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«Социальные медиа здесь всерьез и надолго, – сообщил Глинн в интервью для Daily Mail. – В регулировании деятельности в этой сфере есть определенные вопросы, к которым стоит подходить с особой осторожностью, и мы воспринимаем ответственность, которая ляжет на наши плечи, всерьез. Но это феноменальное явление. Это среда, в которую мы обязаны попасть, хотя мы все еще не пересекли Рубикон».Тем временем, конкурент Ladbrokes, компания 888 Holdings совместно с Facebook планирует запустить в этом году ряд игровых предложений на реальные деньги, открывая,...
A multibillion-dollar EuroVegas casino resort will be built in the outskirts of Madrid, hopefully bringing much-needed jobs and investment, officials from Spain and Las Vegas Sands casinos said last Friday. Madrid's regional government president, Ignacio Gonzalez, said Eurovegas will occupy an area equivalent to 750 football fields in the suburb city of Alcorcon and the first phase of construction will begin late this year. Building the entire complex just south of Madrid is likely to take up to 18 years...
Start-ups will be quizzed and drilled by renowned investors such as Josh Hannah of Matrix Partners, Steven Schlenker of DN Capital and Ben Sternberg of The Raine Group. But it will be up to the combined GiGse and ScS audience to choose the winner in interactive voting. Ben Sternberg, LaunchPad judge, said about his involvement in the LaunchPad: ‘Raine has been deeply engaged in the social casino industry, having sold Double Down Interactive and Buffalo Studios last year. At GiGse,...
RussianGaming Week 2013 expo will be held on 5-6 June at SokolnikiExhibition and Convention Centre, in Moscow, Russia. Theexhibition will feature new lines of business, legitimate gambling business solutions,presentations of the full range of products from the CIS and beyond. In view ofthe fact that over the last year, many changes have affected the gaming zones inRussia (some of them were closed and others reached the new level ofdevelopment), among our exhibitors are the representatives of Russian gamblingzones who will...
The social casino vertical is getting crowded with new games being launched every day and game development powerhouses rushing to tap into this winning category, which has even more sophisticated game design. At the same time, the many acquisitions made by the likes of IGT, Caesars, Aristocrat, Gamesys and 888, launches on Facebook, partnerships between social game developers and iGaming operators (Plumbee and Sportingbet) and the 40-plus cooperation deals that IGT-powered DoubleDown casino has signed, keep fuelling the debate on...