Bloomberg – Roughly 100 percent of lottery tickets are currently sold by retailers—gas stations, supermarkets, or convenience stores—that do little more than print tickets with numbers. It was only a matter of time before someone made apps for that process. Shoutz, an Austin (Tex.)-based startup, announced an agreement Tuesday with the Mega Millions lottery that will bring the game to its LotteryHUB mobile app, which launched in September with the rival Powerball lottery game. Now the two largest forces in the $78 billion per year U.S. lottery industry will share a mobile platform that covers the vast majority of the country,…

iGaming Business – LiveSport Media has acquired the website SoccerStand.com from the Danish betting software company Enetpulse for an undisclosed amount. The SoccerStand site will form part of LiveSport Media’s stable of sports sites “that are visited by more than 40 million unique visitors from all over the world, (and) generates over 1.5 billion impressions per-month”, the group said. LiveSport Media’s flagship platform is its multi-lingual live scores project FlashScore.com, which features live scores and information, statistics and videos from a range of sports. The SoccerStand site has undergone a complete redesign, with the buyout fitting into LiveSport Media’s strategy…

iGaming Business – Gaming content supplier Realistic Games has launched two new five-reel slots in the form of ‘Riverboat Gambler’ and ‘Snapshot’. Delivered by the firm’s in-house ReGaL server, the new titles will be available to both new and existing customers on mobile, tablet and desktop. Riverboat Gambler offers players the chance to win a top prize of 2,000 times the total stake while the 20-line Snapshot title features a jackpot of 500 times the total stake. In addition to the new launches, Realistic Games has also announced that its ‘Wild Safari’ slot title has been tailored for mobile and…

Las Vegas Sun – Internet poker hasn’t proved so far to be the bonanza some had hoped for. The first monthly report on online poker gaming win showed it exceeded only bingo compared to other casino games, slot machines and sports betting. The state Gaming Control Board today approved applications from six companies to extend their internet poker, licenses which were to expire if the companies did not start the games online in Nevada within six months. “People are weighing the market,” said A.G. Burnett, board chairman. Ellen Whittemore, attorney for MGM Resorts Online – one of the companies granted…

iGaming Business – The city of Sault Ste. Marie in the Canadian province of Ontario has created a new digital gaming task force as part of an effort to develop and advance the online gambling industry. The Digital Gaming Taskforce will provide strategic direction to further enable the community to take advantage of its strengths to develop projects and implement an investment attraction strategy. The new division will be run by the Sault Ste. Marie Economic Development Corporation in partnership with the Sault Ste. Marie Innovation Centre. The group will consist of Tom Marinelli, acting chief executive officer of Ontario…

iGaming Business – Online gambling company Betfair has agreed a two-year deal with the Chester Race Company to become the official Wi-Fi and digital gaming partner of UK horseracing venue Chester Racecourse. The agreement, which covers the 2014 and 2015 seasons, will also include Chester Race Company’s nearby Bangor-on-Dee Racecourse. The ‘Always on Campaign’ partnership will be powered by Wi-Fi from UK telecommunications provider O2. Chester Racecourse successfully trialled O2 Wi-Fi during the 2013 horseracing season and has now opted to push ahead with the Betfair deal. In addition to the Wi-Fi agreement, Betfair will also sponsor four races at the…