Independent.ie – GameAccount Network, the UK-based gambling software provider headed by Dermot Smurfit Jnr, has inked a deal to provide a simulated gaming website to the famous Yonkers racetrack and casino in New York.  GAN also announced that pre-tax profits hit £1.6m (€1.9m) last year compared to a loss of £1m (€1.2m) the year before, as net revenue rose 123pc to £12.3m (€15m). Expansion in the US remains a “strategic priority” for the group, said Mr Smurfit. Shares in the company, which floated on London’s Alternative Investment Market and Dublin’s Enterprise Securities Market last year, jumped 12pc in London yesterday…

From iGaming Business Global gaming supplier SHFL Entertainment Incorporated has announced that some of its most popular proprietary table games have been integrated onto the GameAccount Network online platform and are now taking real-money bets. Las Vegas-based SHFL Entertainment signed an agreement with GameAccount Global Limited in early-February to offer online versions of its Three Card Poker, Ultimate Texas Hold’Em and Fortune Pai Gow Poker to iGaming operators in the United Kingdom, Italy and Spain via the GameAccount Network and has since been waiting on the necessary regulatory approvals. “The go-live of our online games is a significant milestone for…

From iGaming Business Independent online gaming systems and software provider GameAccount Network has announced that its performance in the Italian slot and mobile iGaming markets has led it to post record first-quarter financial results. London-based GameAccount Network revealed that gross gaming revenues from Italy over the initial three months of 2013 increased by 170 percent year-on-year alongside a corresponding 273 percent rise in the numbers of active players. GameAccount Network stated that its first-quarter improvements were driven by ‘new product launches in Italy’s fast-growing regulated Internet gaming market and mobile gaming in various European markets’ while it posted a 110…