iGaming Business – National US daily newspaper USA Today has unveiled plans to launch a fantasy sports gaming website that will focus on daily tournament-style games. According to the Adage.com website, Fantasy Score will allow players to compete in daily fantasy NFL American football games, with games involving NBA basketball, NHL ice hockey and MLB baseball due to be introduced in the coming months. The new service will initially earn revenue from selling display adverts and native advertising, sponsorship and game management fees. Mark Pesavento, vice-president of innovation at the USA Today Sports Media Group, said that once a certain…

Operator CG Technologies has launched an upgrade to its mobile sports betting app that developers said increases the opportunities for customers to bet on games. CG Technologies CEO Lee Amaitis said the company, which operates race and sports books at eight Las Vegas resorts, generates roughly 60 percent of its wagers from its mobile wagering application. The company has operated mobile sports wagering since 2012 and has some 20,000 registered users. Last year, more than $3.5 billion was wagered in Nevada sports books. Amaitis expects the upgraded application, which was softly launched last week, to grow the company’s percentage of…

With his veto pen, Gov. Chris Christie all but ended the New Jersey sports betting efforts to institute sports betting at its casinos and race tracks. Christie’s office announced today that he nixed a bill (S2250) that would have allowed New Jersey to circumvent the 1992 federal law that bans sports betting in most states, after New Jersey’s challenges to the law in court failed. In doing so, Christie called federal law “sacrosanct,” while the sponsor of the bill, state Sen. Raymond Lesniak, said Christie “stuck a dagger in the heart of Atlantic City and our ailing horse racing industry.”…

iGaming Business – UK bookmaker William Hill has extended an agreement with Musselburgh Racecourse to continue its title sponsorship of the Scottish Sprint Cup annual horseracing event. The deal will run for three years, from 2015 until 2017. The £100,000 (€124,855/$170,210) five-furlong race is hosted at the Musselburgh Racecourse each year and is regarded as the venue’s showpiece event. The race will continue to be known as the £100,000 William Hill Scottish Sprint Cup under the terms of the deal. The agreement will strengthen William Hill’s Scottish sports sponsorship portfolio, which also includes the Ayr Gold Cup Festival horseracing event…

iGaming Business – Online gaming operator 32Red has completed the re-launch of its sports betting platform 32Red Sport in time for this summer’s Fifa World Cup national team football tournament. The sports betting platform will be fully managed by Kambi Group after 32Red struck a deal with the sports betting services business-to-business supplier earlier this year. According to the SBCNews.com website, the re-launched service will target new and existing sports betting customers with a range of special World Cup promotions. The new product will also be promoted through 32Red’s sponsorship of Scottish Championship second-tier football club Rangers. Ed Ware, chief…

Just in time for kickoff at the World Cup 2014, online betting fans who are fed up with the limitations of ordinary sports betting apps can now download the unique new no-cost app “Online Betting” from Bola Webinformation, and take their hobby or profession to a whole new level. Available for both Android and iOS devices, “Online Betting” provides bettors of all experience levels – from those who are new to the practice, to those who have been betting for decades – with a full platform of tools to help them bet their way to success on matches at the…

This week the biggest sporting tournament in the world kicks off and you’d have had to be living the life of a hermit not to know that the 2014 FIFA World Cup is taking place in Brazil. Everyone and everything, it seems, has turned into a World Cup version of itself, and bingo’s no exception. Many of the different bingo sites are offering a choice of World Cup themed games that you can enjoy during the build-up to the matches, or on the days that there aren’t any real World Cup games taking place. Winner Bingo has a blog where…

Intergame Online – With the big kick-off in Brazil 2014 just a few days away, the world’s first licensed bitcoin-only sportsbook, BetVIP.com, has gone live. BetVIP takes bets and pays out exclusively in bitcoin and only accepts wagers in regulated markets. “BetVIP is not a PR stunt – it is a long-term business venture,” said founder Daniel Schwartzkopff. “Our gaming licence and strict bet acceptance policy demonstrates our commitment to the longevity of the currency,” he added. “There is a massive opportunity to provide both a secure and reliable platform for bitcoin holders and take on the traditional online sportsbooks.”…