PARTNERING On Friday, Income Access announced a partnership with Genting Stanley Alderney to provide the gaming software provider with its affiliate programs.
According to Income Access, the affiliate marketing solutions provider, will provide Genting Stanley Alderney, a wholly owned subsidiary of Genting International, with affiliate marketing software for its consumer-facing brands, including CircusCasino, which will be the first of three brands to launch the software.
Additionally, Income Access announced the launch of its redesigned Web site.
“This site redesign is a reflection of our evolution as a company and our commitment to providing quality services to our affiliates and operators,” said Nicky Senyard, chief executive of Income Access, in a prepared statement.
TOUGH TIMES Bad weather conditions paired with a shaky economic outlook has caused the Irish horse racing industry to contract for the first time in 15 years, according to Horse Racing Ireland.
A statement released on Monday outlines the decline showing that bloodstock sales plummeted 44 percent in 2008, on-course betting turnover dropped 18 percent and betting via bookmaker fell by 21.5 percent.
Attendance, which fell nine percent last year, could be attributed cancellations. According to The Irish Times, cancellations due to weather more than tripled during 2008 at 42 compared to 12 just the year before.
Brian Kavanagh, chief executive of Horse Racing Ireland, issued the following caveat to industry members in his statement on the shrinking industry.
“With a range of cutbacks already in place for 2009 due to the reduction in our government funding, owners, trainers, breeders and all of the 16,500 people who rely on the industry for their employment will need to brace themselves for the tough times that lie ahead,” he said.
POLICING The Jakarta Post, a daily English language newspaper in Indonesia, reported that even though online gambling is “widespread” in Jambi, Indonesia, police say they lack the skills and hardware necessary to trace users.
"We have no special room for surfing to trace the user names and passwords of the gamblers," Eko Daniyanto, Jambi City Police chief, told the newspaper. ”The passwords change often. So we haven't been able to track them.”
Despite the challenges, the police chief told the paper that illegal gambling and lotteries remain a growing concern.
PLAYTECH AT ICEi With the 2009 International Gaming Expo only a few weeks away, Playtech Ltd. has announced what it has in store for ICEi, the remote gaming section within IGE.
The company, which supplies I-gaming software, said its recently launched play-for-real mode of its Italian poker network, iPoker.it, will be on display as well as EuroLive, the company’s European-facing live gaming platform. Additionally its broadcast gaming platform will be demonstrated live.
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