Sports News
93.7 percent y-on-y surge reported
The power and convenience of the Internet was demonstrated again this week when the Czech gambling operator Sazkapresented an operational update that showed a year-on-year increase of 93.7 percent in revenues, attributed by management to the launch of online operations.
The Prague-based firm revealed a 93.7 percent year-on-year increase in revenues from odds betting following the launch of an o...
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Internet gambling giant agrees to a further two seasons
The major UK online sports book and gaming operator Sportingbet.com has announced the extension of its existing shirt sponsorship deal with English Premier League football club Wolverhampton Wanderers for a...
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Good news for Vincent Tan’s Ascot Sports
Malaysian football fans will be able to bet on their favourite international teams, although not on the World Cup, following a relaxation in the country’s strict...
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Berjaya to acquire control of a familiar brand
Remember Vincent Tan’s online sports betting venture Ascot Sports? Back in 2006-2007 the brand gained prominence in the online gambling business in Europe with Ascot Sports.com and lat...
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Heard about the “Capello Index?” Read on!
Fabio Capello, the coach for England’s World Cup soccer team, has temporarily shelved his venture into online gaming with a player ratings gaming branded “The Capello Index.”
Earlier this week the Italian football guru revealed that he had teamed up wi...
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Aussie gambling group launches a tote betting app on the App Store
The Australian gambling group Tabcorp has joined the rush to launch an iPhone service, announcing a tote betting app available for download from Apple’s iTunes App Store, and titled TAB Sportsbet iPhone.
Tabcorp boasts some 300 000 registered players, who will now be able to wager via Tabcorp’s mobile phone betting site at tab.mobi on NSW and Victorian TAB totili...
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Facebook among the sites being monitored, police chief reveals
A senior Indonesian police officer has revealed that using Facebook to facilitate online gambling on the upcoming football World Cup is likely to catch the eye of special police monitors.
"We will find out whether vi...
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Company lawyer details Betfair’s practical measures to defeat cheating
"There is an awful lot of money sloshing around football, and where you have a lot of money you can have a lot of crime," Matthew Johnson, head of legal regulation at the UK Football Association told told the C5 conference on Sports Law and Business last week.
Reporting on the confe...
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Betting application accepted by App Store
Online gambling group Betfair is claiming something of a coup on the acceptance by the iPhone App Store of its betting exchange product.
The app is among the latest to become available at App Store, which has over a hundred thousand apps in its inventory covering...
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New activities for French social networking site Tchatche.com
Index Multimedia, a subsidiary of Japanese company Index Holdings with interests inEurope, is to beef up the interest-levels in its French social networking website Tchatche.com by adding a sports betting element.
The company is teaming up with French online sports betting provider France Pari in a strategic co-brandin...
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US Supreme Court rules against state’s sports betting lottery expansion
The US Supreme Court has ruled against an appeal by the state of Delaware to expand its sports-betting lottery beyond professional football games, dashing the hopes of the state’s three slot parlours to add full-on sports betting to their intra-state offering.
Earlier, Delaware governor Jack Markell and the r...
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Metro to use FSB Technology live performance ratings for Metro Free World Cup Fantasy Football competition
Timing its initiative to coincide with the real-world football World Cup this year, the ubiquitous free UK newspaper Metro is partnering with FSB Technology on its Metro Free World Cup Fantasy Football competition....
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Live betting turnover at Victor Chandler has risen by 300 percent in six weeks
Actions speak louder than marketing hype, and software provider Zukido will be more than pleased with the endorsement that its involvement with online sports betting ope...
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Benefits of accurate online tracking and monitoring again illustrated
The honesty services of the Australian wing of the giant betting exchange Betfair are again being used by a major sports body, this time the National Rugby League in Australia.
Betfair uses its sophisticated tracking and monitoring capabilities to flag any suspicious betting patterns...
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Just in time for the football World Cup action...
Watch out for the full launch in the near future of Ubecha.com, a new Ireland-based sports betting site whose owners plan to be in full operation by the football World Cup starting in June 2010.
Presently in Beta test mode on a very professional-looking animated website, the Ubecha platform allows users to play fantasy sports and...
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