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Paddy Power’s Oz launch; Hills to leave Spain; Bwin Q1s

By admin on Thursday, May 14th, 2009 at 8:46 pm

Paddy Power has launched in Australia with the AUD48.5m purchase of a controlling stake in Australian bookmaker Sportsbet (more). In unrelated news, Paddy Power’s Spanish website is now refusing bets on bullfighting after pressure from campaign groups (more).

William Hill is withdrawing from its year-old joint venture in Spain with Codere, its second withdrawal from southern Europe in less than a year (more).

Bwin has released first quarter results showing net gaming revenue of €102.1m, up 11% on the same period in 2008 (more).

Dragonfish has launched a new Spanish bingo network, El Cartonazo, for its partner Daub Limited. The network will offter 90- and 75-ball rooms and quickplay games and daily free bingo.

GTECH sports betting software subsidiary Finsoft has integrated games from the WagerWorks portfolio onto its MarginMaker GamesRoom platform, allowing operators such as Betfred, Stan James, Boylesports and Sportingbet will now be able to offer WagerWorks branded titles.

Finsoft has also concluded a deal with football gaming business Sportech to distribute Sportech’s football pool products in licensed betting outlets (LBOs) belonging to two of Finsoft’s UK-based LBO clients and across two bookmaker chains in eastern Europe.

ID-verification company 192business has launched a new German ID check solution using data sources including German credit-agency Schufa (more).

Clarification: Entertasia is acting purely as a software provider for Fun88, its latest launch, not “as the in-house marketing agency for Fun88” as was written in yesterday’s snapshot.

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