‘Geography - Africa’ Archives
Nigeria Deal For GTech
Leading gaming technology and services firm GTech Corporation has signed an agreement with Nigeria’s National Sports Lottery (NSL) for the implementation of an online lottery in the African nation. The deal will see Providence-based GTech replace NSL’s existing central system for the operation of its lottery games and assist with the [...]
Poker Tops Lycos 2008 List
For the third year in a row, the word ‘poker’ was the most searched for term over the Internet according to search engine Lycos and its Top 50 Search Terms For 2008. The word generated five percent more search activity than billionaire heiress and celebrity Paris Hilton to head the list and was the only gambling term to even make the top [...]
iGaming Business Unveils Industry’s Most Influential Leaders
Leading industry trade publication iGaming Business has announced that its November/December issue features the results of its iGB Aces poll of the 40 most influential figures in the sector today. As part of the process of nomination, iGaming Business stated that it sought the views and opinions of a cross-section of the industry to determine [...]
Mobile Gaming Set To Grow
According to a recent report from Juniper Research, a sea-change in operator attitudes towards mobile gambling services is one key that is expected to push total annual wagers via mobile telephones to more than $27.5 billion by 2013. According to the Basingstoke-based research firm, other factors include improvements to handset user interfaces [...]
Forecast: Could Global Gaming Bounce Back Stronger?
Like numerous analysts, Simon J. Holliday, director of H2 Gambling Capital, has had to reconfigure financial forecasts for the global gaming industry due to the unfortunate economic hand that's been dealt to typically one of the most resilient industries. But even though the numbers illustrate land-based growth slowing in 2009 and 2010, he [...]
