has expanded into the online sports betting arena with a range of markets covering more than ten sports.
The company’s prices reflect predictions or 'spreads' on the outcome of numerous situations from the combined total of the goal scorers' shirt numbers in football to the score at t...
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Argentinian football ace does some juggling
The UK-based online casino operation Totesport Casino.com launched a television advertising campaign in Britain this week featuring Argentinean football ace Marcos Perez.
According to the marketing publication Drum, the campaign was created for Totesport by the Birmi...
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With the football World Cup on the immediate horizon, a new drive to break the monopoly
The Right2Bet initiative that encourages business equity in European online gambling regulation reports in its latest circular that Germany’s Olympic Sports Federation has called upon the government to leg...
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Londonmarketing company predicts a 700 percent rise in online spend
Online betting on the football World Cup in South Africa starting next (June) month could reach GBP 500 million, according to the London-based marketing company Latitude Digital.
The company predicts a 700 percent rise in online spend compared to the amount gambled during the previous tournament held in Germany in 2006 following the emergence of ‘laptop loungers...
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