Bingo News
Below is a list of the latest bingo news.
Scratchcard provider will create scratchcard site Winnings.com.
The latest white label deal inked by online scratchcard games and white label provider Neogames will see the company launch a scratchcard website branded Winnings.com for Winnings Limited, a subsidiary of the Infomeda group.
Winnings Ltd., are experienced in both affiliate operations and SEO activity, augering well for the marketing of the new, 17 language website w...
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Live presentersand interactive bingo should attract the punters
The Better Bingo Network in the UK is adding some interesting new interactive features to its bingo rooms this week, including live presenters who interact directly with the punter on logging in. Players can chat with the presenter in real time via a bingo chat box on sites such as Crown Bingo, Deal or No Deal Bingo and Cr...
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New online bingo product to be developed for UK radio stations
The Heart group of UK radio stations is to have its own online bingo site following a deal signed with software provider and operator Gamesys this week.
Gamesys is well experienced in the online gambling industry, operating the po...
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Noone hurt in grenade attack on Intralot CEO's home
The weekend started with a bang at the Athens home of Intralot chief exec Constantinos Antonopoulos on Saturday when unknown attackers threw a hand grenade at his home.
Police swarmed over the house in the affluent northern suburb of Kifissia following the explosion, in which fortunately noone was harmed. A motive for the attack has yet to be established.
The online news pu...
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New trend is good for business
The popularity of scratchcards as another income stream has boomed in the past year, fuelled by player demand for something a little different on which to take a flutter.
The rapid growth of Neogames and its frequent new games releases is usually the first of the genre that comes to mind, but this week Prime Gaming released some interesting games and business information showing that there's room f...
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7th Heaven launched
The 7th Heaven is a brand new scratch card game launched this week by the prolific scratchcard specialists Neogames.
NeoGames' concept when developing The 7th Heaven was to create an online scratch card with design elements focused around the number 7 – a popular number used in the offline scratch card world in the UK.
In addition, the scratch card allows 7 games in 1 card, and is thus a multi scratch car...
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Regional courts decision on legality is overturned
The Italian Internet bingo scene is looking decidedly brighter this week following a positive Administrative Court of Appeal decision which overturned a lower court's suspension of the laws backing regulation of the game.
Last month a regional court in the Lazio area upset Italy's newly launched bingo regulatory regime and threw th...
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US giant teams with The Gamesys Group to offer a suite of free-to-play and real money casino games
The Montreal-based interactive division of US gambling giant Harrah's Entertainment has partnered with the Gamesys Group to develop an online gambling site feat...
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The brand that produced Susan Boyle is about to enter the online bingo sector
Rank plc online subsidiary Meccabingo.com has scored a marketing coup, snapping up a deal that will enable it to leverage the widely recognised "Britain’s Got Talent" brand - Britain's highest rated television talent show last (2009) year with audience ratings of over 13 million viewers, peaking at 18 million...
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Whalen appointed global technology chief at GTech
The major online and land gambling technology provider GTech has announced the appointment as Senior Vice-President: Global Technology Solutions of Matthew Whalen.
US-based GTech is a subsidiary of the Italian group Lottomatica, and Whalen's responsibilities include all aspects of its software development lifecycle including requirements gathering, implementations, customer accep...
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Ocean Pearl is a triple scratch game
The Malta-based scratchcard developer that appears to have dominated that gambling genre in a remarkably short space of time has released another new game.
Neogames released Ocean Pearl this week, restricting it to its white label and licensee partners’ VIP Exclusive Club members, who are given private access to newly launched games as well as extra bonus offers and promotions.
The new of...
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Reward for loyalty - a four bedroomed house with a car in the garage
Britain's biggest lottery winners yet, Nigel Page and Justine Laycock, generously acknowledged the 20 year loyalty of their house cleaner Denise Kelso this week, gifting her with their former GBP 400 000, four-bedroomed home and throwing in a car for good measure.
The winning lottery partners won GBP 56 million on the Euromillions lottery in February (see previ...
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Frelix continues to grow
The St Minver operated online bingo network owned by Frelix Entertainment, Online Bingo.eu, has added Spanish, Norwegian, and Swedish language sites this week in the shape of OnlineBingo.nu, OnlineBingo.es and OnlineBingo.se. It is not known what the position is with other bingo operations...
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Online bingo may be busy, but in the live sector halls have been closing
The latest British government report on live bingo makes for dismal reading, indicating that in contrast to a booming online business, the live sector is struggling.
Government statistics indicate that since 1997 the number of bingo halls in Great Britain has fallen from 650 to the current figue of 460. Over t...
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Attempt to sue government on cancelled lottery deal fails
The political cancellation of a proposed lottery in Thailand (see previous InfoPowa reports) continues to generate expensive fall-out among the companies involved. In the latest development, a company that sued the government to recover its losses has failed in its action.
The Bangkok Post reports that the Thai Supreme Court this week overturned a lower court ruling that...
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