Posts From: February 2018

The Stars Group Acquires Majority Interest in CrownBet

The Stars Group, has announced today that it has acquired a 62% equity interest in CrownBet Holdings Pty Limited for an aggregate amount of approximately $117.7 million. Unless otherwise noted, all...

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Sportsbet, Ladbrokes and bet365, file bids for William Hill Australia

William Hill’s future in Australia is expected to be known by the end of this week after takeover bids were tabled on Monday. The Australian Financial Review is reporting that four bids were forthcoming...

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Turnover up at Webis Holdings

Webis Holdings plc, operator of WatchandWager, has increased group turnover by 41.4% to US$ 209.30 million (2016: US$ 148.08 million) with gross profit increasing by 7.1% to US$ 2.22 million (2016: US$ 2.07 million)....

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DraftKings hires sean hurley as head of sportsbook

DraftKings, has announced Sean Hurley has been hired as the new Head of Sportsbook to help build, launch and drive the sports betting vertical at DraftKings. In this newly created...

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Scientific Games to Acquire a Majority Stake in EsysnetG to Enhance Bingo Offering

Scientific Games Corporation, has announced it has closed on the acquisition of a majority stake in E-SYS Techologia EM Informática S.A. (“EsysnetG”), a video bingo content studio based in Sao Paulo,...

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GIG enters partnership with Hong Kong based games studio D-Tech

Gaming Innovation Group, and its game provider subsidiary, GiG Games, are proud to announce a partnership with Hong Kong based games studio D-Tech, acquiring a 36% stake in D-Tech. This...

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Goliath casino goes live on Aspire Global’s platform

Goliath Casino is a new iGaming operator offering casino and sports betting from Aspire Global’s upgraded iGaming platform. The new operator will become one of the first partners to offer Sportsbook...

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Neds Goes Hands-free with Amazon Alexa

Neds has launched an Amazon Alexa Skill enabling voice commands for racing events on Amazon Echo devices – another exciting feature on an ever-growing list of innovations.   With this initial launch, Neds punters are now able to simply ask Alexa...

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Ireland’s GAA congress vote to ban betting companies as sponsors

GAA Congress today voted to outlaw the sponsorship of GAA activity by bookmakers and betting companies with immediate effect. The motion to ban “sponsorship by a betting company of any...

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Luckia wins Colombia’s eighth online gambling license

Luckia Colombia has obtained a concession contract with Coljuegos to operate online gambling, the first authorized operator of 2018, and  joins the seven already operating since 2017. Coljuegos revealed that on Wednesday it...

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