Gaming Intelligence – The Israel Sports Betting Board (ISBB), the country’s sole licensed sports betting provider, has reported record income for 2013 with revenue up 7.3 per cent year-on-year. Total revenue rose to 1.92bn Israeli new shekels (NIS) or approximately €409m in 2013, with net profit climbing 1.2 per cent to NIS420m. The ISBB’s daily odds brand Winner remained the market-leading product with income up 3.8 per cent to NIS1.72bn, while its new horse race betting brand Racer, powered by La Française des Jeux subsidiaries Lotsys and LVS, generated income of NIS64m. SOURCE

Calvin Ayre – UK-based online bookmaker Bet365 has ceased providing services to player accounts based in the Philippines. Players from the country received notifications on February 19 saying that their Bet365 accounts were going to be closed on February 25. When asked about why it stopped offering its services in the Philippines, the company didn’t elaborate, opting only to say that it was made “following a review at Bet365.” The good news, or at least hopeful news for bettors in the Philippines, is that Bet365 left the door open on whether it can resume services in the country, saying that…

Calvin Ayre – A group of anti-gambling campaigners in Australia is threatening to launch a simulated sports betting website and mobile app specifically designed for kids as young as five years old. SimBet.com offers a tongue-in-cheek mission statement that sports betting is “only a problem for people that are no good at it!” Since “chances are that our kids are going to give it a go at some point,” SimBet feels duty bound to “teach our children about sports betting from a young age.” SimBet says it will launch its “innovative and child-friendly” site/app in February, offering “Sports Betting Fun…

Bitcoin sportsbook BitBook.biz has been offline for most of the day due to a Distributed Denial of Service attack. BitBook.biz acknowledged the attack on popular Bitcoin discussion forum Bitcointalk.org. SBR users are also discussing the outage in the Players Talk section of the SBR posting Forum. Users are also discussing the downtime at Reddit. BitBook.biz regarding the DDoS attack: “BitBook has been hit with a large DDoS attack that knocked out parts of our hosting provider’s data center. We are working with our hosting provider on restoring our service.” Online sportsbooks are often the target of web based attacks. DDoS…

Sports betting products and services provider Metric Gaming has signed a licensing agreement for its SuperLive sports betting platform with Latin American online gaming firm Ocho Gaming. Under the agreement, Metric will provide its SuperLive HTML5 mobile-optimised products to Ocho Gaming to support the roll out of its online gaming platform in Latin and South America. The products will initially cover the Liga MX and Primera Division football tournaments in Mexico and Peru, respectively. Additional regions, including several emerging markets in Africa, will also be served by the two companies as the business relationship expands. “SuperLive delivers a product that…

iGaming Business – The Bulgarian State Gambling Commission (SGC) has granted online gambling licences to gambling company Betfair and sports betting operator Eurofootball. From this week, the Betfair.bg website will be authorised to offer sports betting in addition to wagers on horse and dog racing. Betfair will also be able to offer online casino betting games in the country under the terms of its licence. In addition, Eurofootball has also been approved to offer online betting on sports, as well as horse and dog racing, via its Eurofootball.bg website. iGaming Business