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Playtech have recently announced an expansion with long-term partners SkillOnNet to become the exclusive bingo provider for the operator in both the UK and Mexico. A new brand called Zingo Bingo will be launched, while flagship names such as PlayOjo and PlayUZU will also be included in the exclusive deal. This long-standing partnership, which dates back to 2021, is going from strength to strength...
The Department of Consumer Protection Gaming Division in Connecticut has issued a warning to the public regarding an emerging scheme connected to DraftKings. According to officials, the scheme targets gaming operators and “promises a big payoff but could result in your arrest for identity theft, computer crimes and larceny charges.” A total of 15 arrests have been made by the Gaming Division so...
FanDuel and DraftKings have tendered their resignation from the American Gaming Association (AGA), effective immediately. Their decision has set a milestone in the current timeline of American gambling operators, underlining the split between state-regulated gambling markets and the jurisdiction afforded to federally regulated prediction markets. With these two major players in the gambling...
A new study by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) has revealed high levels of sports betting abuse towards student athletes. The organization, which includes more than 500,000 college athletes across three divisions, says 36% of Division I men’s basketball student athletes reported experiencing social media abuse related to sports betting within the last year. A further 29%...
The Dutch Gaming Authority, also known as Kansspelautoriteit, has issued a notice to Tulipa Ent Limited for “violating the Prevention of Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Act, the Wwwft.” The company offers gambling in the Netherlands under the brand names ComeOn and Get Lucky. Within the notice, which has been made public via the gambling organizations website, it states that the client...
It's hard to pay attention to the business of journalism without hearing about data journalism or data-driven journalism. But despite all the discussion of the topic, there's precious little documentation to guide practicing and future journalists in becoming proficient in it. The Data Journalism Handbook aims to fix that, albeit at a high...
Easily the largest contributors to ReadWriteWeb's overall traffic on any given day include technology news aggregation services, one of them being Techmeme. It's a service that pulls interesting headlines from amid the ever-flowing sea of content, and compiles them into an amalgamated front page of what's happening; it's directed toward a specific audience, which Techmeme hopes includes you. It...
A scrappy company to help journalists dig into Big Data has come into its own in the past year, including the requisite all-night hacking codeathon this week at the Investigative Reporters and Editors Computer-Assisted Reporting Conference in St. Louis. The company is called ScraperWiki.com and was started by Julian Todd and Aidan McGuire, two U.K.-based analysts who have been long involved in...
WordPress has released version 2.0 of its Android app for mobile blogging, and as a WordPress for iOS user, I am jealous. The new app launches with a screen that covers just about every first action a mobile blogger needs. It's arranged in correct order of priority, and it uses a big, easily tappable grid of buttons with an "action bar" over the top to handle the rest. Other additions are...
News and activity feeds are more alive today than ever before, even as engagement with their simplest format, Really Simple Syndication (RSS), appears to be waning. What were the Top 10 Most Awesome RSS...