One Into Two Goes: Gentoo Media Completes Legal Split
Gentoo Media–formerly Gaming Innovation Group Inc.–has announced the completion of its legal restructuring, officially separating its Media and Platform divisions into two…
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Throw That Man A Bone, Gambling Commission Grill Dowden Over Betting Scandal
Newly-knighted former deputy prime minister Oliver Dowden, late of this parish, has been hauled in for questioning by the UK Gambling Commission…
The Parallax View: Flutter’s Audacious US$5 Billion Share Buy-back
Better and better, leading-edge Flutter Entertainment has just launched an audacious US$5 billion share buy-back programme that may well supercharge its bid…
Más y Menos For Spanish iGaming In Q2
With former world No. 1 golfer Jon Rahm, both men and women as reigning European football champions and the quadruple grand slam…
PENN Entertainment In A Pickle With A Failing ESPN BET In Q2
It was “The Move” that was supposed to bust booming U.S. online sports betting wide open, but PENN Entertainment’s one-dollar peppercorn divestiture…
Futures Imperfect, CFTC Derivatives Watchdog Looks To Ban Gambling On U.S. Presidential Election
To most of us America’s Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is a little known financial watchdog, if known at all. But it…
Heading South, Rocky Mountains Too High For Betsson
The Hyper-aggressive, super-expensive U.S. sports betting market that has seen a slew of tyros retreat in recent months has now done for…
Entain Set To Get Another Beating For Turkey Bribery Losses
Perhaps in keeping with the U.K.’s current political and economic ethos, as articulated by the nation’s new Labour ruling classes, “that things…
Bagpipes and Fiddles, Football Continues To Bet With Its Future
While anti-gambling activists north of the border are gagging on their haggis, following the news that blue chip William Hill is to…
Reporting Big Q2 Growth, Better Collective Plays Merry Financial Tune
Leading iGaming media outfit Better Collective has reported an impressive 27 percent increase in revenue for its Q2, ending June 30, hitting…
Flutter Entertainment Opens Strategic Development Centre in India
Flutter Entertainment has officially opened its new Global Capability Centre in Hyderabad, India. Situated in RMZ Spire within Knowledge City, one of…
Special Report: Triads And The Art Of Macau Money Washing
China’s ruling Communist party has long had an ambivalent–if not schizophrenic–obsession with gambling. Across this vast Asian superpower gambling is technically legal…
Tomorrow Is Another Day, evoke Predicts In Soon Come H1
Tomorrow is another day hopes global, but stalled, iGaming heavy-hitter evoke–owner of storied betting brands William Hill, 888 and Mr Green–in its…
The World A-Flutter With Omnichannel’s Outstanding Q2
Powered by outstanding U.S. performance, and a confidence reflected in a latter-day Latin buying spree, Flutter Entertainment has reported a 20 percent…
Just As Jette Ordered, Euro Expansion Saves Entain Blushes In H1
They say a prophet has no honour in their own land but if there’s one unemployed former top level CEO smiling today…
Their Cheatin’ Odds: bet365 Sanctioned Half-a-Million Dollars
In a rare misstep, iGaming pathfinder bet365–the world’s richest privately-owned gambling company–has been sanctioned US$519,000 (£407,834) by an American regulator for ripping…
EBITDA Down, DraftKings Plans US$1 Billion Share Repurchase In Q2
DraftKings has published its financial results for Q2 2024, announcing a US$100 million-plus reduction in annual Adjusted EBITDA guidance and a US$1…
Taking GAAP Quarter, Loss Is More For Caesars Entertainment As Shares Surge On Digital-driven Q2
Recording a nominal loss in a digital-driven quarter, shares in Caesars Entertainment surged by over four percent on the NASDAQ yesterday when…
BetMGM Retains Bronze Medal In H1 Fiscal Olympics
BetMGM, America’s third-placed fantasy sports betting and iGaming operator behind leaders FanDuel and DraftKings, retained its bronze medal winning fiscal slot in…
Kiss Kiss, Bong Bong Asia Gaming On A Boom And A Roll
Amid the frenzied gambling boom in the vast Southeast Asia and East Asia regions, Philippines President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jnr. has declared…
Kindred Kicks Back With Rock Steady H1
Bright sportsbook performance, boosted by Euro ’24, helped iGaming heavy-hitter Kindred salve the wounds of its U.S. market exit and deliver a…
He’s The One: Veteran Gavin Isaacs Chosen CEO By Troubled Entain
Gambling industry veteran Gavin Isaacs has been chosen as the new CEO of troubled British betting leviathan, Entain. And with world money…
Boosted By LatAm And Beautiful Game Betsson On H1 Roll
Boosted by sterling H1 performances in Latin America and stellar football-fuelled trading in late Q2, Swedish-origin Omnichannel Betsson is on a roll….
Coming To A Galaxy Near You, Evolution Forges Growth And Dividends In H1
Amid strategic market expansion, B2B Live Casino provider Evolution has reported a significant 16 percent surge in operating revenues to just over…
Leaving Its Troubles Behind, evoke Evokes Stability In H1 Update
evoke–the troubled U.K. gambling Omnichannel formerly known as 888 Holdings–has released a H1 Trading Update, for the six-months ending June 30, which…
Hong Kong Sets Record £2.8bn Turnover For China Racing Season
The Hong Kong Jockey Club (HKJC) has had its best ever end-of-racing-season finale, with a final 2023/24 turnover of some HKD28.8 billion…
Euros ‘24: Glad All Over But Is Football Finally Coming Home?
Euros ‘24, after 58-years of hurt, and at times humiliation, what are the odds of football finally returning home to the country…
It’s Right Said Betfred, Posting Record FY23
British origin Omnichannel Betfred has posted record Full Year 2023 revenue of £577 million (US$747.71m), thanks to its astute acquisition of a…
And Then There Were 15, Shuffling The Pack Labour Appoints Lisa Nandy New Gambling Overlord
It may have been a decisive, stonking, victory for Britain’s Labour Party but for the nation’s unsettled betting industry, victim of stop-start…
UK Elections: The Final Countdown, Change Is Coming
The result, as every bookie and pundit is pretty keen to point out, is a foregone conclusion. But as millions of Britons…
UK Election Special: Gambling On One Last Roll Of The Tumbling Political Dice
As England football fans have just recently been reminded to their delight and astonishment, it ain’t over until the Bellingham rings. Or…
In The Beginning: Pioneer, Impact, Legend, 30-years of Microgaming
Compared to many tech or entertainment sectors, iGaming is still a relatively young industry. Yet, as the digital online gambling industry matures…
Playing Russian Roulette, Allwyn Rolls Over UK Lottery
At the end of this month, some two-years after first facing accusations of being a business lackey of Vladimir Putin, the billionaire…
(Don’t) Make Mine A Mafia With Illicit Toppings
On perfect cue; following an authoritative report stating that some three-quarters of online GGR In New York State is generated by nefarious…
ESPN BET Ripped By Back Investor Revolt At Parent PENN Entertainment
There’s a shoot-out at the U.S. fantasy sports factory today as ESPN BET, putative rival of FanDuel and DraftKings, is ripped by…
Bad Company: Illegal Online Gambling Marches On In USA
Even after the 2018 repeal of the contentious Federal PASPA ban, which signalled the start of legal online sports betting; the Bad…
New York, New York It’s A Wonderful Town, Flutter Forges New American Identity
Last day of the month, first day of a new era, Flutter Entertainment has accelerated its transition to a U.S.-centric Omnichannel by…
What’s In A Name? 888 Holdings Seeking To Evoke Past Glories
What’s in a name? Not very much, when this rhetorical question was first posed some 400-years-ago. But today, far changed, when image…
DraftKings Hits The US$750m Jackpocket
Fantasy sports and iGaming royalty DraftKings has hit the jackpot by completing its US$750 million (£589.21m) acquisition of leading US lottery app,…
Better Collective Reports Strong Future Proofing Q1 Performance
Swedish-origin Super Affiliate Better Collective has delivered a future proofing Q1, with revenue surging eight percent, year-on-year, to €95 million (£80.1m) in…
SPECIAL REPORT: Gambling’s Odds In India
India has 10,000 Gods. And each one, they say, has 400 avatars. Thus imagine the betting permutations in this amazing world, both…
Slots In The Arm, Ailing Retail Vertical Given Major Debit Card Booster
The retail Slots sector, under growing pressure from its digital avatars, has been given a massive boost by a UK government proposal…
IGT Delivers Steady-as-she-goes Q1
Leading back-end iGaming supplier IGT, International Game Technology, has released its financial results for the first quarter ending March 31, 2024. IGT’s…
Playing With Fire, Flutter Gets Burned By Fox Option In Q1
Like his “Lord of The Rings” movie director namesake, Flutter CEO Peter Jackson has built quite an entertainment franchise; but also, like…
Pontus Lindwall Exclusive: Betsson’s Wings Over The Americas
Bouyed by perhaps the best financial quarter in its storied gambling history, Betsson’s long-standing CEO, iGaming legend Pontus Lindwall, graciously offered our…
‘Get On Yer Bike’…And Follow The Leader, Betsson’s Pontus Lindwall
Arguably there’s only one place that Pontus Lindwall would rather be than in the hotseat at surging Swedish-origin gambling company Betsson and…
Loss Is More For Hard-charging US Sportsbook DraftKings in Q1
Despite ending the quarter with a nominal net loss of US$142.6 million (£114.04m), hard-charging US sportsbook DraftKings has delivered a spectacular Q1…
Savouring Entain At Bay, MGM’s Hornbuckle Posts Ominous Q1
As Big Bill Hornbuckle, CEO and President of MGM Resorts International, looks out of his penthouse office suite at 3600 Las Vegas…
Betsson Hits All-time High in Q1
Nordic home markets and volatile Argentina aside, Swedish origin Omnichannel Betsson hit an all-time high in Q1, ending March 31. “[Our] first…
Put The Champagne On Ice But Don’t Pour As Kindred Group Release Q1
In what’s promising to be a transformational year, Swedish-origin Kindred Group–currently the target of a €2.5 billion (£2.14bn/US$2.68bn) takeover bid by French…