App crashes and is down for hours on opening Sunday There must have been a few red faces at ESPN over the weekend when the company's fantasy sports app crashed and was down for hours on the opening Sunday of the new NFL season. The incident achieved wide social and other media coverage, with ESPN apologising to punters and attributing...
Combined resources with AEG will help to "broaden the reach of eSports around the world" The eSports league tournament organiser ESL has reached out to the traditional sports world as it expands ever faster, and has inked a deal with US sports event company AEG, according to a report in VentureBeat. AEG operates more than 120 venues around the globe,...
Association's infographic on the NFL season kick-off gets wide mainstream coverage The American Gaming Association's increasingly aggressive campaign for the legalisation of sports betting at state levels in the United States received a major boost as the current NFL season got underway this week. Using social media and other channels, the Association drew attention to an infographic on its educated...
Land gambling trade association urges media to support its drive for federal legalisation The American Gaming Association has used social media and other channels to urge US media to "jump on board" its drive to legalise sports betting in the United States, highlighting a Neilsen study that suggests that if sports betting was legalised the number of regular season viewers...
Land gambling magnate objects to the vertical on moral grounds In a follow up to an earlier Yahoo interview discussing his plan to build a new $1.9 billion football stadium and bring the Oakland Raiders to Las Vegas, land gambling mogul Sheldon Adelson left no room for doubt on his antipathy to daily fantasy sports, which appears to be as...
Social interactivity in Challenge feature St. Louis-based Android software developer Tesseract Mobile has added a Challenge feature to its Solitaire Free Pack and Solitaire MegaPack apps for Android. "The idea came from a customer request," Laura Ockel, co-founder of Tesseract Mobile said. "And that sounded really awesome to me. Imagine being able to share that winnable hand of Aces Up...
12-month deal will see mobile gambling operator featured across selected reality programming Gaming Realms' mobile gambling subsidiary Slingo has announced a television sponsorship deal with E! Entertainment Television that will commence this (September) month and run for twelve months across reality TV channels like Keeping Up With The Kardashians, Total Divas and Hollywood Medium with Tyler Henry. The features will...
Wholly owned interactive social gaming subsidiaries designated as "unrestricted subsidiaries under its debt agreements." A statement issued Wednesday by the Scientific Games land and online gambling supplier boosted its share price by 22.2 percent in a clear indication that investors like what they are seeing from the new management of Kevin Sheehan. The announcement that created all this positivity detailed...
No name yet for Phil Galfond's new venture, but it will be player-centred High stakes online and live poker ace Phil Galfond lit up the online media this week with his disclosure that he plans to start a real-money online poker operation through his RunItOnce training enterprise. Galfond does not yet have name for the new site and has not...
Granfantasysports is powered by EZFantasy software The Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe, a Minnesota tribal organisation which operates the Grand Casino Hinckley, has announced the launch of its first venture into the daily fantasy sports sector, an enterprise branded Granfantasysports.com with software from EZFantasy, payment facilities from PayPal and statistical sports content from Sportradar US. Sign-ups are accepted only from...
