Monthly Archives: September 2016

Rising demand for chance games boosts South Korea’s lottery sales 6.9%

Lottery sales in South Korea continues to see a positive growth in the first half of 2016, thanks to rising demand for chance games in the country.

Quoting data compiled by the Ministry of Strategy and Finance, Yonhap News Agency reported that sales of lottery tickets reached KRW1.89 trillion (USD1.69 billion) in the first six months of the year—a 6.9 percent spike from the KRW1.77 trillion (USD1.58 billion) in the same period last year.

That figure makes up 50.3 percent of the government’s KRW3.76 trillion (USD3.35 billion) sales target for 2016, the ministry said.

Strong demand for online lotteries was the main factor in the overall growth. Government data showed that online lottery ticket sales in the country rose 8.2 percent to hit KRW1.74 trillion (USD1.55 billion) in the January-June period.

Fantasy Aces gobbles up Fantasy Feud’s DFS data base

With barely a week before the National Football League (NFL) kicks off, small daily fantasy sports (DFS) operators are consolidating its forces in order to give giants DraftKings and Fanduel a run for their money.

Small DFS operator Fantasy Aces announced on Wednesday that it has acquired certain active DFS participants in the database of Fantasy Feud Inc. (FFI), according to Yahoo! Finance.

Gaming Nation – parent company of FFI – will receive a cash payment of C$25,000 (US$19,076.25) in exchange for Aces’ direct access to its more than 35,000 participants in its database. The remainder of the purchase price, according to Fantasy Aces, will be paid in common shares of the company.

Data showed that Fantasy Aces and FFI have a combined gross revenue of US$1.15 million with game entries of 1.38 million and prize payouts of US$12.11 million.

Paysafe acquires affiliate technology provider Income Access

Income Access’ technology platform and 25,000+ affiliate network further enhance Paysafe’s product capabilities

Paysafe (LSE: PAYS.L, “Paysafe” or the “Group”), a leading global provider of payment solutions, announces today that it is expanding its product capabilities by acquiring Income Access Group (“Income Access”), a pioneering affiliate technology business for a cash consideration of CAD$40m (approximately US$30m1).

Income Access is a market-leading brand providing innovative affiliate technology for businesses to manage their performance marketing programmes. In addition, more than 25,000 affiliates use the company’s multi-channel software for their marketing campaigns.

Income Access was founded in 2002 and is based in Montreal with employees in Vancouver, London and Brisbane.

Paysafe acquires affiliate technology provider Income Access

Income Access’ technology platform and 25,000+ affiliate network further enhance Paysafe’s product capabilities

Paysafe (LSE: PAYS.L, “Paysafe” or the “Group”), a leading global provider of payment solutions, announces today that it is expanding its product capabilities by acquiring Income Access Group (“Income Access”), a pioneering affiliate technology business for a cash consideration of CAD$40m (approximately US$30m1).

Income Access is a market-leading brand providing innovative affiliate technology for businesses to manage their performance marketing programmes. In addition, more than 25,000 affiliates use the company’s multi-channel software for their marketing campaigns.

Income Access was founded in 2002 and is based in Montreal with employees in Vancouver, London and Brisbane.

CEEGC 2016 – Speaker profile – Paul Reilly with an amazing presentation on The SEO Arms Race – Artificial Intelligence competing with Artificial Intelligence

Thursday, September 1st 2016, Budapest – The organizers are proud to announce the newest confirmed speaker, Paul Reilly, who will be among the keynote speakers of the “Hot topics of the online gambling markets in Europe” panel at the Central and Eastern European Gaming Conference(CEEGC 2016) which will take place in Budapest at the Hilton City Budapest on the 20th of September 2016.

The presentation is a must attend for operators, software developers and all online gambling(igaming) oriented companies. Google Search have been training machine learning algorithms since as early as November 2012.  Deep neural networks, modeled loosely on the human brain, represent the new challenge for SEOs. Just how can modern SEOs compete with machine intelligence? Paul Reilly founder and CEO, Media Skunk Works provides a gentle introduction to machine learning before covering actual, “in-production” specifics on how machine learning and natural language processing is being used by today’s SEO pioneers to compete with machine intelligence.

Highlights:

• Two A.I. optimisations to safely increase scalability in link building.

CalvinAyre.com Featured Conferences & Events: September 2016

eCommerce Show Philippines

Now its second year, the eCommerce Show Philippines is the region’s largest dedicated event to eCommerce, innovation and technology, an industry growing at an exponential rate in the Philippines.

This event offers two days of conference sessions addressing key issues in the industry and an expo hall featuring over fifty exhibitors.  Delegates can expect to meet C-level execs, heads of eCommerce, strategy, marketing, loyalty and IT from retailers, manufacturers, eCommerce sites and start-ups from across the Philippines.

What: eCommerce Show Philippines